Craig Goess and the #81 Greenville Toyota team headed to Berlin Raceway (MI) for the ARCA RE/MAX Series event on July 25th looking to continue his recent string of strong runs.  Despite an accident that took him out of contention to win, Goess manhandled his damaged Eddie Sharp Racing car to a seventh-place finish.

“It was an up and down day,” said Goess.  “Everyone was on a different pit strategy.  We ended up getting caught up in a wreck in front of us when we got back in the field after pitting.  There was nowhere to go and I smacked the tire barriers pretty hard.  It folded up the left side of the car and folded up the right side of the car.  It looked like a crushed Pepsi can that got stretched back out.”

With the car damage more than cosmetic, Goess had to drive hard just to keep the car between the walls.

“We had some damage and the toe got messed up.  The car after that wasn’t handling as good as it was before then.  We had to give it all we had to keep it where it was.  With all that happened, a seventh-place finish wasn’t all that terrible.  It is short track racing.”

Goess and his team will now head back to Pocono Raceway (PA), where he had success earlier in the season before a parts failure took him from a winning car to a ninth-place finish.

“We have a good car that we are taking to Pocono.  Some of the improvements we were able to make at Kentucky will help.  We are taking the sister car to that and we learned a lot out there that we are going to apply to this car, so it should be a good weekend for us.”

The next ARCA RE/MAX Series event is on Saturday, August 1st, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania.

Goess Manages a Seventh-Place Finish at Berlin with Damaged Car

Post-Race Recap

Craig Goess. (51 Sports Photo)