Tuesday

Jason Hogan Looking for a Jump Start to 2010 Season at Gresham

Cleveland, GA 3/8/10- Jason Hogan is looking to jump start his 2010 season. After going into Speedfest at his home track, Lanier National Speedway, just thirty miles from his shop with much optimism, it all went away before it even got started with mechanical problems.

This weekend, Hogan will look to get his season righted at the newly renovated Gresham Motorsports Park. Hogan competed in the World Crown 300 last fall coming home with an eleventh place finish on the new lightning fast pavement at what used to be Peach State Speedway.

This weekend’s 125 lap event is the second on Hogan’s “pick and choose” 2010 racing schedule. However, after breaking on lap one at Lanier’s Speedfest, you could make an argument that this weekend’s event could be considered his season opener.

“We didn’t even get the oil warm at Speedfest,” said Hogan. “You could argue that Gresham will be the start of our 2010 season after our problems at Lanier. Gresham is a bad fast track, one you can’t make a mistake on or it will make you pay in a big way.”

Hogan is not joking about the speeds at Gresham. The track qualifying record was set there last fall at 16.158 seconds around the half mile oval by Chase Elliott. The race also had fourteen cautions. However, in contrast to the World Crown 300, there will only be 125 laps for competitors to work with, leaving the question many have pondered including that of Hogan; what kind of race will play out?

“It should be interesting what kind of race we have this weekend. I think track position will be huge in this race because it’s still a place that is developing into a second groove race track,” stated Jason. “We tested there last weekend and we had one of the fastest cars at the test which is pretty encouraging so we’ll just have to wait and see how it plays out.”

- Tex Motorsports Marketing Press Release