A Smashing Nite for Racing!

Good day all you racing fans! Hope noone logged on early Wed morning for our update. I have had a busy day and unfortuately am not entering our exciting nite until now. Where to start with our nite of racing.... Well to start we were rained out of our feature race last week so we had a bit of a different race format for the night. We started with the usual warm-up heat but then went straight into our feature race for points and money which also counted as our first qualifing heat of the nite. Here is where the excitement started! After our warm up heat we decided to try to tighten the kart up abit and moved the left rear tire. With the adjustment I was unsure if it was going to make the kart better or worse so it was a if this does not work option then we will put it back the way it was then adjust the air pressure kind of deal. WELL in the feature race for whatever reason Caleb spun out on a corner and ended up facing backwards and was waiting for the yellow flag so he could move and get turned around. Maybe the flag man was our for a smoke or something because the beginning of the pack came flying head on towards him and he had a front row seat watching these karts going probable 30 kmor more towards him and bracing for the inevitable. YES A HEAD ON COLLISION! I got to watch it and replaying in my mind over and over when I tried to sleep last nite. I should have had my camera to document all the damage to his kart and the poor other guy who was following behind 2 karts that split around Caleb and he had no time to react or avoid the accident. The front end was caved in, the tye rod was bent, the front right tire was slanted in and there is now a dent in our rim. After the St. John Ambulance people looked him over and he got out of the kart Terry from Beckett Racing # 20's dad tugged the kart off the track because it was not drivable. We put the kart on the kart stand for repairs and I went to check on how Caleb was doing. My boys response when I poked my head in the ambulance, well is my kart fixed! What a kid. I came back to the kart to find 5 dad's using a 2 x 4 to try to push the dent out to no avail. I made the executive decision that the front end nose piece needed to come off. With Nascar speed, we whipped out the impact wrench, 7/16th wrench and started passing the bolts, washers and nuts to be put off to the side. Once the nose was off Terry and his friend Greg came over and helped jump on dents to pop it back out. By the skin of our teeth and a few bolts short we got him back on the track for his next race because we were being paged to the grid. He ended up finishing second last but I was worried he was going to lose his one wheel because we did not have all the nuts on. Today I put all the correct parts back on for next week and made sure all the screws were tighted up. After his second heat we went down to the tech guy to get our tye rod replaced, things straightened up and toe adjusted and kart rescaled with a new 61 tooth gear. His feature race was awesome. He was keeping up and was ahead by 3 karts until the end when he spun a bit and lost some ground. Still he finished 2nd last behind his friend #20. Not a bad nite of racing since he walked away without being hurt and our tupperware body bounced back to race another day. Until next week race fans! And a special thanks goes out to my #1 fan, u know who u r!!