{"id":1335,"date":"2010-04-27T14:25:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T14:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2010-04-27T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T14:25:02","slug":"fluke-engine-problem-ruins-owens%e2%80%99-day-at-talladega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/upcoming-events\/fluke-engine-problem-ruins-owens%e2%80%99-day-at-talladega\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluke Engine Problem Ruins Owens\u2019 Day at Talladega"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>TALLADEGA, Ala. (April 25, 2010) \u2013 Alli Owens\u2019 efforts to improve on last season\u2019s sixth-place performance at Talladega Superspeedway went up in smoke midway through the ARCA 250. After running inside the top-10 for the majority of the event, the No. 15\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/electrifyingcareers.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/electrifyingcareers.com\/\">ElectrifyingCareers.com<\/a>\u00a0Chevy with support from IBEW Local Union 136 lost power and left Owens unable to finish the event.\u00a0 Owens finished a disappointing 32<sup>nd<\/sup>-place.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Owens\u2019 game plan was simple &#8211; stick to the yellow line and move to the front one position at a time.\u00a0 The strategy couldn\u2019t have worked any better.\u00a0 Owens climbed from 11<sup>th<\/sup>-place starting position into sixth-place before relinquishing her position to pit lap 24. The\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/electrifyingcareers.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/electrifyingcareers.com\/\">ElectrifyingCareers.com<\/a>\u00a0Chevy was tight exiting the corners, so crew chief Jeff McClure called for a wedge adjustment, in addition to a routine four-tire stop. Following service Owens returned to the track in 22<sup>nd<\/sup>-place.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Back on the track, Owens picked up where she left off. She shot into 17<sup>th<\/sup>-place on lap 38 and showed no signs of slowing down. On lap 40, without warning, Owens\u2019 car lost power. She coasted into the pits, where her crew lifted the hood and did a preliminary inspection of the engine. The examination revealed that a tube leading to the evaporation chamber had cracked and allowed the water to drain from the radiator. Unfortunately the damage was terminal and Owens had to retire early from the event.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u201cIt\u2019s a shame that we couldn\u2019t finish the event because our car was really good today,\u201d said Owens.\u00a0 \u201cI was just taking my time, not really pushing it too hard.\u00a0 I was waiting until the last few laps of the race before I started to become more aggressive.\u00a0 Unfortunately our engine let go.\u00a0 It was such a freak thing that happened. I\u2019ve never seen one of those tubes break like that before. I guess that\u2019s just our luck. I\u2019m really proud of my team for all the hard work they put into this weekend.\u00a0 It\u2019s too bad that we didn\u2019t get a better finish that reflects how good this car really was. We won\u2019t let this keep us down.\u00a0 Venturini Motorsports prepares great cars week-in and week-out and we\u2019ll get \u2018em next race.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TALLADEGA, Ala. (April 25, 2010) \u2013 Alli Owens\u2019 efforts to improve on last season\u2019s sixth-place performance at Talladega Superspeedway went up in smoke midway through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}