Stock car
LMS: Keeton Hanks Toledo summary
Keeton Hanks Slides His Way to Top-Five at Toledo Youngster Stays Focused on Claiming ASA Championship CONCORD, NC (April 23, 2007) -- It might have been young Keeton Hanks' first visit to Toledo Speedway (OH), but nobody could tell that by ...
Edited: Apr 24, 2007, 5:13 PM
Copy link
Share on Viber
Keeton Hanks Slides His Way to Top-Five at Toledo
Youngster Stays Focused on Claiming ASA Championship
CONCORD, NC (April 23, 2007) -- It might have been young Keeton Hanks' first visit to Toledo Speedway (OH), but nobody could tell that by looking at him out on the track. In his first appearance at the Glassbreaker 200 weekend, Hanks put up an impressive attempt at getting his 2007 ASA Late Model season back on track by bringing home a fourth-place finish.
"Toledo was a great experience for me," said Hanks. "I had never even seen the track before, and it was good being able to get some laps and to learn to adapt to that was as challenging as it is. I was really amazed at how it was really hard to pass.
"We had a fourth-place car and we put it in fourth place. It was a good weekend."
It wasn't exactly an easy feat for the young driver to do, however. Hanks started the race from the 15th position and had to work his way up through the field.
"We went out in qualifying and kind of messed ourselves up by qualifying 15th. I was pretty worried, but then the race started and the track really changed. I just tried not to get in anyone's way and tried to avoid all of the wrecks. To get a top-five finish out of that, you can't complain at all."
Once the race was underway, things didn't get any easier for the young driver. He had to be able to react quickly to the things that happened out on the track.
"I am a racer, I like all tracks. I don't really have a favorite, but Toledo was a good track and one I will look forward to going back to. Everything happens really fast there. You have to be able to react pretty fast.
"We actually got really lucky in the race. A couple of cars in front of us made contact and actually spun the leader. We were running about sixth, and I slowed up to avoid it and got tagged from behind. We went spinning, but I was able to chase the car. We made a complete 360 turn, but we were able to keep going and keep our spot.
"The car was a rocket from them on. I have some of the hardest working guys in the pits. They got the car set up right for me, and it was a really good day for us."
This fourth-place goes a long way in the ultimate goal of the season; bringing home the 2007 ASA Late Model Challenge Series Championship for the Allen-Hock Motorsports team.
"We got our season started off wrong in Texas, but everyone is going to have one of those weeks," added Hanks. "We just need to keep putting it in the top-five each week, and hopefully the win will come after that. We will keep digging ourselves out of the hole."
The next ASA Late Model Challenge Series event will be held on May 12th at Hawkeye Downs Speedway (IA).
-credit: ahm
We want your opinion!
What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?
Take our 5 minute survey.
- The Motorsport.com Team
Read and post comments
Read also :
Share Or Save This Story
Copy link
Share on Viber
Previous article Supersport standngs after Birmingham
Next article Salem: Michael McDowell race report
Top Comments
There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?
View More & Comment
Latest news
The closest finish in MotoGP history: Toni Elias over Valentino Rossi 20 years ago
MotoGP
MGP MotoGP
Portuguese GP
44 min
The closest finish in MotoGP history: Toni Elias over Valentino Rossi 20 years ago
When will Mercedes become F1 world champions in 2026?
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
Singapore GP
1 h
When will Mercedes become F1 world champions in 2026?
Jesse Love barely holds off Sam Mayer for NASCAR O'Reilly win at Phoenix
NASCAR O'Reilly
NOAP NASCAR O'Reilly
Phoenix II
7 h
Jesse Love barely holds off Sam Mayer for NASCAR O'Reilly win at Phoenix
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
You have 2 options:
- Become a subscriber.
- Disable your adblocker.
Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here
Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page
Manage Alerts
Subscribe