It was my last race for the 2012 season, I had hoped to go off and do a couple more at some different tracks, but money or shall we say the lack there of got in the way of those plans. This is the first year; I’ve had to cut back drastically on plans due to depleted funds at end of the season. I personally am going to blame work for cutting everyone’s raises and all of my overtime. Don’t they know that impacts the tire budget? How rude. Oh well. Maybe next year, I’ll find someone willing to foot my tire bill or at least part of it.
Because it was our last race of the season, there was the expected drama, upsets and surprises. First of all, I can’t believe that Kelcey set another new record for this configuration. Way to go!! Again, I’ve got to find more pace so I don’t look so slow in comparison. Can’t really blame him, he had some hot competition this round, so if he hadn’t picked it up he might not have finished the season undefeated. (can you tell he’s a teammate?) I’m really proud of what he did this season.
As for me, this race day didn’t hold any thing super special or noteworthy. Well, okay I did clinch the Formula Femme Championship for the 3rd year in a row, even though I missed a round. In 5 years of racing I’ve finished the year’s end for that class –> 1st 3 times. Not a bad record for that class.
I may not have set any records or gone undefeated, but I did have a great year. I set some new personal best lap times for all of the tracks that I rode. I managed for to be more consistent with my lap times. I had races where I was within .3 from lap to lap. Those are huge steps for me, not to mention I didn’t fall down a single time! So that great paint job that Kevin did for the Speedin’ Motorsports team still looks great.
I did get to race at my first WERA round. Wow, those dudes and dudettes are fast. Gridding up beside Melissa Paris (never dreamed that would happen) was pretty dang cool. So was finishing 4th in the race behind 3 AMA racer type girls.