Wed Aug 5th Racing

Welcome fans to another episode of "As My Axil Turns!" or "As the Track Turns". Maybe we should vote which one is better. Anyways good nite for racing. We used Grandpa's truck. He had to do some repairs and now it seems to be working OK. We got to the track about 6:15 and had already missed the driver's meeting. The boys from Tillsonburg were visiting again and so they upped the meeting and we were behind schedule. Which if anyone out there knows me is VERY UNUSUAL! On the good side the starting order was different with visitors and we were bumped to the end part of the list with only 2 groups racing after us. We get the kart looked over and racing began OK. The track was wet and slippery so we started the nite with the SS11 on the right rear and just played with our air pressure to try to get more grip. No matter what the changes were though it did not seem to help Caleb race much better. We seemed to be slower and sliding more than everyone else out there. Frustrating cause I made changes to the axel height adjuster 2x, we figured out why the engine was shaking the other week and fixed that, moved the back gear sprocket to line up better with the engine for smoother chain movement. Blahhh! Every race same story. 1st heat he started 5 out of 7 and finished last. 2nd heat he started 3 out of 7 and finished 6th. Then for the feature he started last in tail and finished 11 out of 13 karts! The crazy thing was he raced better in the last feature race where he was side by side with his freind #20 and #87. All 3 were jockeying around each other verging on passing the other at any point. Exciting for me to watch but everyone elase was watching the leaders because the rest of the group were 3/4 of a track ahead and almost lapped "our group" of 3. Here is the funny part. When Caleb came off the track and we go to lift him back into the truck we noticed he has a flat left front tire! here i spent all nite playing with pressure and i should have left them flat because he raced better! Go figure! Maybe it happened as he came off the track who knows at what point it occured because he slide off the track on 2 different occasions. So in light of this.... If Life is leaving you flat just think again because it actually might be better!
Till next week race fans! :-)