SNOHOMISH, Washington — With two top-5 finishes in his first two career starts on the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Gary Lewis sees this weekend’s visit to the twists and turns of Miller Motorsports Park as a potential win for Midgley Motorsports.
“We are really looking forward to this road course race,” Lewis said.
“It’s an art form that I think I’m pretty good at so with any luck hopefully we can get the No. 09 SEFNCO Communications Chevrolet in the winner’s circle.”
In his three prior chances behind the wheel of Canadian Dick Midgley’s Chevrolet an understanding of how the car would respond was a given. This Sunday’s race marks the first time that Midgley and Lewis are going to do battle with their road course car.
“I really don’t know anything about the car itself. I do know that Dick and I have spent a bunch of time on the phone going over different things about this race car so we’re prepared,” Lewis noted. “I know that Dick and his guys have worked very hard on this car for many months and after talking with him I can tell he’s excited about what the car could do.”
Over the course of his illustrious career Lewis has been able to adapt quickly to a new race track. Facing that as he heads to Miller Motorsports Park, Lewis will have help waiting for him when he arrives.
“All I know about Miller is that it’s a flat-track course and that it’s in Utah,” he said. “I have a buddy, Dustin Dudley, that races this track all the time and he’s flying up to give me some advice as we’ll have very little practice time (one and half hours total) for this event.”
For the first time in many seasons Lewis has made less then 10 starts in a race car as the month of September got underway. With that said those starts have resulted in a fourth Montana 200 victory, a win in the Best of the West Tundra 125, a runner-up finish in the Idaho 200, continued dominance at Pacific Raceway’s NOS Energy Drink Road Course Challenge with his third win in as many seasons, a top-10 in the ASA Transcontinental race in South Africa and two top-5 finishes in the K&N Pro Series West.
Those accomplishments have Lewis confident in his performances as the season draws closer to a conclusion.
“I think for what we have done with all the different tracks, cars and series that we have done a great job. Our worst finish was in South Africa with that sixth place finish and we led most of the race over there that day. We also learned a lot this year and that will help us to grow and be better.”
Once Sunday’s race concludes Lewis will have two races left in his season, he added.
“We plan to run (Yakima Speedway’s) Fall Classic and the (NASCAR K&N Pro Series West) Phoenix race left in our plans for now. We also have big plans for 2011 but this is racing and it’s a tough business so only time will tell. Hopefully bigger track stuff is to come for us.”
Fans can keep up with Gary Lewis Racing on their Facebook page or by logging onto www.garylewisracing.com NASCAR’s Home Track section of nascar.com will provide race day updates of Sunday’s stop at Miller Motorsports Park.
