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JEGS.com pro
St. Amant still hungers for USAR title
 CECIL,
Ga. (Oct. 16) -- Panicking on the racetrack and changing your
strategy mid-race rarely produces favorable results. For USAR
Hooter's Pro Cup championship contender Gary St. Amant, sweating his
recent and wholly untimely two-race slump wouldn't do much good
either.
Therefore, although he enters this weekend's Aaron’s 250 at South
Georgia Motorsports Park 66 points behind three-time series champion
Bobby Gill ('99-'01), two-time short track world champion St. Amant
refuses to waver from a season-long race day tactic that kept him in
the points lead after eight of 11 races this season.
"We aren't going to change anything," St. Amant said.
"We had a car that was capable of winning both of these last
two races, and certainly one that was able to finish in the top
three, but we ended up 24th and 31st. It's disappointing, yes, but
we can't go crazy trying to figure out why things have turned out
this way. The bottom line is that we're still in this deal, very
much so, and we're going to give it our all to get back to the
top."
St. Amant was caught up
in a late accident in Iowa on Sept. 22, and lost a belt that
operates his oil pump at the recently-completed Oct. 6 race in
Myrtle Beach, N.C. The piece failed through no fault of St. Amant or
his JEGS.com/Speedco race team.
"It's just a part of racing," said St. Amant, who won his
previous two world titles on the ASA tour. "It's a bad time to
have a hiccup like this but what are you going to do? It could be a
whole lot worse. We only dropped to fourth and we can still see
Bobby right in front of us."
In Pro Cup racing, a driver can gain as many as 116 points on
another racer in a single event, but St. Amant is looking at his
task as a two-race assignment.
"There're two races left to decide the 2007 champion and we
need to race them both as hard as we can," he said. "I
think we're at a point where we probably need to win one and have a
top-three, top-five at the other one. We've had seven top-five
finishes in 11 races this year so it's not out of the question by
any means, but those guys in front of us are fired-up also. It'll be
a battle and this weekend will tell us a lot."
Gates open at 3 p.m. Saturday with qualifying scheduled for 4:30
p.m. Prerace begins at 6:30 p.m. and the green flag drops at 7 p.m.
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