The best of times, the worst of times

JULY 20th Race

Well race fans, this Tuesday nite could have been awesome. Could being the operative word!
It started off a little tense. Last week we were racing well in the feature race. Caleb was passing and moving up when he started to lose power and speed falling back in the ranks. When we were cleaning the kart we noticed that we had blown the gasket AGAIN by the restricter plate. We started removing the gas tank with much difficulty becasue it is a very tight space to work in. You only can turn the allan key 1/8th of a turn at a time. It was taking forever to remove. Then just as it finally came off the @#$% gasket feel into the engine. So we started to take the side plate off to get at the thing out. By the time we went to the track we were in bits and pieces. We borrowed some better tools and got some parts from Chris Long and in no time we were back together. The warm up heat the kart was running good so we thought AWESOME we finally have everything dialed in and we are going to kick some butt. The second heat Caleb actually finished 3rd and got to scale. YEAH! we were all set for the feature race. Caleb started 8th out of 15 so I was hoping he could move up and finish in the top 5 for the nite. UNFORTUNATELY Fate had other ideas. He was racing well and moving up when he got bumped and ended up turned around in the tires. Everyone else avoided the problem and kept racing. The yellow flag did NOT come out. Caleb waited for the race to go to caution because he was backwards but NOOO. So he pushed himself and got back onto the track. The problem was now he was 3/4 of the way around the track and he was so far behind he had not a chance in hell of finishing anywhere but last. I don't know whether to be mad at the flagmen for not stopping the race or Caleb for getting back onto the track! OH WELL that is something I am just going to have to suck it up over. It just really hurts the point standings when every place you finish is 2 points. 8th to 15th is 14 points lost. What a nite! we went from running great to sitting backwards in the tires while the race passes it us by! So much like life I guess just when you think you have it all figured out life throws you a curve. So race fans, keep your head up and watch out for the curves!