It was the Division 1 Finals at Numidia this past weekend, always a fun event! Racing got started on Thursday, where Ben went to the semi finals in a 77 car field Gamblers Race - it was not to be!
Friday was 2 time trials for the Div 1 event, and then another Gamblers Race where he got down to 12 cars - but the car backed out of the beams on the hit. This happened to several cars, not just us - very frustrating, but he went 5 rounds.
Saturday, he was on at both ends. He went to the semi finals in the Div 1 Finals, but the car slowed up a tad and he had to settle for the small version of the 'Tree Trophy'. Jumped right into the High Rollers Race ($1,500 to win, $700 RU, $250 Semi) and went yet another 6 rounds to the semi's where he gave it back at the stripe with his .006 light. In all, Ben had 15 runs on Saturday alone, with 13 in competition - his slowest light all day was a .026, then a .019 the rest were under .010. Look out Benny!
It was an exhausting weekend, especially since we got Danny into his car for the first time and I pushed him down the track with the golf cart!
A few pics:
Staging lanes, this is an awesome track!
Ben was surprised that he got such a nice trophy while Danny was trying to give him 'bunny ears' for the pic!
We made a lot of runs this weekend, and its about 10:00PM in these pics - and we went out 2 rounds later...
He was starting to really get sideways on the burnout, traction was completely gone once the track temps went down
Off into the night with a .008 light!
Danny in training, we pushed him straight, then had him make turns, then pushed him with the engine on but belt off so he could feel what it was like. Then I pushed him down the track - engine off. More training this coming weekend, then it's licensing passes!
