Race 04: TM Lights Round of Piqua

MRD Motorsports Encounters Late Race Frustration at Piqua, Frustrations Continue to Intensify

Despite being near the front early on in the Round of Piqua, John Jefferson fell a lap down late in the race and pretty much stayed at the tail end as he remains without a top 10 to his name.

"I don't know what else I can do at this point" Jefferson said after the race. "Everyone's working hard trying to give me the best possible car and no matter what we do, nothing's going right. I'm all out of ideas" Jefferson lamented.

Team owner Tom Delgado was none too pleased either. Speaking on Skype with reporters later that evening, Delgado expressed his disappointment with his entire TM Lights operation. "The performances haven't been there. Something has to give when you're simply not getting the job done, no matter how hard you're working" Delgado said.

Frustration boils over for Matthews:
Encouraged by a good finish in her ARLA race earlier in the afternoon, Tiffany Matthews felt like this could be the race where she finally breaks through and scores her first points of the season.

Instead, her race, like at Carbondale before it, ended in frustration, as she was one of the innocent victims of the accident on Lap 6. It is the second consecutive race in which she has failed to finish.

"I'm getting really tired of getting caught in other people's messes," she said, after angrily tossing her helmet into the cockpit of her wrecked Bolden. "I'm beyond frustrated at this point. You know how the definition of insanity is doing the same thing expecting a different result? Well, I must be truly insane by now."

She also criticized Alli Culotta, who set off the incident that took her out of the race.

"I think Alli dropped more than the rest of her name in the offseason," she said. "For a supposed veteran of this series to pull a boneheaded move like that makes me wonder who's running things over there at the Lynxe Women's Team. They really need to sit her down and have a nice talk with her about paying attention to the track, because she clearly wasn't when she hit Eric Molina."