 posted on March 28, 2010 |
| 4 WIDE PARADE LAPS SUCK |
| The 4 wide parade laps got us again, for the fourth time DJ cut a tire on the parade lap having to run on the outside. This time he knew it was going down on the first lap and by lap 3 it was flat. DJ finished 2nd in the heat race and was fast in the warm up laps for the feature, were he started 6th. We will get it soon, we are 13th in points for the year and are working hard to get that first win. Thanks to DJ, Skip, Billy and Chase for there hard work at the track and shop, the car looked great and ran fast. |
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| posted on March 23, 2010 |
| 5th place at Pensacola |
| 5th place at Pensacola after starting 14th in the feature we had a fast car and going to the front until the red flag at lap 13. The leaders had a chance to cool there tire and we lost our advantage we had with our tire management early in the race. We did move up to the back of 3rd and 4th place cars before the checker flag flew. Looking forward to Desoto this weekend. |
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| posted on February 14, 2010 |
| Finished 2nd after Rebuild on Car |
| DJ led 24 0f the 30 lap race, then the car went loose and he finished 2nd to Bo Hartley. The night started with the car having been rebuilt from the wreck at Citrus County Speedway. Small problems kept us from practice and we finished 3rd in the heat race with a fuel leak. We tried some new thing in shocks and air pressure and they paid off with a strong 2nd place finish. |
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| posted on November 15, 2009 |
| FINISHED 5TH WITH FLAT REAR |
| CITRUS SPEEDWAY WAS A GOOD AND BAD NIGHT FOR DJ AND THE CREW. VED ENGINES GAVE US THE POWER TO WIN THE HEAT RACE GOING AWAY AND SAVED US IN THE FEATURE WHEN THE LEFT REAR GOT A PINHOLE LEAK AND OPENED THE STAGGER UP 1 1/2 INCHES AND THE CAR WENT LOOSE ON DJ. THANKS TO GO-15. DAVE VASELENUICK AND THE CREW FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKENDS AND A GREAT START FOR NEXT YEAR. |
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| posted on November 09, 2009 |
| FINISH A STRONG 3RD PLACE |
| DVE ENGINES ROCK GREAT JOB DAVE, DJ STARTED 3RD MOVED TO 2ND PLACE ON LAP 2 AND THEN WENT FOR THE LEAD ON LAP 3 BUT HAD TO BACK OFF GOING INTO TURN ONE THEN HAD A BOLT BROKE ON THE STEERING BRACKET ON THE SPINDLE ALLOWING THE TOE IN TOE OUT TO CHANGE. NO MATTER WHAT AJUSTMENTS DJ MADE THE CAR WAS GOING FROM LOOSE TO TIGHT. WE DID NOT FIND THE PROBLEM UNTIL WE GOT BACK TO THE SHOP ON MONDAY. WE WILL TRY AGAIN THIS SATURDAY AT CITRUS FOR OUR FIRST WIN. THANKS TO THE CREW MARK, RYAN, SKIP AND BILL THEY WORKED HARD AND THE CAR WAS LOOKED GREAT ON AND OFF THE TRACK. |
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| posted on November 07, 2009 |
| THIRD IN HEAT RACE |
| QUALIFIED 9TH AT A 13.71 WITH TROY DECAIRE AT A 13.10, THE CAR HAD A PUSH IN TURE 4 AND DJ LAP TIME WAS OFF DUE TO NOT BEING ABLE TO GET BACK THE GAS IN TURN 4.
THE HEAT RACE WE STARTED 4TH THE ON THE OUTSIDE AND FINISHED 3RD, THE LAP TIMES WERE WITHIN .15 OF A SECOND TO THE FAST TIME FROM ALL COMPETITORS WITH OUR WARM UP LAPS AS FAST AS ANYONE ELSE.
I WILL UPDATE TOMORROW AFTER THE RACES. |
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| posted on September 30, 2009 |
| Car is Fast at Desoto |
| The new engine and setup on the car was fast at Desoto, but a valve head broke on the #2 cylinder from a part failure. The motor will be back in 2 weeks and we will test at Desoto before going to Concord. |
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| posted on May 05, 2009 |
| New Motor On The Way |
| We have had some time off and the new motor will be here soon thanks to Dave Vaselenuick of VED Engine Development, DJ has reworked the links and we will have a new radical setup on the car for some testing. Many thanks to Clyde Booth for his input into the aero and suspension. |
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| posted on May 05, 2009 |
| New Motor On The Way |
| We have had some time off and the new motor will be here soon thanks to Dave Vaselenuick of VED Engine Development, DJ has reworked the links and we will have a new radical setup on the car for some testing. Many thanks to Clyde Booth for his input into the aero and suspension. |
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| posted on June 12, 2008 |
| Best Finish This Year at Orlando |
| Well we just finshed 3 races in the last 2 weeks, with good results. Saturday at Desoto Speedway we won the heat race and finished 4th to Larry Brazil in the feature. Then the next weekends Friday night we were at Orlando Speedway we won the heat race and finish 2nd to Wayne Reutaman. Wayne started on the pole and DJ started 6th by lap 6 DJ had reeled him in nad hounded him for the rest of the race. Saturday night we went to New Symrna Speedway were we were 3rd in the heat race and finish 7th after running low on fuel with 2 lap to go losing 2 positions. DJ has moved into 11th Place in Points just 4 out of 10th and 54 out of 6th Place. Next race is June 21st at Desoto Speedway see you there. |
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| posted on January 27, 2008 |
| GETTING READY FOR 2008 |
| As the first race of 2008 is fastly approaching Driver DJ Hoelzle and the Speedcraft racing team are making final preparations for the first race of the year. DJ is looking forward to the start of a new year and a run at the 2008 TBARA Sprint car championship title. The first race will be held at Citrus County Speedway on Saturday, February 9th. The following two nights February 10th and 11th, the team will make the journey to the east coast to take on the high banks of New Smyrna Speedway as part of the 2008 World Series of Asphalt. We look forward to seeing you at one of these dates. |
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| posted on September 01, 2007 |
| Heat Win Then Trouble |
| DJ set fast time in winning the Heat raceand started 5th in the feature. On the start the 55 car did not start in front of DJ and held him up then going into the first turn he stopped. DJ hit his front wheel on the 55 rear bumper and knocked the toe out. The car was a hand full after that, these car are so sensitve to any change. We are at NSS for Saturday night but it starting to rain, not good. |
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| posted on August 25, 2007 |
| Great Run at New Symrna |
| DJ had a great night at New Symrna Speedway finishing 2nd to Dave Steele. DJ lead the first 15 Laps but was held up by lap traffic and Dave got a run off turn 2 to pass DJ. DJ put alot of time on the chassis prior to this race and it paid off. He went to Orlando Speedway for a demonstration run for the fans on the following Friday and got within a tenth of the track record on the 6th lap. We are looking forward to the race at Orlando on August 31 then the following night at NSS, See You At The Track |
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| posted on May 17, 2007 |
| 2nd At Desoto Speedway |
| It's been the year of the rookies and young guns this season in the Tampa Bay Area Racing Association. After nine races of the 24-race schedule, Tampa's Troy DeCaire, 19, and in his third year on the circuit, is the only driver this season to have won three events. Rookie points leader Brian Gingras, 32, from Winter Haven, had his first TBARA win at Bronson Motor Speedway in May. Steven Darvolics, 20, in his sophomore season out of Venice, got his first feature win at the last visit to DeSoto Super Speedway. The third visit to DeSoto's high banks on Saturday night saw rookie D.J. Hoelzle, 31, from Dunedin, start outside the front row after winning Heat Two. Hoelzle is a past Open Wheel Modified champion at the track. He got the jump on polesitter Tommy Nichols of Tampa and was the class of the field in the early going. Meanwhile, current points leader DeCaire started outside row six in 12th and made a bold move, high and outside, to move forward five spots at the drop of the green. He then patiently picked off cars to chase down Hoelzle. Taking the lead near halfway, DeCaire looked unstoppable. Lapped traffic would be the downfall of the fast-moving youngster as his front bumper hooked the rear bar of Michael Smith's car. Both drivers went spinning off Turn Two and had to go to the rear of the field. DeCaire managed to make the best of the situation, moving back up to a seventh-place finish. Danny "The Hammer" Martin, 20, of Sarasota, used the caution to roll up behind Hoelzle, who had inherited the lead. Martin, a regular on the O'Reilly United Sprint Car Series, pulled alongside Hoelzle out of Turn Four as the two drivers went under the white flag after the final restart. Martin beat Hoelzle into Turn One, taking the lead, and never looking back. He would win the event but did major damage to the car when the throttle stuck wide open under the checkered flag and he hammered the wall. "That was a great race from where I was sitting," said a smiling Martin in Victory Circle without his car. "The damage is bad, but it's still a great win." Rounding out the top five behind Martin, Hoelzle and Nichols were Dude Teate in fourth and Stan Butler in fifth. Hoelzle tried everything to win his first TBARA event. "I knew I had a problem early, as the car tightened up each lap," he said. "I used the cockpit adjusters to put all the weight into it I could and brought the wing as far forward as possible, but we found a tiny hole in the left rear and only 2.7 pounds of pressure was left at the end.""We have had seven different winners in nine races now," TBARA president Don Rehm said after Saturday night's DeSoto Speedway event. "The shows are getting better and returning to several tracks more this year than in years past seems to be working with the fans." The next outing for the TBARA will be at New Smyrna Speedway on June 2. It will return to the Tampa area on June 23 for another visit to DeSoto Super Speedway. Visit TBARA.com for more Florida dates and 2007 information. |
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| posted on February 13, 2007 |
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| DJ had a good and bad luck start to the season, he ran well at the Citrus race put just missed the feature by one spot. We learned alot about how the races are run and the effort needed to run the TBARA Series. Saturday we moved to New Smyrna Speedway were we had a good practice session and got the car up to speed. The first heat race we started last and moved up to 7th one spot out of the transfer spot. So we had to run the B Main, DJ started on the Pole and set fast time 15.73 and won the B Main. He had to start the Feature last due to the rookie rules and we got involved in a first lap wreck and the car was wreck badly. We will have to miss the next race but we will be back as soon as possible. We would like to thank everyone that helped this weekend on and off the track. |
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| posted on December 28, 2006 |
| Testing the new car at Desoto |
| Well DJ did it again, he had the new car in the mid 12 second lap time the first time out in the car. That we have been told is 1 tenth off the track record. DJ said the car has more in it and the crew was excited about the test. We also have the same crew back since the 2001 Championship plus 2 new additions. The plan is to test 2 more times before the start of the year. The First of these test will to get the car more comfortable and fine tune the handling of the car. Test the changes in the wing locations and springs. Then test different shock setups in the last test at Desoto. |
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| posted on December 28, 2006 |
| New Car |
| We just picked up the new Car from Lenny with Classic Corvette of Tampa. The Car won 10 races in 2006 and sat on the pole for the Little Indy 500 in Indiana with dave Steel driving. The car came right off two win at Desoto and Citrus Speedways. We will be testing at Desoto and will let you know how we did. This will be DJ's first quality ride in a long time, and we look forward to a good year in 2007. We would like to thank Lenny for great job of building a great car. |
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| posted on April 06, 2006 |
| Lakeland Test & Race |
| September race has been cancaled because of the hurricane, USAR is going to try and reschedule next week. We had a great test on Monday and was 3 tenth of a second faster than the last race in which were were fastest in practice and 7th in qualifing. This is our last race for 2004 and we hope that it does get rescheduled. |
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| posted on April 06, 2006 |
| DJ WINS LAPS THE FIELD |
| DJ HAD A GREAT START AND LAPPED THE FIELD IN THE 30 MINUTE RACE AT ROEBLING ROAD SAVANNAH, GA. THE OTHER 3 FASTER CLASSES WERE ALSO LAPPED BY DJ, THE NEW KART IS JUST PLAIN FAST WITH THE MODIFICATIONS THAT DJ DID TO THE COOLING SYSTEM AND AERO. |
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| posted on April 06, 2006 |
| DJ NASCAR Busch Licences |
| DJ recieved his NASCAR Busch licence last week , he has been approved to run 1 mile flat tracks and down. He plans on running enough races this year so he can run for rookie of the year in 2006. Engineous USA will be our sponsor for this effort and we will know more later in the year. We look forward to a great relationship and helping bring this product line to the attention of the public. |
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| posted on April 06, 2006 |
| Roebling Road WIN |
| DJ WON the Savannah, GA race with Gary Long 125 Shifty Kart after a bad start. He went on to set fast lap of the race and grab the win in his second start in this Kart. He will be running the WKA race in Kershaw, SC March 19 and 20th. |
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| posted on April 06, 2006 |
| Daytona 125 Gearbox Kart |
| DJ was invited by Gary Long to run in the 125 Gearbox World Championships at Daytona International Speedway. DJ started next to last due to the late entry, he had not lost his touch by the end of the first lap he was half way to the front when the left front tire went flat. He had not been a kart in 6 years and he said it would not be that long again, like Roebling Road in Savanah, Ga in early February. The speedway has been changed alot since last year all new garages and infield. |
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| posted on April 06, 2006 |
| Hurricane & SEMA Show |
| Due to Hurricane Frances, the race has been canceled and will not be rescheduled in 2004. We are looking forward to next year and running for rookie of the year in the ProCup Series. Our new equipment and setups will give us a great advantage over this year. DJ will be at the Vegas SEMA show in November. He will be highlighted in 2-1 hour shows of Meet the Celebrity @ the Engineous Oil Booth. |
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| posted on April 06, 2006 |
| Lakeland Testing & Race |
| DJ just tested at Lakeland for the June 5, 2004 race and was fast with the new engine from Dave. USAR Procup changed the right side tire to a harder compound and we use the test to make changes to our chassis setup. We came up with a setup for the long runs of the race and are looking forward to a great race. We were the fastest car in practice on race day and qualified 7th 18 off the pole in DJ's 3rd start in a ProCup car. DJ was 8th with 30 laps to go when we had a tube come loose and started to cut the left front tire, by the time we replaced the tire and removed the tube we were 3 laps down. We finished 15th with only slight right front fender damage to the car. Luke Hill's pit crew pitted the car for us and we all thank them for there help. See you at the races on September 4 at Lakeland |
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| posted on April 06, 2006 |
| New Symrna Race |
| DJ was one of the fastest car in practice for the New Symrna race, when in the 3rd practice he put his ear plug in and within 15 seconds he felt very sick and had to get out of the car. The ear plug had been setting on the dash and had become very hot, the temp of the plugs burned his inter ear canal giving him vertigo. The paramedics and the doctor said it would go away in a few days. DJ said he would try to qualify and then run one lap for the points, he qualified 2 tenths of second off the pole in 13th place, his best qualifying attempt in a Hooters Car. Then about 30 minutes before the race the feel a lot better and was going to attempt to run the whole race. Lap 88 DJ was 14th with the lead pack when the vertigo came back, he pulled in to the pits and called it a night with the car having no damage for the second race in a row. The team and DJ will be more careful about DJ's Gear, like keep the driver cool as possible. We will run 4-24-04 in Concord, NC at the BF Goodrich Tires 250 Hooters ProCup Race. The motor is going up to Dave's for a rebuild and we plan on testing at Concord before the race. See you at the races. |
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