You just never know what the last lap is going to throw at you.
For this installment of the NASA Racing Gear Store Move of the Month, NASA Southeast Spec Miata racer Charles Lankford had a mirror full of Keith Williamson halfway through the last lap of the Saturday race at Carolina Motorsports Park. As the two sprinted toward Turn 11, David Ardoin in the No. 426 car ahead of him got a bit crossed up coming out of The Kink and went into a spin into the grass, slowing the No. 29 car of Wyatt Wood. The corner worker station had no flags displayed, so Lankford dived to the inside and got ahead of Wood.
However, the next three turns being right-handers, Lankford was on the outside heading into Turn 14, which is the long way around for the last turn onto the front straight. Lankford maintained his momentum as he and Wood rounded Turn 14, close enough to fold in Lankford’s mirror. What is easy to miss is that Williamson had sneaked to the inside of Wood, setting up a three-car drag race to the finish.
“Keith actually made it three wide in the last turn, but he missed his shift. He did the notorious two-to-five shift,” Lankford said. “He had a run on us, so he might’ve got us both, to tell you the truth.”
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