(11/15/2018)
With numbers like 7 wins and 17 Top 5’s, most would expect to be in the hunt for a championship, if not a champion. This was not the case for Cameron Swank. The Swank team battled mechanical gremlins all season that would take Cameron out of contention for the Antioch Speedway Hobby Stock Championship.
Most nights that Swank was able to bring his car out to the track in 2018, he had a Top 3 car, evidenced by his 15 podium finishes on the season. The year started out extremely strong for Swank, finishing 1st or 2nd in 5 of the first 7 races, with a 3rd and 1 DNF to go along with those. It was looking like Swank was emerging as a candidate to repeat as track champ before he missed a race early in the year, allowing his brother Morgan to pilot the car.
Swank then went on another tear from late May to early July, taking 4 wins in a 7 week stretch. Along the way Swank picked up a win in the Fair Race Trophy Dash, which has become one of his favorite plaques. Swank wasn’t done there. The month of August would bring one of the most dominant months the speedway has seen in recent times, as Swank won 3 of the 4 races held in the month. The only race he didn’t win in August would see Swank take 5th, giving him plenty of momentum heading into the big $1,000 to win 50 lap money run on September 8th.
The big money and open rules brought some of the fastest Hobby Stocks from across the state, but Swank was able to hold his own, claiming 3rd out of 25 cars. Swank would only make 2 more starts after the big show, taking home 2 more Top 5’s before his season ended. In the hobby stock that is. In the season finale, Swank brought out his new B Mod. Unfortunately for Swank, the night didn’t go well at all. After starting in the rear to let points chasers race each other and stay out of their way, he had to pull off early after losing his brakes. Swank will have a whole offseason to get the new car dialed in to hopefully run up front like he has the past few seasons.
Swank had this to say about 2018: “2018 was a breakout season for me in the hobby stock division. It was a year when you had to bring your A game every week to run with an entire field of fast cars . Special thanks to my mom and my crew chief mike costa for your endless support.”
Cameron would like to thank all of his sponsors and supporters, including:
Hot Shots Photography
Max’s backhoe
Season Stats:
Starts: 24
Wins: 7
Heat Race Wins: 12
Top 5’s: 17
Top 10’s: 20
March 31st: 2nd
April 14th: 3rd
April 28th: 10th
May 5th: 2nd
May 12th: 2nd
May 19th: 2nd
May 26th: 1st
June 2nd: 14th
June 9th: 1st
June 16th: 1st
June 23rd: 9th
June 30th: 6th
July 7th: 1st
July 21st: 3rd
July 28th: 11th
August 4th: 1st
August 11th: 5th
August 18th: 1st
August 25th: 1st
September 1st: 15th
September 8th: 3rd
September 15th: 5th
October 13th: 2nd
October 20th (B Mod): 12th
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