Brother won 95 race without assistance

Just like any other article of controversy, the Speedway 95 Super Street story (BDN, June 25) has two sides. My side was not published and it really bothered me.

My name is Jeff Overlock Jr. My family has been involved in racing at Speedway 95 since 1996. Starting with my late farther who passed away Aug. 10, 2005, he helped build the bleachers in the grandstands and raced for over 25 years.

Overlocks have been known to be a competitive, honest and clean group of guys, and I want to be known as one of them. So when an article states that I helped my brother (Steve Moulton) win the Super Street Series race, I was offended. I don’t drive that way. Every man is for himself when the rubber meets the asphalt.

Saturday night my car started to overheat about halfway through the 50-lap feature. When the No. 48 and No. 9 passed me, I thought they were the only cars left to pass me for position. So I slowed down my laps to try and cool my car down to complete the race. That was until the No. 8 and No. 3 raced up inside of me. It was then that I started pushing my car harder. I slid coming out of turn four which allowed the No. 8 and No. 3 to get by me. I kept going at a fast pace and stayed in the outside groove that I race in all night. Knowing that the leaders had to be coming soon I wanted to give them plenty of room to get under me.

The No. 80 car (Steve Moulton) pulled to the inside of me and made the pass. It didn’t take long for him to get by me, mainly because he was the class of the field all night and he knows how to get through traffic. After he got by I kept up the same pace in order not to mess up the rest of the field. I have no mirrors in my car, so I didn’t know when anyone was coming until they were under me. The No. 25 car (John Kalel II) pulled inside of me but for some reason couldn’t make the pass.

I didn’t know where third, fourth, fifth were and so on and didn’t want to slow up to get Kalel to go by and cause a big pileup and be the bad guy. As it turns out, the article makes me look that way anyway. I wasn’t blocking, I wasn’t trying to hold anybody up, and definitely wasn’t trying to get my brother a win. He did it all on his own as he always does.

All I want is for my fans, my sponsors, and even for my non-fans, to know is that I am not a dirty driver, and that I wasn’t Saturday night.

Jeff Overlock Jr.

Hermon

Song’s original version outshines Cream’s

In Saturday’s paper, an article about driver Sean Caisse has the following lead:

“In the song ‘Born Under a Bad Sign’ by the group Cream, one lyric goes ‘If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have any luck at all.'”

The song was written by Booker T. Jones and William Bell. Blues master Albert King’s version came out before Cream’s and is far, far superior. Check it out and you will see that there is absolutely no comparison. Many people suffer from the false impression that Eric Clapton invented the blues; in actuality, he just took them from superior artists.

Chris Tuthill

Old Town

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