March 27, 2010 - Placerville Speedway.  Jimmy was in action at Placerville Speedway on Saturday March 27 with the 410 Golden State Challenge.  Jimmy had a great night of racing as he competed against the 410 Sprint Cars with his 360 powered machine.
     Jimmy was the top finishing 360 sprint car all night long and he did an excellent job keeping up with the big boys as he qualified with a lap of 10.296.  This was the 8th quick time of the night, and would put Jimmy on the outside front row of his heat race.
     Jimmy would start on the front row and take the lead going into turn one and never looked back and won his heat race with ease.  This placed Jimmy into the Dash where he would start 6th and finished 6th place as well.
     Next up for Jimmy was the Main event where he would start on the outside of row number three.  Jimmy would fall back to 8th place on lap 3 but fighting hard he would improve to 7th place on lap 5 where he would remain for 7 laps then climbing up to 6th place on lap 12 where he would run much of the race.  On lap 24 Jason Statler would make a pass and on lap 24 and Bud Kaeding would make another pass on lap 25.  One last battle on the track would be from Alissa Geving on lap 27 and on lap 28 Jimmy would pass her back.  Jimmy would finish out the night in 8th place and was the top finishing 360 in the field. 
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April 17, 2010 Placerville CA.  With mother finally cooperating with the Placerville Speedway 360 sprint car race schedule, Jimmy and crew would be able to take the Coors Light #33t to race in the 2010 opening race event for the sprint car racing season.  This night was pretty good as Jimmy would show off his new 2010 graphics on the sprint car.
  In qualifying Jimmy would would turn a lap of 10.360 which would be the 5th quick lap of the 5th quick time of the night, and would put Jimmy in the  3rd starting spot of his heat Race.
  Heat Race action was fast action paced and Jimmy would slip up on the start as fast qualifier Camron Mendes would get by Jimmy on the first lap.  Jimmy would race hard though and on lap would pass Camron for 3rd, Then at the and of Lap 3 Jimmy would get loose out of 3 and loose two spots, to 5th,  From there Jimmy would regroup and maintain that 5th place spot and have to go to the B main event. 
     The Coors Light 33t would start on the outside of the second row outside of the x1 F&F mount of Mason More.  And Sean Becker would also be starting in 3rd.  With a clean start Mason would lead the pack of 15 cars to the starting line and when the Green Flag dropped, Jimmy would race hard into turn 1 dropping behind Masons x1.  then a flag would come out for Steven Tiner, as he had to go high to miss a the loose machine of #20 Nicole Miller.  On the restart Jimmy would be hot on Mason Moores tail until Lap 6 when 42 machine of Josh Bates would spin out bringing out the yellow Flag.  Under caution, the x1 of Mason Moore would quit running leaving the lead to Jimmy.  As the race restarted Jimmy would hold off a hard charging Sean Becker and would lead the final 6 laps taking the win. 
     With a 0 pill drawn for the inversion, Jimmy would get his time back for the start of the A Main even, and would start in the second row outside.  On the start Jimmy would have some problems getting cleanly through lap one and drop back to 7th but would also regroup, and race hard to maintain that position for the next 12 laps where he would inherit 6th after the 53 of Andy would make a pass for the lead and accidentally clip the #29 of Camron Mendes.  Jimmy would then have to battle off the #21 of Colby Wiesz for the next 6 laps and eventually Wiesz would pass Jimmy putting him back to 7th.  Jimmy would race hard in that 7th spot and would finish there.