Hunter Robbins Brings Home a Top-10 at South Alabama

In racing. It’s not about how the car looks, it is all about how you finish.  That is all that mattered to Hunter Robbins who brought his car home in the seventh spot at the latest event at South Alabama Speedway, the Sidewinder 125.  It might not have looked pretty, but that top-10 looks good in his stats.

Robbin’s car received some early damage in incidents that were beyond his control, but the young driver was able to tough it out for a top-10 finish.

“We still had a fast racecar, and I was surprised with it looking the way it was,” said Robbins.  “Losing the whole front-end, I guess it lost some front down force and it just made it so tight in the center and I just couldn’t get off the corners.  To still come home where we did, that’s pretty good.”

The damage came from two separate incidents.  The first occurred as Andy Pugh’s car spun ahead of the group Robbins was running in, while the second happened on the night’s biggest crash, a multi-car chain reaction crash on a restart on lap 71.

Robbins spent a number of laps in the pits while his team scrambled to repair the car after each of the incidents, but because South Alabama rules say that drivers pitting cannot lose a lap while pitting under yellow, he was able to maintain his position on the lead lap

“I just wanted to thank all my crew,” said Robbins.  “They did a good job to getting the car to where it was raceable with all the work they had to do in the pits.  It was pretty spectacular.”