Lucky Race No. 13 Brings Top-Ten For Boca Bay Racing At Pocono

Lucky Race No. 13 Brings  Top-Ten  
For Boca Bay Racing At  Pocono 

Long Pond, Pennsylvania -  - After  securing their first top-ten finish of 
the season Saturday afternoon from Pocono  Raceway, Johnny Leonard and his Boca 
Bay Racing team are looking forward to a  strong second half of the season.  
Leonard drove the Boca  Bay Builders Chevrolet started the 80-lap/200 mile 
event from the  16th place position after turning a lap of 56.582 seconds 
amounting  to a speed of 159.061 MPH. Ironically, it is the same position that the  
Cape Coral, Florida native qualified for the first Pocono  ARCA race just one 
month ago. 
The team returned to the  2.5 mile track with the same car and setup that 
they used in July.  Unfortunately, the setup didn’t work  this time forcing crew 
chief Ted Kennedy and the BBR crew to make major  adjustments hoping to 
improve the handling of the racecar.  It worked. 
With Leonard now feeling  better about his race car, he would join the 
remainder of the 40-car field for  the start of the Pennsylvania 200 shortly after 
3:00pm  EST.  While Joey Miller led the  field to the green flag, it was the 
No. 13 of Leonard that deemed impressive on  the initial start advancing several 
positions and quickly jumping into-the top  fifthteen. 
Patiently, the former  late model veteran sliced his way through the field 
and it wasn’t long before  the scoring pylon showed the No. 13 into the top-ten. 
   
Pit strategy proved  effective early as the team elected to make just a 
chassis adjustment and to top  of the fuel tank, sending the driver back into 
action. On the restart, Leonard  was posted third which is where he would stay for 
a while.  Leonard drove like a veteran and  remained in the top-five until 
green flag pit stops would be forced just after  halfway. 
Leonard came down pit  road for a routine pit stop.  
A couple of laps later  the yellow flag waived trapping the team one lap 
down.  This wasn’t the first time this  situation bit the team. While running in 
the top-ten at Kentucky Speedway,  Johnny made a green-flag pit stop only for 
the yellow flag to waive a few laps  later putting the team off the lead lap.   
Restarts were Leonard’s  strong points on Saturday and he used that against 
the rest of the competition  passing the leaders and other lap machines down 
the frontstretch heading into  turn one.  However, several laps  later, leader 
Frank Kimmel rolled in the No. 13 and passed the Florida native putting  him 
back one lap down. 
With seven cars on the  lead lap, the race for the remainder of the top-ten 
began with eighth. In the  final laps he drove a strong and conservative race 
including a brilliant last  lap pass on Bill Eversole to claim the tenth 
position.    
“Finally, we got a  top-ten,�?? said Leonard who completed 79 of the 80 
circuits.  “The car was tight all day, but we were  solid.  We raced really hard, 
but  the cautions just don’t seem to fall our way.  I’m really happy for our 
race team, and  our sponsors, they all deserve this.   We had a career best 
finish at Kentucky, now another one at Pocono, we’ll  look to get another one at 
Gateway.�?? 
Car owner Rick Woodard  echoed his driver’s statements.  “Again we didn’t 
get the yellow flag when we needed it and it hurt  us.  We had a car capable of  
finishing in the top-five, but instead had to settle for tenth.  Johnny did a 
good job behind the wheel  and the crew did a good job, I hope this is the 
start to a positive second half  of the season in ARCA.�?? 
Boca Bay Racing would  like to thank their associate sponsors FansCrew.com, 
AMSOIL, and Russo’s  Tinting, for their support.   
Next up for the ARCA  RE/MAX Series is the Shop ‘N’ Save 150 from Gateway 
International Raceway.  The 14th event on the 2005  schedule is set for Friday, 
July 29th with live coverage beginning at  8:00 pm on the PEE channel.