My team-mate John Bibbo did a great job handing over to me a scratch less car (which was not easy at this race). Unfortunately during our driver change we went a lap down to the field. I knew I had a long race ahead of me and tried to play it smart. Setting very quick constant lap times and using every last drop of gas in the tank helped me slowly gain back some of the lost track position.

At a track so narrow and slow, passing was tough. Because of this there was a large amount of car to car contact.

Unfortunately, the officials mistook my car for being involved in an incident and because of this I was forced to serve a stop and go penalty. As frustrating as it was, knowing that I was innocent, I kept a cool head to finish 13th overall.

All in all the #40 TRG 997 of John Bibbo and Scott Schroeder had a frustrating yet successful weekend.

The whole TRG crew did a great job giving me a good car that was fast even in the closing laps of the race.

I had some friends and family come from far to watch this race and I would like to thank them for coming.

I look forward to the next race at Laguna, John Bibbo and I are both very strong there and we expect to do well.

-scott

Just arrived at the new Iowa speedway and right off the truck all the TRG cars are quick.

15 min into the first practice session I put the #40 TRG 997 in 2nd position and ended the session P3.

The 2nd practice session of the day was the near the same finishing the session 6th.

With a goal to do a 49 second lap time in mind, we sent the car out on fresh tires for the last session. However, I would have to settle for a 50.4 and P2 when I got out of the car. We have all stepped up our game and the results show it. I look forward to the race tomorrow and to being on the top of charts.

- scott schroeder

Hello, This weekend I will be reporting daily on how the round #2 weekend from homestead is going. First update should be Friday evening. -scott