May 5th - First Race of the Season

Well we finally got to hit the track and race. Here is Caleb and his friend #20 possing in there cool racing suits and booting around the track. It has been a crappy start to the season with all this rain. Practise after practise was post poned. The night started off pretty crazy. We were supposed to use my father-in-laws pick-up truck but he lent it to someone else, Tim's cousin Dan, and it was not available when we needed it. AHHHHH! Next I called my old boss Frank at Concordia to see if I could borrow the work truck that we had last year but he had it on a job sote so it was in use. Next I called my sisiter-in-law the amazing Rae and she got us the work truck from Modern Mosaic. She is the best!!! By the time all this craziness was said and done i was feeling the stress of when would it all come together and when would we get to the track. We ended up getting to the track at 6:15 and the drivers meeting started at 6:30. We barely got the kart off the truck before Caleb had to go. I checked and filled oil, methanol and air in the tires.

This year Caleb has jumped from the Novice 2 divsion into the Junior 2 division skipping Junior 1. This was an advantage only in the fact that now kart and driver can weigh 280 lb instead of 265 lb. We scale in at 283lb right now so Caleb has to watch his carbs and sweets Hee Hee. Every other way we are at a disadvantage. These other kids have been racing up to 6 years over Caleb and have that much better karts and pit crews. The other problem is right now there is 16 karts in his division. It makes for a crowded track and more delays and yellow flags as seemed to happen last night. They split the group into 2 groups of 8 for the first 2 heats but everyone raced together for the feature. Caleb started 14th out of 16 and fared not bad considering everything. There were a number of crashes and problems but Caleb finished the race, 5 karts did not PLUS he was not last YEAH!!!! No money but we had fun and played around with stagger, tire compounds and spacing to get some info on the affects on performance. Next week we hope to get this bad boy on the scales and change our spindle high and up our cross weight. We are running abit to loose on the track right now and sliding out on the corner. It is going to be a great season with lots of learning but we are keeping a positive attitude to get around the track and finish each week aiming to not finish last. Good times YA BABY!!