83 yr old still turning left....

Interesting article on the front page of the Atlanta Sports section today....If U click on the pics below the text is big enough to read.

First NGMS points race....Videos and story.

Heat race....Finished 2nd.



Main....Finished 4th....Wrong tires...Should have stuck with the heat race tires.

Part 1


Part 2

It's not the cover.....

But it ain't bad....Jennifer is a much bigger part of our karting than she thinks she is.....This pic was taken by her at Daytona this year.

Devin's new jacket is finished...

Him on the scales with the new jacket in the shop....

I like the leather letters much better than the embrodered ones on his last jacket....It cost $35 for the sewing including the two patches.....I just cut the letters out myself.

Well...Everything is ready for this weekend.

Now I just need to work on the blog...

Rain out.....

First points race of the season at NGMS and it's a rain out. We still drove all the way to the track...Knowing it was gonna rain it out. It was rescheduled for next weekend.

Brian

Here is the scale stand.....

New jacket....

I want one of these....

Some pics from the 2nd State race....

Tire impound.....



Putting on the tires for the feature race in front of the impound area....



Us in the pits....



Sitting on the grid before the pole setting run.....

2nd Ga State race.....

It took awhile to get the track rolled in and then it was ruff....Rodney brought out the road grader and took most of the ruff spots out...Man the track was fast right after he graded it....Devin's group was the first to hit the track after he graded it and he was turning laps in the mid 12's.....The track slowed down atleast a second, but didn't come apart at all this week with quite a few karts on it.

Devin just over drove the kart in the feature alittle and heated up the tires too much....By the end of the race he was wicked loose and just couldn't hold on to it anymore...He got way loose coming out of 4 and Green got under him....Both karts were sliding and Devin went spinning. Good clean racing between a couple of local boys....That's the way it goes sometimes....Still looking for a top 3 finish this year at a State race.

2nd Ga State Stocklite qualifying & race results....

We had a very good run....We set pole by 2 tenths and lead the first 4 laps....Held on to second till the white flag....Spun and still finished 4th.

Brian

Falcon territory....

Here is this years pit spot....

NGMS---Animal Lite 3-24-07 video.....

Here is the start of the race untill the first yellow....



Below is the finish....



Not a bad day at the track for us....Finished 3rd out of 8 and was right there for the lead for the first 12 laps or so....The HT5's did quite nice....Track was coming apart alittle towards the end....? We were not there last week to compair but by the responces I read at 4cycle.com I would thing the track was much better this week....Use the blower more often....It's OK if it takes an hour longer to run the show....The track had bite if the dust was blown off.

The gang fresh off the grid.........Smiles on the faces of 3 generations....Makes all the effort worth it.

We got work to do.....

We got the new rear bearings on the axle and it back on the chassis...Front spindels are back on it...Still got to reset everything on the front end. Body has to go back on.

Fixed body....

Well I found the problem.....

Last race was Mar. 10th and we thought most of the handling problem was because the numbers were off.....WRONG....It was all caused by the wreck that happened early in practice....I didn't think the hit was even hard enough to knock the toe out much less bend a spindle. When I checked the kart on on Sunday I found the toe out 3/8" and the LF caster block was rolled all the way back....No wonder the ass end wouldn't stay under it...Devin even said we should check the toe, but I got busy and forgot...The phrase "Live and learn" doesn't even apply because I know better.

After tearing the front end down I also found that the spindle was bent too...That is about $55 or so....Got to put a new set of rear bearings in the kart to. I think we are gonna try the new seat strut that's another $50. Wanna help....Click the sponsor info link on the right.

Brian

Sponsor info....

Karting Sponsor needed.....? from Brian Wheeler on Vimeo.

We like to offer alittle something extra to our sponsors....Personal appearances and a link on our website...The kart gets attention everywhere we go and the website is pushing 10,000 hits in the first year...It cost over $100 a race to stay competitive and we need your help to stay up front with the best of them.


There are 4 levels of sponsorships available...

Gold...Silver...Bronze...and Anything goes.



Gold $1500-(2) 24X24 adds on the trailer (2) 12X4 adds on the kart (2) 2 hour long personal appearances at your place of business with kart trailer and driver and (4) free tickets to a race to see us in action.



Silver $1000-(1) 12X24 add on the trailer (1) 4X6 add on the kart (1) 2 hour long personal appearance at your place of business with kart trailer and driver and (2) free tickets to a race to see us in action.



Bronze $500-(1) bumper sticker size add on the trailer (1) 4X4 add on the kart.



Anything goes……You name it…. $20 will get you a handshake and a Thank You from a happy 15 year old racer that will accept any help he can get….. $20,000 will buy you your very own race team that comes with a driver and crew chief.


Please note that due to the high cost of custom graphics one color lettering only for gold and silver sponsors. Bronze sponsors will have to furnish their own graphics. Additional graphic work can be provided at additional cost.






Contact info:
Brian Wheeler
75 McCormick Rd
Cartersville GA 30120
Cell 770-653-9019
Home 770-383-3362

NGMS-First race of 07....Animal lite.

Not a good race for us....

Heat race...



Main...

Can U build this....?

I do have one thing that I'll add after talking to the guy that let me take pics of his stand....Bump-stops...They will keep the kart and stands from falling or rolling off the stand.

Top view.....







I think I'll use these as feet....



Mr. Leather's can build it....







We did not have a good day at the track...It started going downhill when we opened the door of the trailer as we got to the track and the toolbox had puked it's contents all over the floor....Yea I forgot to bungie it down.

I think the set-up numbers are off...Got to get a scale stand...The ass end just wouldn't stay under the kart...I added rear weight and we moved the LR out and it helped but it didn't completely fix it...The kart hasn't been on a set of scales since the first state race.

Here is the only pic of us we took all day....I'll post some videos maybe tomorrow.