Bumper Cars On A Tuesday Nite

Well Race Fans;

If anyone is following I have been a tad busy and not updated for 3 weeks. Sorry. I will have to try harder to keep everyone updated. With us being in the Junior Restricted Division this year we are racing a bit later and by the time we pack up and my social butterfly driver gets in the truck we are late out. That and then we need to stop for our now traditional Subway snack on the way home. Gotta keep the boy feed eh! He is growning like a weed.

The last two weeks have been good for us. Last week after a hard fought battle Caleb finished 5th and for the first time in racing history got to scale after a feature race and WON MONEY! We were very excited and numerous people at the race track came over and congratulated him on him acheivement. His freind Courtland finished in front of him in 4th. What a great nite

This week on Tuesday did not start off as good. The track was badly chewed up and very bumpy. Caleb was sliding and jumping everywhere. We made some adjustments, just to make it worse. I made adjustments in the opposite direction to try to fix my fix. His first heat was 7th out of 7 and his second heat was 4th out of 7. Due to our great showing we placed a pathetic 11th out of 14 to start our big feature race. I was not optomistic. Oh thee of little faith as they say. Paul the director of karting is trying to crack down on the rough driving and purpose crashing that is happening. During the race there were numerous wipe outs and yellow flags. After each, the bad boy was sent to the back of the pack to run tail. Caleb kept his head about him and avoided all the spills and crashes and was not the cause of any either. He kept moving up the pack as people were pulled from the front of the pack and shoved tail. finally with 2 laps left of the race he had moved from 11th up to 7th. As the end of the race was underway again the leaders were fighting for positions and another wipe out happened, no yellow flags and Caleb finished 5th! For the second week in a row he got to scale and earned some money! Not a great win since it was due to an accident and from rough bumping but i guess that is racing. Not as rewarding feeling though let me tell you. i felt horrible when i found out that Caleb's freind Court who was leading the race was the one who was bumped out and thus lost. i would have hated to be in their truck on the way home. I am sure they were livid!

I have some pics that i am trying to get uploaded so hopefully soon you can see the graphics for this year. computer is not reading the camera chip right for some stupid reason.