May 16, 2006 – Jeremy Miller Racing headed to Kil-Kare Speedway in Xenia, OH knowing the weather forecast didn’t look good.  Sure enough the team arrived at the track Friday morning and sat through wet conditions all day.  USAR made the call to postpone the race to Saturday afternoon and set the lineup by points.  This put Jeremy back in the 24^th starting position.  Not where he wanted to be on a 3/8 mile track.

On Saturday Jeremy practiced and didn’t take long to get the car feeling comfortable.  With no qualifying, he decided to practice on old tires to make the car ready for later race conditions.  With other teams putting on new tires, Jeremy stuck around 20^th on the speed charts but obviously had a good handling car that could get the job done.

Jeremy's Ceco Buildings/SVC/Rod Miller Construction/InvisibleGlass.com Chevrolet paces the track

Once the race started trouble found Jeremy quickly.  Shortly into the race he had worked himself up to the 18th position when a car spun in front of him.  Jeremy got slowed down but was in a pack of cars and got turned into the front stretch wall.  At that point another car backed into his left rear corner causing a lot of body damage.  The team decided to pit then changing right side tires and fueling the car.  Under the next caution, Jeremy had to stop again to get some of the sheet metal pulled away from the rear tires.  At that point the car was still handling well and Jeremy continued on.

A few laps later, Jeremy drove too hard into turn one.  He had to spin the car in order to avoid taking out another car.  “It was either that or take out the 75,” Jeremy said, “so I just spun it.”

Jeremy continued to race unaffected by the damage from an early incident

Just after the halfway point another car turned Jeremy into the outside wall.  The wreck ended up involving five cars and put Jeremy out of the race.  This was the final blow and put the #18 Chevrolet Monte Carlo in 25^th finishing place.  The entire team wants to thank the sponsors Ceco Building Systems, Schaus-Vorhies Contracting and Invisible Glass.  Everyone wishes it could have been a better weekend for them.

Jeremy Miller Racing is now planning to go to Indianapolis Raceway Park on June 17^th.