We arrived to Sebring on Thursday to setup for practice day with Performance Driving Group. Me and Parker Delong, who was my teammate for the weekend got 6 practice sessions and knocked off time each session, practiced drafting and passing each other on the track.
Saturday was qualifying and 2 races, which I thought was pretty cool to get more seat time. My qualifying wasn't the greatest and I qualified 7th place which placed me 7th in the first race. After the first race every race you would line up how you finished in that race. Below is the slight recap of my races.
Day1:
Qualified 7th. Race 1, I finished 6th because I wasn't on my A game but stepped it up in Race 2.
In race 2 I finished 5th. Not only did I finish 5th but got under 2 seconds (lap time) off the leaders that were linked up. My races consisted of some great battles, pushing the limits, and just getting tied up with the radicals and E30's.
Day 3:
I dropped my time in warmup by a second from the day before and now being only 8 tenths off the fast guys. In Race#1 of the day, I raced a good race, fell a little behind till double yellows were thrown, so we all got bunched up again. At the start of the green flag in the back, the E30’s got in the way which had me lose the top runners, so I finished out the race in 4th. The second race I battled side by side with another competitor most of the race and missed 3rd place by less than a blink of an eye.
I'm happy with my finish this weekend at Sebring. The only complaint I have is combining so many classes into one. There were Porsche, E30's, Radicals and even Trans Ams in our races that would lap me and cut me off in corners almost knocking me out, which all it did was help me lose the person in front me.
Off for a week then on to Daytona Kart Week to race my KA100 Junior kart against 30+competitors.
BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT HELPS SUPPORT ME THROUGHOUT MY JOURNEY!
My parents
Rob Young
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