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Inside Line Promotions – COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (July 20, 2016) – A lot of people don’t like change. For Patrick Dills, change was needed to instill confidence in himself and his team.

Following struggles with an older car during the Western Sprint Tour Speedweek earlier this month, Dills and his crew assembled a new Eagle Motorsports Inc. chassis for his 360ci sprint car operation. He hit Cottage Grove Speedway with the new machine last Saturday.

“Right out of the gate we were fastest in hot laps,” he said. “With the old car we struggled to find left rear drive. With this car we didn’t make big enough changes, but we know what it likes now.”

Dills, who qualified seventh quickest and won a heat race, started the feature sixth. He drove up to third place before a red flag. On the restart he fell back to fourth before a caution. When the green flew something got into the right rear tire bleeder and it began losing air pressure.

“Then the rocker went bad in the motor the last few laps and we finished sixth,” he said. “But this car is good. I’ve never had a new car and this one drove like a Cadillac.

“I can’t thank my guys enough for all their hard work after Speedweek, going down to California and picking up this car, dropping it off with Jack Waddell and Double R Powder Coating … he busted it out in a day. Also thanks to Sarah and Jesse Bonnichsen for painting the body panels in a day.”

For the next three weeks Dills will be competing in the Extreme Sprints class at Cottage Grove Speedway starting this Saturday. Dills, the defending Extreme Sprints champion at Cottage Grove Speedway, currently leads the track points. He is also sixth in the track’s 360 sprint car standings.

QUICK RESULTS –

July 16 – Cottage Grove Speedway in Cottage Grove, Ore. – Qualifying: 7; Heat race: 1 (3); Feature: 6 (6).

SEASON STATS –

17 races, 2 wins, 5 top fives, 9 top 10s, 12 top 15s, 16 top 20s

UP NEXT –

Saturday at Cottage Grove Speedway in Cottage Grove, Ore.

MEDIA LINKS –

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Patrick-Dills-Racing/236840896439816?ref=br_tf

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PatrickDills90

Website: http://www.PatrickDillsRacing.com

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT – The crew

“I can’t thank my guys enough for their hard work this past week,” Dills said. “A big shout out to my dad, Jerry Dills, along with Jacob Farmen, Billy Leishman, Kevin Solesbee, Jesse Bonnichsen and Dillon Burdett.”

Dills would also like to thank Jerry Dills Trucking, Jacob Daniels, Attorney at Law, BC Motorsports, Faye Stewart for U.S. Senate, Cedric Ross Hayden Oregon State Representative, Oregon Research Consultants, API, Bonnichsen Repair, Devine Continuous Gutters, M.D. Yearous Logging, Inc., Lynn Mulligan Trucking, Rocket Designs, Dirt Monkey Productions and Inside Line Promotions for their continued support.

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