Riker Racing #00

On September 29 we traveled back out to Greenwood Valley Action Track again for another race. I went our for Rookie and Regular practice and the car was pretty good. I was set to start first in the heat. On the start the second place car got a good jump on me and passsed me on the outside. Not to far behind was the third place car. She caught up to be and passed me soon after. From there on I ran the rest of the race in third place and finished there. In the feature I started 6th place. Within a couple laps I was up to 4th. I was passing the third place car on the inside, hit his back tire, and spun out in turn one. From here I had to go all the way to the back which was 13th place. After that happened I drove hard and was passing cars every lap. I got all the way back up to 4th. I was following the third place car and was staying with him, then all of the sudden the first place car who had a straight away lead on me, locked up and spun out. This brought be up to third place which is where I finished. Overall it was a great night and finish.

On October 6 we went up to Greenwood Valley once again. This week, we are going to see my dad's point of view of that day.  

Not the best of nights on 10/6/12  at GVAT. 13 cars in the rookie class gave us two heats of 6 and 7 cars. Alyssa started 4th place in the second heat, on the start the the top two cars didn't go and bunched up the field, going in to turn one Alyssa had a head of speed and run into a slower cars right rear tire sending her car again up in the air and almost into the outside wall. Gathering up the car and down shifting she again took off to catch the pack. The car was turning great but we were needing some forward bite. With the recent engine changes and a different tire combination all she was doing was spinning the tires real hard coming off the corners. I had some ideas how to fix this and were back to the pits after a disappointing heat finish of 4th. Feature time brought some hope. We had a sweet burning plug, back to a set up we know gives us some amazing bite coming off the corners and Alyssa was ready to do battle. While lining up Alyssa noticed the brake pedal was not in its correct location. Knowing this was not safe and she couldn't race this way she pulled off on to the infield, when I looked at the pedal I could see the master cyl pedal rod was missing The pin had fallen out and must have been out on the track. I felt terrible Its my responsibly to keep the car together and safe. I failed this week and took a chance away from Alyssa. Well there is two weeks left to try to get another win for the 2012 racing season. Thanks again to all our supporters.