“To me the whole weekend was circumstantial more than anything else,” he said.
After early incidents during his two races last weekend, Wood charged from last to earn a sixth-place result on Friday at Tri-City Speedway in Pontoon Beach, Ill., on Friday and from last to 13th during the season opener at Knoxville Raceway last Saturday
Wheatley will make his season debut at his home track of Skagit Speedway in Alger, Wash., which is only a 45-minute drive from his house.
Driver Kolt Walker will pilot the car on Friday at Lubbock Speedway in Lubbock and Saturday at Abilene Speedway in Abilene. In a trio of races at the tracks last season, Walker finished in the top six at all three races.
“The track went really, really dry, which is kind of unusual for Petaluma,” he said. “From the beginning of this year I was hoping for a dry track there because it gets pretty fun.”
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