VMS Motorsports

Riding the momentum of a streak of top 10 finishes, and clinging to the top 10 in National Semi-Pro points, the VMS Motorsports team was pumped up for a night of racing at Charter Raceway Park in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

The night started off poorly, as the #17 The Agency Real Estate, Precise Home Inspections car would not run after being unloaded from the trailer. After switching ignition and vacuum components, and testing all connections, the car fired up and was ready to go, with no problem found. Thanks to Eric Barth, Mike Mueller, Jimbo Sommers, and the Luke Polzin Crew for all the hard work and help.

Things didn't get better in the Heat Race. Bucher started in 3rd, and once again, broke the shifter off the transmission on the start. Bucher fell back to 6th, but was able to adjust his driving style and re-pass 2 cars for a 4th place finish.

After working feverishly to repair the transmission, Bucher jumped into the Homes.com, VMS Motorsports Legends car for the A Main, and the driveability  issue that we started the night off with, reared its ugly head. The Polzin Crew was able to help get the car running again just prior to the start of the A Main. Relegated to the back of the pack for being late to staging, Bucher quickly passed 6 cars in the first 3 turns, and it seemed like things would be OK.

A Caution flew however, with the 9 of Aaron Muhle and the 11 of Luke Polzin involved in a wreck in turn 4, negating the great start. The race restarted from the top, with Bucher back in 21st position. Try as he might, Jim Bucher could not pass a visiting driver from Iowa, trying the high side and low side, the slower car would not let the VMS Motorsports driver by, causing contact multiple times, culminating with a lap 5 incident with Bucher finally able to get by on the high side, but the Iowa driver attempted to block again, sending Buchers car careening into another can, then back into the Iowa driver, causing major front and rear suspension damage and ending the night.