Alot has happened since I updated a few weeks ago...first off the weather has continued to be a real pain around here as we have been the last few weekends.
With all that happening we loaded up the midgets and headed to Knoxville, Iowa to run the Midget Nationals with USAC on the 1/2 mile. The last time I ran at Knoxville was back in 1995 when Moose & I loaded up our Drake sprinter headed out east...boy alot has happened since.
Here we were back at the track running 2 midgets with only 2 races under our belts (we had planned to have run 6 shows before this but Mother Nature changed that), the weather was hot & humid, we had to miss the Thursday night practice, (taking one day off work was hard enough for everyone), this was Jason Holt's first time on a 1/2 mile in a midget (as a matter of fact it was mine too), plus as usual it seemed I was starting to feel a little under the weather (there's that dam word again).
Anyway to greatly shorten this story, Friday night really became our practice night were we tired a few different things that lead to what Linda & I consider a successful Saturday night with the midgets on the 1/2 mile. Jason did a great job considering he was under powered with the old Reap Fontana motor. Kelly Holt, Justin Kinser, and Travis Berryhill, really pulled together to help Linda get things done as I wasn't up to par. We met our goals as both cars rolled back in the trailer and now we'll get ready for our next run which will be July 18-19 with the PowrI group.
Here's a few shots from Knoxville...more later, DOK
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