The mid-summer Howard Kaeding Classic turned out to be a six-doughnut night for Justin Sanders. The HKC win was Sanders’ seventh of the year to that point. The frustration he unleashed in those doughnuts had been building inside a guy who doesn’t want just to win races – after all, he has about 125 of those over his career – he wants wins in big races. “I don’t do relaxed,” Sanders contended, “and I won’t be relaxed tomorrow morning. It’s a confession of sorts, that reveals the core of who Sanders is. After winning almost all there was to win in karts and micros, Sanders declared he wanted to race sprint cars, even though he was only 15 years old.

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