A good Saturday night at the races

We sold our old house to Sherry's best friend, Cyndy and her husband, Beau, 9 years ago.  For about 15 years now, Beau has been racing at the Columbus Motor Speedway.  He was twice track champion in the street stock/sport stock division and has finished 2nd or 3rd in the points several more times.  A few years ago, Sherry and I started going out to watch Beau on Saturday's as our "date night."  Growing up I was always more a fan of open-wheel (Indy car) racing than stock cars, but Beau is starting to win me over.  Anyway, 2 weeks ago, Beau set a new track record in qualifying at 15.833 seconds, unfortunately, he got boxed in relatively early in the feature and ended up finishing a ways back (I don't remember 9th, 11th, something like that, I could look it up, but it isn't that important).  Last week, he was fastest qualifier, but the features got rained out.  This week he was again fast qualifier.  Since the track is small and the features relatively short (normally 25 laps in the sport stock division), they invert the qualifying order to set the field for the feature.  The fast qualifier pulls a number between (I think) 6 and 12 and that is where he/she starts 2nd fastest starts 1 spot in front, etc.  The idea is to make the races a little more competitive since the fast qualifier would almost always win if they got to start on the pole in such a short race.  Well, he was fast qualifier (16.089, I think, it doesn't really matter) and drew the worst possible number for the inversion, 12.  That meant he started on the outside of the 6th row, I think 20 cars started the feature, so more cars in front of him than behind him.  The cars in the outside rank got a great start and Beau had made up 3 or 4 spots by the end of the 1st lap.  By the time the first caution came out on lap 8, he was already up to 6th.  He had moved into 2nd by the time of the final caution on lap 15 and after a great restart won the race going away.  That was his first win in over a year and, I believe, moved him up to 3rd in the point standings.  Congrats, Beau