Matthew Goodwin Racing

We made the trip to Caraway yesterday. We had nothing but problems all day. 1st practice, leaking valve cover. Fixed it and cranked it to check for leaks...starter solenoid started smoking. Thanks to AJ, we were able to replace it only to find the starter acting up. Push started it for 2nd practice and only got a couple warm up laps before the round ended land we qualified dead last. Working on the starter issue, the car lost all power. Thank to Chuck for the coil! That wasn't the problem, but we know that now. Turned out to be a wiring issue that Chris P was able to work around. We still had to push it off for the race, but we are so thankful to run. It wouldn't have been possible without the help of Robbie White and T.j. Gibson who helped work on the car. The race was uneventful for us. We didn't light the track ablaze, but we ran every lap, brought it home without a scratch, and learned a lot about where we can find speed. There was some disputes with the finishing order, so we are unsure of the official results. But wherever we finished, we are happy with our run after overcoming all of the challenges. We have 2 weeks to work on her and we will be back, better than before.

We made sure to have a little fun despite all of the work!

*Post race update* Saturday was HOT!! And of course, we found problems. We sweat all day long while problems dominoed. Drew p11 on the B race. A medical emergency in the stands red flagged warm up laps and the car died. We were not able to get it refired. Messed with it yesterday and got her running again. 2025 is just not our year.

We are so grateful for all those that helped us out. Thanks Phillip, April, Tristan, DJ, Junior, Brandon, Grease Bug, and all the other drivers and crew members who stopped to offer their help.

Please pray for all those who were affected by the heat. FCEMS were on the move all day Saturday and a few people went to the hospital.

We have decided to run a limited schedule for the rest of the BGS season. Matt has taken a job working track crew at Caraway and will race BGS in between.

This season has been a rough 1 for us. We have 1 great sponsor, but we are 99% out of pocket. We have no crew and are a black sheep in the division. Matt, Teresa, and the angels that ride with us are it. Absolutely NO offense to anyone, people make their own choices and we respect that, but we don't have AJ building our motors, Luke, Brandon, or Issac doing our set up. We do EVERYTHING 100% by ourselves. We hold no ill feelings towards anyone and have no beef with anyone. It's just matter of fact. We can't compete with deep pockets and years of knowledge. Plus getting screwed by the tower and management week after week is defeating. For all these reasons and more, we decided that taking a step back and making a little money is better for us. We wish all of our competitors luck and safety tonight.

We will see everyone next week.