Riker Racing #00

On Saturday we went to Hamlin Speedway for their final race of the 2011 season. I picked 10 and that got me a second place starting spot for the heat. The car ran okay in the heat but it seemed like it was loosing a lot of speed in the corners. I finished 6th in the heat. My dad did a lot of adjusting and changing things on the car to try to get it better for the feature. I started 6th in the feature and the car was running better than in the heat. But about half way through the race the moto...

Yesterday we went to Hamlin Speedway for the second time. I started 7th in the heat and finished 6th. The car was handling really well in the heat and I was happy with the finish out of 11 starting cars. In the feature I was supposed to be starting 6th but a car did not make the race so I got moved up to 4th. I had a pretty good start but the track was pretty slick from the dew from it being colder out. This was not an advantage beause it made the car pretty loose coming out of the corners. A...

After not racing for 4 weeks due to bad weather and our summer vacation, we returned to Greenwood Valley to race. I started 2nd in the heat and fell back in the pack after a couple laps. I finished in 6th place. When the feature came I started in 12th place. There were not a lot of cautions in this race, just a lot of green flag runs. In the end I ended up finishing in 11th place. The car ran good. Now it is just a matter of figuring out how to gain more speed to be more competitive.

On this passed Saturday we went to Borgers Speedway to race. This was only my second time here. I picked a 41 and that got me to start in 5th place out of 9 in the heat. This track is still very new to me as I am not sure how to drive the corners yet. They are very tight which is very different from Greenwood Valley where the corners are wide. The sun was pretty much all I could see going into the third corner so I went into it not knowing where I was and if I was going to hit a tire or ...

This weekend we went to Greenwood Valley, which has pretty much become my favorite track! I picked a number 4 so that landed me in second place to start the heat. There was only one heat and feature for the rookies this week with 12 cars registered. In the heat I got a great jump off the start and moved up to first. After about 3 or 4 laps of leading, cars started catching up to me and I got passed by one of them. After he passed me I tried to drive up under him to pass him again but instead ...

On July 2nd we went to Greenwood Valley Action Tracks. I started 7th out of 8 cars in the heat and ended up getting 4th. Then since they combine the 2 heat races for the rookies, I started 8th in the feature. It was a long race because of a lot of cautions and a red flag. I was running in 7th and 6th place towards the end of the race. Then on the last lap I passed the 5th place car to get 5th place. At the end of the race I got 5th place. I was really happy because there were 1...

On June 18 we went to Greenwood Valley Action Tracks for the third time. I'm really starting to like that track! I started 8th out of 9 cars in the heat. I'm not exactly sure where I finished between people not finishing and people spinning out on the last lap. For the feature I started 11th out of 18. I finished in 10th place and made $15. I'm starting to get the hang out the whole sliding through the corners thing and it's really helping! 

On Saturday May 28th we went to Borger's for my first 270 race there. It was a lot different than Greenwood. The corners are a lot tighter and the straightaways are longer. I got to have practice, heats, then features. After practicing, I went out for the heat. I got to 4th place but spun out and finished 6th out of 6. In the feature, I was doing pretty good and was going back and forth with someone but got to close to the tire and hit it. Somewhere in the process of hitting the tire and gett...

This past weekend at Greenwood Valley was a good/bad...

The Good:

*I got lots of extra seat time with running the track in, warm ups, heats, (part of) the feature, and practice after the features.

*I was passing cars a lot and keeping up with them too!

*I was a lot more used to shifting when I needed to.

The Bad:

*I didn't finish the feature:((I was in 10th place going to pass a car on the outside, he came...

     So this past Saturday, April 30th, I had my first 270 Micro race! We went to Greenwood Valley Action Track which is about 2 hours away from my town. Anyway I was a little nervous about it, I had only drove in the car once in a field which was nothing like the track, but my good friend that used to race quarter midgets races 270's also so we tagged along with her and her dad. They helped teach me what I had to do, be aware of, and how to take in eve...