Ready to put a bow on her race season, Moore made her way to the Whipple Superchargers NMRA World Finals presented by Competition Clutch featuring the Holley Intergalactic Ford Festival in late September, early October at Beech Bend Raceway in Kentucky, and qualified in the fifth spot with some off-pace passes. She lost in the first round.
“On the first pass down the track during the first round of qualifying, I let go of the button, and the car left good, and felt strong and normal, but as soon as it shifted into second gear, there was a bang, and I pulled over, got pushed off the track, opened the hood and knew it was bad,” said Moore.
“We got it back to the pits and within three minutes, I figured out that the crankshaft broke. Every piston hit every valve and there was no amount of work we could have done to get back into that race. We didn’t have a spare engine either. We were looking for other options and had a fellow racer running a different class offer to pull his car from competition and let me enter it into the class, however since this particular car didn’t have a blower with a listed pulley combination on the rules, it wouldn’t fit and wouldn’t have been legal. But, we tried everything we could at the race, like we always do, until we had no other options, and then we decided to enjoy the weekend and help out our fellow racers and had a great time.”
Despite the breakage and having to sit out the rest of the race, Moore had enough points to become the 2023 NMRA Whatever It Takes Transmissions Parts Limited Street champion, backing up last year’s championship.
