Riker Racing #00

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 hit is back bumper and got loose. Then about 3 or 4 cars were able to pass me. After being passed by a couple other cars I placed 7th.

So in the feature I started 7th out of 12 starters. I doing pretty good in the long runs and off the first double file start, but when it came to the VERY SLOW single file restarts I started messing up. I was in 3rd gear most of the time and everytime I went to take the green flag, the motor just bogged down and created some commotion with the other cars. I was not aware until after the race that I should have been in 1st gear on those starts. During the long green flag runs I was doing pretty well. Sure the motor could use A LOT  more speed to run with the leaders everyweek but I have to remind myself sometimes that I have only been racing this car for about 2 months. I have been doing way better than anyone ever expected so far too. I am not used to being one to hold up the field; I was usually the one leading the field in quarter midgets. So after 2 flips and a lot of cautions I ended up placing 5th which was not a bad finish at all!