Headed to Dawgwood.....

It's gonna be another wet day.....Track should be fast if it ain't rutted up too bad..... "Race report at 11:00..."

Well I was wrong about the track being rutted up...It was smooth as glass and got pretty quick before the day was over....I think Devin went a 12.6 during the win in heavy....No rain, so we got all the races in....Devin qualified 6th in Animal lite and set outside pole in heavy.....Ended up finishing 3rd in lite and won heavy by 1/4 track.

Animal Heavy race video below....




Here is Taylor's win in Animal Super heavy....



Animal 340 qualifying....


Animal 340 race....


Animal 375 qualifying....


Animal 375 race....


Animal 340 points....


Animal 375 points....



Some pics from the track today....







Dawgwood from above....



Brian

Great day considering it started with Devin on his lid....

First I want to thank Rodney and crew for doing an outstanding job of preparing the track so we could race today....It's not every track owner that would break out the motor grader to take 3 inches of mud off the track to get in just one race....It was super fast too....Devin set pole in Animal Heavy with a 12.25....Too bad the rain came right after Animal lite took the track for their feature race....Nothing could be done after that.

Somebody got a killer pic of Devin flipping his kart on the first lap of the day....Those tires had more bite than any we have ever ran...Devin and kart were fine, minus the chain that came off, he just rolled it back on, I re-cranked the kart and he was fastest kart on the track for first round of practice....On a typical Dawgwood early wet track U have to pitch the kart in turn 3 to scrub some speed or hit the fence coming out of turn 4....Well when he made that move the tires had so much bite the kart caught and just flipped right over.

We learned a thing or two today, figured out what to do to get bite when the track is wet...I think we will end up leading points in Animal Heavy and our team mate is leading in Animal Super Heavy...Looking forward to the Jan. 21st winter points race...See Ya'll there.

Animal 375 qualifying...



Animal 375 points...



Brian

What kind of gauges are these.....?

I wonder if they could be used for nitrogen....? The answer is yes I bought this set-up for $10 and it looks new.





Better pics below...









Brian

Found a new use for old kart bodies....

Just hung ours on the shed....Atleast it keeps them out of the kart shop.



Brian

2nd Winter points race at Dawgwood....

The day started with the carb puking alky....Put a new needle in it and it was still doing it....Had to put a new float in it and that fixed that problem....Qualifying was just as bad....Last in lite and only 4th in heavy....The lite race started with a bang and not the good kind....Bang went the kart when 2 karts spun in front of Devin and he couldn't miss them....Bent the caster block and stripped the bolt out of the bottom....No one had an extra at the track so Devin took the hammer to it and straightened it back out and put a longer bolt in the stripped out hole....It held together and he drove it to a 2nd place finish in heavy....That puts him in 2nd for points in heavy....Man what a day....I got to say I was quite proud of the way Devin handled himself today...Even with all the problems, he kept a cool head and just did what it took to race.

Brian

1st winter point race Dawgwood 2011

Qualified 3rd in lite and outside pole in heavy.....Finished 3rd in lite and 2nd in heavy....He was flying in heavy just got shuffled to the back staring on the outside....Just needed a couple of more laps as they say.

New style Chavous kart body....

This one was cut down to make a JR body....

Yellow HT-3's for sale....

These are the tires ran at the MaxDaddy race....

Here is the new puppy....We named him.

Briggs chillin' with me in the shed...


Look how much he has growed....12 weeks old.



Briggs brother here free to a good home....



U don't really won't me to go in there do U Daddy...?



Peaches and Briggs....


Daisy and Briggs....








Briggs day with the ducks....








What U looking at....?


Hey let me in...


His coat has changed alot...




Briggs's big boy pants are coming in....




Another upclose shot of his coat...