The final stop on the Chaos championship tour is Mo-Kan Dragway. This championship final is very tight heading into this race team Williams holds a slim lead of 3 points. Each round is going to matter. The first day Friday is won by mother nature. It started raining early afternoon and continued into the night ending racing on Friday. The race would be run in its entirety on Saturday with Q1 coming early at 11 am.
Finally the weather was willing to cooperate with an overcast morning followed by some sun later in the day. This would allow racing to continue starting with Q1 on Saturday morning. Out of the box the team ran a 3.73 at 206 mph, this run would give the team the number 1 qualifying position after the session. This Q1 was also the first round of the Great 8 Shootout. Williams would defeat Jordan Ballew to move on to the second round of the shootout.
In the second qualifying session which also counted as the second round in the shootout Williams would face off against Shayne Lawson. The car would slow slightly to run a 3.75 at 205 mph this would have been good enough to defeat Lawson running a 3.86 at 195 mph, however Williams went red, giving the round to Lawson.
At the end of qualifying Williams would be the number 2 qualifier. Keith Zimmerman ran a quicker 3.70 at 203 mph. Due to the rain on Friday the event would only have 2 rounds of qualifying. So first round would be against Shayne Lawson.
The first round did not go as planned, the car left good and was on it’s best pass of the weekend. However Williams went red -0.004 this ended the race on the starting line giving the win to Shayne. This loss would end the chaos season for the team.
With that loss the team would finish a respectable 2nd in the Chaos points chase. The worst position the 200 Proof team has held in the Chaos series is 2nd place. This Chaos season was full of ups and downs. Reflecting on the season this loss is not the only/main reason we were not able to claim the Championship. Yes we were in control of our outcome here, where we could win as long as we could execute. However we could have had more breathing room if we were able to execute earlier in the season. For example had we not accidentally left weight on the clutch and choose the wrong transmission ratio for the second round in New Mexico, loosing the ability to finish the race in Odessa due to rain where everyone left with the same competition points, and in Cordova well we were outdone by Dave Hirata in the Drastic Plastic.
This championship was decided by one point. If we were able to win one more round of racing at any point during the season the outcome could have been different. It is all about winning rounds, win more rounds win more races, win the championship. Execute.
The team has one more Race planned at the Flying H in September, after that the focus will be on finishing the new car for the 2025 season. One thing that you can be sure of is that during the off season we will be working hard to improve our chances to reduce mistakes and execute!
