Jezarian Runs MARRS 6

Jezarian, who had just been testing on the West Virginia road course three days prior packed up and left New York City to meet the car and team at the track. K-Hill Motorsports had the trailer and car ready when Jezarian arrived and race mechanic Tommy Bowden would be engineering the day. “I left home at 6am but managed to spend a few extra minutes with New Jersey’s finest while trying to make time on the Turnpike. I’m trying to get points on track but the State Police gave me a few of their own.”

2pm Saturday arrival at Summit Point Raceway meant the last minute driver registration and tech inspection was not done quickly enough to make the qualifying session. Jezarian was forced to remain off-track for the day and had to start Sunday’s race at the back of the field. The team were granted a “Hardship Practice” waiver allowing Jezarian a restricted 15 minute warm-up session at 8am on race day with other drivers facing mechanical difficulties: “Sunday morning I was at the track, suited up and belted in by 7:45, I rolled on-track at 8am and ran 4 easy laps to make sure the car was fine. The track’s like an ice skating rink that early in the morning so I didn’t bother staying out longer than needed.”

At 1:30pm, the field rolled out for their pace lap with Jezarian at the tail end. The starter had the field bunched tightly and the pole sitter set the pace slow enough for a first gear start. Jezarian said, “Once I heard GREEN GREEN GREEN on the radio I picked off the slower cars trying to keep out of their battles to thread my way up front. Lap traffic’s tough especially when you’re behind different classes and the last thing I want is to mess up their battles.” By lap three Jezarian was behind the second place competitor and passed him by lap 5. Jezarian got the class win but a broken gearbox at the end of the race meant the trip back to the pits was on a tow truck. After the race Jezarian said, “We’ll get the box fixed and try and make the next race. These things are all a part of racing. We go out, do the best we can and try and have fun. Sort of a bittersweet end to the day but that’s racing. If I let stuff like this get to me I’d probably just take up golf like everyone else.”

Join G. JEZARIAN Racing next as they travel to the historic Watkins Glen Raceway in September.