He got on track as quickly as possible and found that the car wasn't too bad.  Throughout the day he made changes with the track bar, but left everything else alone.  On old tires, Jeremy was practicing with speeds keeping him in the top 20.  When he felt the car was as good as it could be, he put on new tires and headed out to make his mock qualifying run.  He posted a time of 14.190 seconds which would end up 11th quick out of 39 cars at the end of the day.  Jeremy was happy enough with the car to park it for the final half hour of practice.

Jeremy's #18 GETT Industries/Rod Miller Construction/SVC Chevrolet Monte Carlo awaits pre-qualifying tech inspection

The crew went over the car prior to pre-qualifying tech inspection and discovered it was bottoming out badly.  Jeremy decided he needed to raise the left side of the car to avoid serious problems during the race.  While the solution did keep the car from bottoming out, it also caused the car to loosen up.  Jeremy ran a qualifying time of 14.331.  This lined him up 14th for the start of the race.  "It was loose," Jeremy said, "I just couldn't get on it like I wanted to on the back stretch."  Although disappointed he wasn't in the top 10, Jeremy was solidly in the field for the evening's race.

Jeremy signs autographs prior to starting the BFGoodrichTires.com 250

There was little time to stay disappointed as the race was on.  Jeremy got right to speed and ran well while trying to be cautious in the first few laps of the race.  At one point, he found himself down to the 19th position.  Then his spotter started telling him who he needed to pass for position.  Jeremy picked cars off one by one passing himself steadily up to the 14th position.  After a very long green flag run the caution finally came out.  Jeremy came into the pits with just about 50 laps to go for new right side tires.  Unfortunately, while leaving the very tight pit road he ran the pit road stop sign.  "They must have turned the sign just as I was going by.  It was close," Jeremy said.  However, rules are rules and Jeremy was issued a one lap penalty that put him to the end of the running field.  Jeremy would once again see the checkered flags, but he was back to the 21st finishing position.

Jeremy runs around Kil-Kare Speedway

"It was a good weekend and a good race for us," Jeremy commented, "but just not a good finish."  Jeremy will work on pulling all these together as he progresses in his second season of USAR Hooters Pro Cup racing.  Jeremy Miller Racing plans on next competing at Salem Speedway in Salem, IN on July 30th.  Check back to Jeremy-Miller.com for updates throughout the month.

Jeremy races along side pole sitter Shelby Howard