Late Wreck Foils Potential Top 10 Run For Hmiel, Team TRIMSPA in Phoenix

Late  Wreck Foils Potential Top 10 Run For Hmiel, Team TRIMSPA in  Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ (November  7, 2004) – Shane Hmiel ran in the top ten for the 
majority of the Bashas’  Supermarket 200 at Phoenix International Raceway on 
Saturday. Hmiel, who was  driving his second race in the TRIMSPA X32 Dodge, was 
spun from behind with  three laps to go.  
“We were just racing  hard there in the end trying to get a good finish,” 
said Hmiel. “I was a little  loose off the turns and Harvick got into me. I hate 
it for the TRIMSPA Team  because we had a top 10 car.” 
Hmiel qualified for  the 200 lap event in the 11th position, but climbed into 
ninth by the  first pit stop on lap 36. After running in the top 10 for the 
first 130 laps,  Hmiel dropped to the 11th position by the final stop on lap 
149. In  the closing stages of the race, Hmiel was climbing back toward the top 
ten after  restarting 13th. However, a comeback was not in the making as a 
bump  from behind inside the final three laps relegated Hmiel to a  32nd-place 
finish. 
“The guys gave me  three great fifteen second stops,” said Hmiel. “I hate it 
for them most of all.  But the good news is, this car was scheduled to have a 
new 2005 Monte Carlo body  hung on it, and we weren’t going to take it to the 
track again this season. We  are racing to win every time we go to the track. 
We were a front runner again  this weekend but sometimes you just don’t come 
out on  top.”