Peteetong: October 2008

Got to the track around 11:30 Friday and decided to fix our smoking animal motor...I didn't realize how bad it smoked at idle until we crunk it up at home Thursday night before loading it up in the trailer....I just didn't want to go into this National with a motor that I thought might not be up to par so I tore it down at the track and replaced the oil ring spring...It worked and I got the motor back together in plenty of enough time to make some practice runs Friday afternoon.

Man what a crowd...The kart counts were huge....55 in Animal heavy on Saturday and 48 in Animal med on Sunday....We didn't make the show for the heavy race...Pole was 14.00 and Devin went a 14.66. We got faster every time we hit the track all weekend long and he turned it up a notch for Medium and went a 13.66 that was good enough to make the show even if we had to start on the back row....Pole was a 13.25 In the main he made it up to about 18th and hit a piece of lead that fall off another kart, he thinks it bent something when that happened and pulled off the track 2 laps later....He thought he was close to being lapped because of the trouble with the kart but the leaders still had a half a track or more before catching him.

The best in the country were there and I am proud of him for making the show....Big thanx goes out to Bradly for help all weekend....Tire warfare was rampant...If U missed the tires even a little bit U were either going to just slide thru the turns or the tires would go away after about 2 laps and that slowed U down atleast 2 or 3 tenths a lap.

Here is the qualifying results for Animal Medium....