Dan Griep Racing - FID

Tonight’s dinner after not making weight yesterday!

McDonald's

Huset's Speedway Results:

Cars: 32

We unloaded with good speed, going quick time in our group.

Heat: 3 -> 2 (DQ)

We had an awesome heat race, with great speed. We sadly were 6lbs (or one gallon of fuel) light at the scales.

I have been well over the weight limit my whole career! So this was new! But with how our season has gone, it makes sense.
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B-Main: 16th -> 6th

Firmly believe with a few more laps I would’ve made the show.. sadly that just wasn’t how the night went!
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This car is awesome, we have worked out the kinks..

I’m beyond excited for the finish to this season.
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Thanks to Tyler Benning and Peyton Steva for their work this weekend.
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Thanks to the partners who make it possible!
The Hangover Hut LLC
Midwest Bus Buddies LLC
Friesen’s toy box and 1/64 replicas
Humane Society of Northwest Iowa
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📸: No Limit Media

Eagle Raceway Results:

Eagle is an incredible facility.. it lived up to everything I had built it up to be in my head. The car however did not.

The same problem from last week persisted even with the believed fix.

Motor did not run in hot laps or heat.. but after discussions with Dominic White.. we were able to diagnose the issue. Thanks to Dom for the help!

The motor finally ran for the B - with us just pulling out onto the track at the last possible second.

B Main: 13th -> 11th

Happy it runs.
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A very frustrating and mentally challenging season so far. We are just gonna keep racing and hope for the opportunity to produce some results that show how far we’ve come.

Very excited for Huset's Speedway tomorrow, and Eagle again next Saturday.
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Thanks to Tyler Benning and Peyton Steva for rocking out with me.
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Thanks to the partners who helps us keep going:
The Hangover Hut LLC
Midwest Bus Buddies LLC
Friesen’s toy box and 1/64 replicas
Humane Society of Northwest Iowa
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📸: Hibma Media

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER - team 3D is headed to Eagle Raceway! Some birthday racing!
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With the rainout last night we have decided to maximize the time we have left in the summer, and we are heading south.

I have been waiting 4 years for this night - and we are beyond excited!
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Thank you to the folks who help make this possible:
The Hangover Hut LLC
Midwest Bus Buddies LLC
Friesen’s toy box and 1/64 replicas
Humane Society of Northwest Iowa
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📸: Hibma Media

Jackson Motorplex results:

Cars: 38

We unloaded with speed.. car felt awesome

Heat: 5th -> 7th

Car was great for the first few laps passing a few cars.. but coming out of two I noticed the car didn’t come up off the LF.. we were dragging frame rail around the race track…

We found a bad bar that wasn’t replaced after the axel broke at Rock..

A stupid mistake that essentially cost us our night..

B-Main 1: 6th -> 5th

Taking top 2 we didn’t transfer
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I firmly believe our night in the sun is coming.. minimizing little mistakes and putting together a full night will lead to success with our team.

It’s coming.

See you tonight at I-90 Speedway
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Thanks to my crew for the help, I know these guys want a good result and I appreciate their support sticking this out.
Tyler Benning
John Griep
Tate Norgaard
Peyton Steva
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The Hangover Hut LLC
Midwest Bus Buddies LLC
Friesen’s toy box and 1/64 replicas
Humane Society of Northwest Iowa

Huset's Speedway (7/19) & Rapid Speedway (7/21) Results:

Huset’s:
Heat: 3rd -> 3rd

Feature: 6th -> 12th
We’ve been having some issues with this car, but we were finally able to change over to our new car for Rocky!

Rapid Speedway:
Heat: 2nd -> 1st (DQ)
My suspicions were confirmed when this car both took off better, and had substantially better speed. But we ended up breaking a front axel, shearing off the RF tire. Thank the lord we didn’t flip. We couldn’t make it across the scales, so we were DQ’d

Major thank you to Hunter Hanson and The Heiskells for stepping in to help us out with getting our other front axel in. It was not as ready as we needed it to be for that scenario.

We made it out for the A, but lost brakes in the first few laps. With the track being what it was I decided to pull it in.
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Thanks to my crew, and everyone supporting me this season. It has been nuts!

Back at it Friday at Jackson Motorplex, Saturday I-90 Speedway, and Sunday again at Huset’s!
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Midwest Bus Buddies LLC
The Hangover Hut LLC
Friesen’s toy box and 1/64 replicas
Humane Society of Northwest Iowa

ANNOUNCEMENT:

The 3D racing team is proud to announce its partnership with Humane Society of Northwest Iowa!

For the rest of the year, for every top 10 that the 3D gets - we will be sponsoring the adoption of a cat that is currently at NW Iowa Humane Society!

This is a cause I’m very excited to be apart of, as I have a deep love for both my cats, and cats all over!

If you’re interested in sponsoring a cat or dog, donating, volunteering, or ADOPTING. Please go to
https://www.humanesocietyofnwia.com/
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More information coming soon with an awesome video!
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Thank you to everyone at the Humane Society for all the work you do to uplift the the animals in the NW Iowa area. The work you do is hard, and often times thankless. But WE appreciate you!
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📸: Carter Hibma Media

After finding further issues on both cars, we sadly were not able to make it to I-90 Speedway.. which hurts way worse after hearing about bonuses for tonight!

We look forward to having our cars ready to go for tomorrow at Huset's Speedway
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Thanks to Tyler Benning and Peyton Steva for helping dad and I out in the shop all day today!

On a beautiful Saturday, they could’ve been doing many other things! But decided to spend another 9 hours with us in the shop!

When it rains it pours I guess…

2 straight weeks of issues that seem to keep flowing!
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From engine issues to driveline issues to air compressors going bad and four wheelers not starting.
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Spending every single cent I have to make this work.

Praying for better results tonight. We just have to keep trying!
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Thanks to everyone who is sticking it out with me.