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Langenstein has great run come to an end! Atlanta, Ga. 7/25/09
With over 70 cars entered and drivers from 24 states and Canada represented the Bandolero Nationals held at the Atlanta Motor Speedway was a success. Austin Langenstein qualified 5th fastest amongst the group assembled and with the draw set him was to start 10th in the 40 lap feature event. “Our car was great on Thursday night and we made a few small changes during Fridays open practice session that helped the car a lot. We were good and then Dad made the decision to quit practice 4 hours early so we could use the rest of the day to prepare the race car for the event on Saturday”, Austin stated. “We had a car that was capable of the pole but with the late draw the track heated up and it affected our speed a little”, Austin noted. When the green flag flew for the 40 lap Championship event Austin quickly made his way to the 5th spot and settled in there for the time being. With temperatures in the mid 90,s the race pace started to take it on some of the competition. “When we got to 5th place and road there as the race wound down and on the caution flags I noticed some of the leaders were opening up their roof hatches on the parade laps to get some air inside of the cars. I knew that the guys were struggling for cool air and they were getting tired”, Langenstein mentioned. When the green flag flew with 5 laps to go, Austin was running in 5th place behind Evan Bell, Matt Linker, Justin Carroll, and Austin Hill. With 2 to go Linker and Carroll started to bang on each other for position. As they entered turn 3 they got together and took each other out, as Austin dove to the bottom of the track to clear the crash 4th place running Austin Hill made a hard left and collected Austin in the crash ending his fine run. Evan Bell of Buford, Ga. went on to collect the victory. Austin would be scored in 13th place. “I rode in 5th and saved my car for the end and with 5 to go I could see what was going to happen. Linker and Carroll have a lot of history together and I knew that they were going to get together at some point in the race. When they crashed each other I dove to the bottom of the race track to miss them and was clear until Austin Hill got into me. I knew the deal with Linker and Carroll battling for the National Points lead it was going to happen at some point. To top thinks off Hill was driving Linkers back up car so that had the recipe for disaster,” Austin said. “Austin Hill drove me clean the entire race and I think he was trying to miss the crash as well”, Austin noted. Upon impact Austin’s car jumped 6 feet into the air and landing hard on to the chassis doing a lot of suspension damage. The fun did not stop there, as Linker and Carroll drove off from the crash under yellow. As the 2 drivers entered the front stretch, Carroll hooked Linker in the rear bumper which sent Linker into a series of rollovers before coming to a rest in the catch fence entering turn 1. Austin Langenstein and Austin Hill were out of their cars at this time looking over the damage saw this event happening. As Linker came to a rest in the catch fence Langenstein and Hill ran down the race track to assist Linker who was trapped in his race car. “When we got to Matt he was out cold. The safety crew finally arrived to the scene and we moved out of their way so they could attend to Matt”, Austin said. Linker went to the hospital where he checked out with a bruise to his ankle and a bump to his head. Justin Carroll was disqualified for the event. “We had a great run going and we had a car that was capable of winning this event, it was a shame that we got caught up in that mess on the race track,” Austin concluded. |
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