By DDR Motorsports PR
WATERTOWN, Conn.—June 9, 2013— One of the pluses of racing with the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series is that when a driver/team encounters some bad luck there is usually another race just around the corner to rebound from that. David Gravel had more than his fair share of bad luck over the last few races, but he and his team continue to work hard and persist as the heart of the season rolls around.
Gravel was scheduled to compete in four races in a five-day period in the FMR Racing/JRC Transportation/Musco Fuels/Model Craft J&J under the Bill Rose Racing banner this past week, but Mother Nature had other ideas, cutting that stretch to three races in four nights. Each of the three venues he visited, he was making his debut at.
The three-race swing opened for Gravel at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway on Wednesday, June 5 with a 14th-place finish. He started the 40-lap contest in 16th and worked his way into the top-10 by just the ninth lap. He would run 10th for a handful of laps before getting shuffled back on a couple of restarts. After dropping back to 17th just past the halfway point of the race he would work his way back forward to finish 14th. Gravel was 17th in time trials, missing the heat race inversion by a single spot. A seventh-place showing in the first heat race sent him to the B-main, which he won to earn a spot in the A-Feature. Read more »
