What originally looked like an average day at the races turned into yet another personal best for Sam today. He had a lap time of 42.71 in practice and a pretty good dog fight with a new driver to the track. We thought we finally had someone that we could race with a little more closely but that all fizzled quickly once the feature came. This driver ran away at the start and just about took the win from the class points leader leaving us to occupy the third place spot. Still not bad for a day's work but it would have been a lot more fun to see him further up in the fight.
Now it's off to Blackhawk Farms Raceway in two weeks. This is Sam's favorite track to date and we're all really looking forward to it. Even our dog who get's the rare opportunity to come with us to the track as well as the hotel.
Blackhawk Farms is a 1.9 mile track built for automobile racing and is much wider, longer, and faster than what he's used to seeing in your average kart track. Last year when we ran a Briggs engine he could literally stand on the gas all the way around the track. Even though the speeds we'll reach this year are much higher in our current class, I have to think he'll still be flat-footin' it around the place. If my calculations are right he should be averaging around 79 MPH and that's pretty spectacular for a twelve year old. I don't know who should be more spooked? Me for letting him do this or him for doing it. Like I said, when I was his age I still had a playing card in my spokes and only went as fast around the block as my two feet would take me. A far cry from where he's at today. The other nice thing about this event is it's part of the Championship Enduro Series which brings a whole new and different crop of young drivers to compete against. He's always saying that he wants more people to drive with and this is just the weekend for that.
