Kansas Tim Sauter Rewind

Kansas Tim Sauter Rewind

Sept 30th, Kansas Speedway. Tim Sauter and the Lester Buildings team  
had several close calls with no less than five accidents happening on  
the track directly in front of the #36 during the Yellow  
Transportation 300 at the Kansas Speedway. Unlike several other races  
this year, Sauter was fortunate not to get collected in any of the  
incidents and brought home the Lester Buildings Chevy in 25th position.

Tim qualified the #36 fielded by McGill Motorsports 30th in the 43- 
car field with a lap of 31.96 seconds. At the drop of the green  
Sauter quickly moved up to the 26th spot, but as the laps wore on,  
the handling started to go away and he slid back to the 32nd position  
when the first round of pit stops came on lap 28.

Sauter’s first close call came on lap 36 when Jerry Robertson spun  
right in front of him, and had another shortly thereafter when Brad  
Coleman spun and hit the wall hard on lap 46. Following a red flag to  
clean the track, Sauter re-started on lap 52 in 23rd place.

A long green flag run followed and Tim was able to stay out longer  
than most of the lead lap teams, reaching as high as 8th place in the  
running order following the halfway point of the race. The Ricky  
Pearson led-crew was hoping for a caution, which would leave Sauter  
as one of only a dozen cars on the lead lap. Unfortunately the  
caution did not happen and Tim was forced to make a green flag stop,  
leaving him two laps down to the leaders in 28th place.

Sauter continued to run two laps down to the leaders throughout the  
balance of the event, finishing in 25th position. He narrowly missed  
several other wrecks in the second half of the race, nearly getting  
collected in a multi-car incident with only six laps remaining.  
Nextel Cup drivers who swept the top nine positions dominated the  
race, with Kevin Harvick winning his seventh race of the year.

“It was one of the days where everything was close,” Tim said after  
the race. “Our car was close, we had several close calls on the track  
and we were close to making that pit strategy work at the halfway  
point which could have gotten us a top-15 finish. We were lucky to  
not get caught up in any of those wrecks today, because this is the  
same car we plan to bring back to Charlotte in a couple of weeks.”

The NASCAR Busch Series teams have a week off prior to the Dollar  
General 300 under the lights at Lowes Motor Speedway on Friday,  
October 13th.

Affordable primary sponsorship is available on the McGill Motorsports  
Chevy Monte Carlo SS for the final three races on the 2006 NBS  
schedule. Interested parties should contact John McGill at  
440-914-4206, or visit mcgillmotorsports.com to learn more.



PR contact Perry A. Hintz, 262-763-1672 or phintz36@wi.rr.com