Route 106 Raceway 9/20/09

This weekend we raced at Route 106 Raceway. The track was green this weekend which means there wasn't a lot of grip on the track, so everybody was sliding today. The first and second practice went really well today; yeah we were sliding a little, but other than that we just stayed out of all the other spinnouts. This weekend we did time trials which me and my Dad hate so we strapped in and prepared for the worse, but we did really well we qualified third, and I was holding back so the car wouldn't spin!!! Finally when it came the time to have the feature I thought I was going to get hypothermia in my racecar. But we moved up onto the grid and then the #15 (my friend) had a flat tire so they had to change tires to race but there is this rule that you can't change tires before a race. So they moved him to the back of the pack and I was moved into second place! Once the race started somebody spun comming into turn one. Then, on the next restart we held a good second until somebody spun me on the back straight away. After that, we had a good strong second place for pretty much half the race. But then we were approaching on lap trafic and one car wouldn't move up to the top of the race track where they are supposed to go when the leaders are going to put them a lap down. So I had hard time getting around him and that allowed the person in third to get on my back bumper and spun me which made me hit the lapped car so there was a big wreck. So they put me to the back of the pack, which was a real bummer but I was able to battle back to third place. A pretty good finish but we were good enough for a strong second if thet guy hadn't taken me out!!

Route 106 raceway 9/5/09

This weekend we raced at Route 106 raceway. In the first practice we were so loose we would be drifting coming out of turn four. A lot of people were loose too, because the track was green. Which means there isn't a lot of rubber on the track which makes it harder for the tires to grip. In the second practice, the car was as loose as the first practice. So my Dad did every thing he could think of -to tighten the car. We went back out for time trials and didn't do very well. I spun out once we got on the track. I guess we had a pretty fast time even though we spun out. We finished fourth. In the feature we moved right up to second and held on for a little, but then the #83 got on the inside and we battled him for a while. Then we fell back to third and then a little past half way we fell back to fourth and finished the race fourth battling loose and tight car. Okay for us, but not great.