Tyler Thomas Motorsports

Tulsa Shootout Recap

On New Years weekend, Tyler Thomas Motorsports attended the first all open-wheel edition of the Tulsa Shootout held at Tulsa’s Quik Trip Center with over 700 competitors in 8 divisions looking to come home with the Golden Driller. Practice on Thursday went well, getting to make two hot-lap sessions in the A-Class, Stock Non-wing, and Eco-Tec Midget classes, then Thursday night was the start of heat races and qualifiers which included the A-Class and Non-wing Outlaw classes.

Our draw put us starting on the front row outside of the A-Class heat but with some bad luck we did not make it past the first lap of the heat race so we were done for the weekend in A-Class. Friday proved to be different though as Tyler started third row inside of the stock Non-wing heat race and made it up to the third position. In the Non-wing qualifier race, Tyler started in the fifth row inside and drove up to a fourth place finish which locked us into the Non-wing A-feature on Saturday night. In the midget heat, we started third row inside and finished fifth which put us starting seventh in the qualifier race. Starting seventh in the Eco-Tec qualifier, Tyler made his way up to the second position by halfway and ran down the leader from a straightaway but finished a close second, which locked us into the midget main event on Saturday night.

Tyler started seventh row inside of the 25 lap Non-wing A-Feature and by around halfway Tyler made his way to the top-five. In the closing part of the main event was arguably the most exciting race of the night with some great racing for second place and the leader pulling out to a half straightaway lead and Tyler coming out in second. In the Midget main event, Tyler started seventh and made his way up to the top five about five laps in but with some bad luck and hard racing taking place, we only managed an eleventh place finish.

The next race for us will be the Spring Fling held at Port City Raceway in March for the first race of the 2011 season.

Tyler Thomas Motorsports would like to thank the following sponsors for the support: B.T. Machine, B.T. Powder Coating, Factor One Racing, Alpinestars, Bell Helmets, Thriller Photo, Fenton Graphics, Triple X Raceco, Keizer Wheels, and MOMO’s Racing Engines.