Fittipaldi gets first ever NASCAR Late Model Win at Fall Brawl
10-01-2012 – Lee Faulk Racing and it’s youngest driver, Pietro Fittipaldi have been inching closer and closer to that elusive first victory of the season. With one race left on the schedule, everything came together and the team pulled off what may be the biggest win the the history of Lee Faulk Racing.
The Fall Brawl is an annual 200 lap event held at the end of the regular season that sees many big name drivers come to try and capture the trophy. Rain would cancel most of practice on Friday and Saturday of the event this past weekend, forcing teams to go straight to qualifying mode. Fittipaldi would qualify 5th in the 22 car field with a time of 15.407.
This was a decent effort and it would not take long for Pietro to make his move to the front.
“The first 100 laps we were just trying to work our way into position and save our left side tires the best we could knowing we would get two new right sides at the halfway break.” Michael Faulk said of the game plan this past Saturday.
At halfway, Fittipaldi had moved from 5th into the 3rd position. David Garbo Jr. and Austin McDaniel traded the lead back and fourth in the first one hundred laps as well as the first 30 laps of the second segment. (more…)
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