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.\u00a0 This is the first year; I’ve had to cut back drastically on plans due to depleted funds at end of the season.\u00a0 I personally am going to blame work for cutting everyone\u2019s raises and all of my overtime.\u00a0 Don’t they know that impacts the tire budget?\u00a0 How rude.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 Maybe next year, I’ll find someone willing to foot my tire bill or at least part of it.<\/p>\n
Because it was our last race of the season, there was the expected drama, upsets and surprises.\u00a0 First of all, I can’t believe that Kelcey set another new record for this configuration.\u00a0 Way to go!!\u00a0\u00a0 Again, I’ve got to find more pace so I don’t look so slow in comparison.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 (can you tell he’s a teammate?)\u00a0 I’m really proud of what he did this season.<\/p>\n
As for me, this race day didn’t hold any thing super special or noteworthy.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Not a bad record for that class.<\/p>\n
I may not have set any records or gone undefeated, but I did have a great year.\u00a0\u00a0 I set some new personal best lap times for all of the tracks that I rode.\u00a0 I managed for to be more consistent with my lap times.\u00a0 I had races where I was within .3 from lap to lap.\u00a0 Those are huge steps for me, not to mention I didn’t fall down a single time!\u00a0 So that great paint job that Kevin did for the Speedin’ Motorsports team still looks great.<\/p>\n
I did get to race at my first WERA round.\u00a0 Wow, those dudes and dudettes are fast.\u00a0 Gridding up beside Melissa Paris (never dreamed that would happen) was pretty dang cool.\u00a0 So was finishing 4th in the race behind 3 AMA racer type girls.<\/p>\n
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