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Casey Neal Makes Skip Barber Debut
Middletown, Ohio (March 21) – Casey Neal, started his first
professional car race this past weekend at the 12 Hours of Sebring, in Sebring, Fl.. Casey was racing in
the Skip Barber National Championship series race with American Le Mans Series
(ALMS).
Neal, at 16 comes out of the Snap-On Stars of Karting
and World Karting Associations` Manufactures Cup ranks and has all of two R/T
2000 races under his belt; a Saturday/Sunday Regional Race at Laguna Seca, in
December.
He'd not seen Sebring's historic 3.7 miles until this
past Tuesday. Showing remarkable skill for someone with so little experience and
in a Spring thunder storm, the Skip Barber National rookies` best lap had him
second on the grid for his season-opening Round One.
Key moment: Gerardo Bonilla (#54) beat
Casey Neal (#94) into Turn One on the re-start. Moments later, Neal overcooked
Turn 10 trying to pass Bonilla for the lead and the win allowing Matt Varsha
into P2. Neal finished P3
Casey ran a solid race finishing third
(P3), though it was shortened due to a four car wreck on the front straight, the
racing was very tight in the rain.
Casey ran most of the race in second, but a miscue on the last lap while
challenging eventual race winner Gerardo Bonilla for the race lead allowed a fellow driver to
get by for P2. The event began in the rain and ended in the rain for race one.
Casey said after the race “Not bad for my first car race and I had the best time I've ever had racing.
Racing cars is just too cool and in the rain, this is fun”.
Race two stared out with Transmission trouble in
qualifying and Casey only qualified thirteenth (P13). For the start of race two,
with the transmission now repaired, Casey went to the inside of the long
straight and passed six cars,
coming out of turn one in sixth place. Six turns later Casey had passed four
more drivers for third place but coming out of turn eight Casey's car lost power
with a computer problem and his day was for all purposes --- over.
“WOW this better than I thought it would be, and these guys:
Gerardo and Matt, they raced me hard but clean, they are a lot fun to race with.
I have a ton of stuff to learn about going from karts to cars, but I cant wait
till the next race” Neal said after
a weekend of
bad weather, some tough luck and fierce competition.
Casey will be racing the next Skip Barber National
Championship race at VIR in April 22-24
Press Release for Casey Neal
Jarvis, Cohen and Steinberg
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