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Matt Long Racing Continues to Improve on 2009 Season

Concord, NC – Matt Long and his GazZu Energy Drink Racing Team have found themselves behind the proverbial eight ball most of this first quarter of the racing season. The Concord, North Carolina driver took delivery of a new Rocket Chassis at the beginning of the year and held high hopes of great things to come. However the team found itself struggling just to make feature events. Long had hoped to contend for the Fastrak Champions Series Southeastern Title this year but he missed the show at a pair of early season touring events which all but knocked him out of contention. “I was really beginning to get worried. Nothing we did made the car better. We were mediocre at best most of the time. I was beginning to think I had forgotten how to drive or something. We had a couple of sparkles in the pan at I-77 and Carolina but no where near as good as we had hoped.” Long says.

But it appears that the team has turned the corner after finding their success formula at an NDRA Weekly Racing event at the Lancaster Speedway. Long and team worked on their machine late into the afternoon before heading to Lancaster on Saturday. “We found something that we had just been overlooking. And when we went out for hot laps I finally felt like I was in a Rocket again.” said Long. After posting some very fast times during hot laps, Long’s draw forced him to start on the tail of a heat race. “The heat was only eight laps and we moved up to finish fourth. We had a great car and I was really looking forward to racing in the feature. For the first time this year I felt like we had a car capable of getting to the front and racing for the win.” added Long.

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