Last weekend we ventured back out to GoPro Motorplex in Mooresville NC, where if you remember I had my bad accident and couldn’t finish the race due to my ribs being bruised. I took 4 weeks off racing to let them heal but I was so ready to get on the track again, so we decided to venture back down to NC to race their double header club race.
Friday, I got some on track coaching by Nitro’s drivers coach, Ashley Rogero. She helped me learn my lines and braking points in the KA Jr, which I felt pretty good about after the day ended.
Saturday was race day in the Briggs class only, which we wake up to 40-degree weather, which was about 20 degrees colder than Friday was, so you knew the track was going to change tremendously. In qualifying something was wrong with my motor, so I qualified 22nd(last) due to motor change. In the first prefinal I was able to make up some spots and finish 12th. In final #1 I got up to 9th by lap 7, but fell back to 12th by the end of the race. In prefinal #2 I again started 22nd and worked my way to 11th. In the final 2 I got pushed back to almost last but was able to salvage 11th by the end of the race.
Sunday was race day #2 but in the KA100 Junior class, which again we wake up to 20-degrees outside, which made the track slick cold and just off. With the track being slick and with us not having the right tire pressure, I qualified 23rd out of 25. In prefinal #1, I worked my way up to 12th but still 7 tenths off the draft. In final #1, I got down as low as 9th but kept getting passed back and forth, which led me to finish the race in 10th. In prefinal #2, I had to start 23rd again (based on qualifying), but only made it up to 18th, my kart and I were just struggling the entire race. In final #2, I started 18th and within 7 laps I was already up to 10th. My kart felt great and was in the whole time. The 7 kart draft ahead of me was too far gone and was 4 tenths faster than me being alone, which led me to finish 10th. If I had a few more laps I could have been racing with the kids in the 7 kart train, with only being less than 2 seconds away from them.
Video clip of my prefinal #2 start!
I was proud of my performance overall. I had to work my way from the back of the pack, back up through the field in every race. By the end of the weekend, I had learned a lot about my racing, braking points and passing in the big kart.
I am ready for WKA, which will be at the Daytona International Speedway 12/27 to the 12/30 where I will race my KA Jr and Briggs Jr kart, then off to Jacksonville Fl with CKNA to race my Briggs Kart,12/31-1/2.
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