Some more pics of the Eastern Conference Finals:
The 8-9 year old kids always ran first thing in the morning, made for a nice photo at 8am as the sun just crested the mountains:
Back in the pits / shade after a run:
Got him to pose with the car:
He's tall, and growing like a weed! Must be all of the healthy 'track snacks':
Ben is here with Paige Wheeler from the UK. Paige is the 2010 UK Jr Dragster Champion, and came to the US to race at the Finals:
The Maple Grove Raceway Team has been raising money for Alex's Lemonade Stand, and decorated their portion of the stands with the theme:
Our racing buddies, Joel ready to warm up the slicks (this car is for sale right now, just in case any of you guys want to jump in!!):
We put a new computer on the car while we were there so we could get better graphs of the runs - amazing! We just plug our download thumb drive into the dragster computer and it automatically downloads the data. Very cool, I can now see/better understand what Benjamin is telling me (or not telling me!):
Little bro was sure glad to see Benjamin when we got home, and loved his new, yellow, Halfscale Dragster t-shirt:
