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Ryan Turner is coming off of a solid rookie campaign in Sprint Car competition at Ohsweken Speedway after finishing ninth in the final points standings. He hopes to keep improving and do better this upcoming season.
“If you watch at the track, a lot of new faces are winning races and getting better and getting into the top-five consistently,” he noted at the Motorama Custom Car and Motorsports Show. “We’re just trying to do the same. We are happy with where our program is at right now as we actually have a set-up to go back into next year with. So we’re going to take that and tinker it a little and go from there.”
He says with each set of laps he is able to do, he is learning more, especially when he gets to travel to different tracks as “it gives you a different idea of thinking and setting up the car”.
The rookie had some help with his success, though, in having teammates to lean off of within the Turner Racing stable. He says it certainly helps due to already having an idea what direction to go with the set-up, and how you can try three different set-ups during practice to learn more.
“Even just someone coming in after heat one and telling you for heat two what the track is like. Different things like that,” he added.
Turner made the move up to the Sprint Car division after being successful in sportsman.
“It’s a different kind of racing,” he noted. “Sprint car racing is clean racing; you don’t want to be touching anybody as you don’t want to be going on your lid. Sportsmen is a lot banging and bashing, a lot tighter track as Merritville is only a two-lane track. There’s different competition in both but I definitely have to say sprint cars are tougher.”
Moving forward, Turner says that he is set on sticking with Sprint Cars whether than moving on to something else.
“That was the goal from day one and now that I’m here and starting to get comfortable, I just want to go out and have a good season and stick with it for a bit,” he commented.
