"Looking back, we really have had some incredible things happen to us at Pomona," Worsham said. "We've come in here needing to get specific numbers of rounds in the bank to finish higher in the points, and we've done it. We've won here twice, and each win had a red light involved in it. There's good karma here, and it's my home track, so I'm not arguing. We need to go to the semi-final to get back into the top ten, and that's going to be hard. But, it's Pomona and we've done some very hard stuff here.
"Even more than the two wins, I think our points battle with Gary Scelzi, back in 2004, was pretty much the ultimate. We were both trying to finish in the second spot, and were within single points of each other for a couple of races. We traded blows throughout qualifying, one-upping each other back and forth, and we finally qualified with exactly the same number, but we added a point on him on the basis of speed. We ended up going to the final and finishing second, and the whole thing was incredible. It was Pomona at its most amazing."
Now, Worsham again enters Pomona with specific needs in front of him, knowing exactly what he has to do to accomplish his goal, only this time the stakes are tied to the 10th
spot on the sheet, not the second, third, or fourth.
"This whole season has been a huge disappointment, for everyone involved, but we're going into this race to throw it all out there," Worsham said. "It won't be the end of the world if we finish 11th. The sun will still come up on Monday morning, and there are lots of bigger issues in the world right now than where I finish on the points sheet, but we're going to enter this race like we're fighting for the championship. If we make it to the semi-final, that would be great and we will celebrate that a little. If we can win this thing, even on another red light or center line deal, we'll take that too. It's Pomona, so you never know."
Stranger things, quite literally, have happened. 
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