The season got off to a slow start with races being cancelled due to rain and snow, but once it got moving it was a really fun one.
This was my second season running in the 700 class and I set my goal to go for the championship, little did I know at the time that I was going to have a tough battle on my hands. The 700 line had a lot of tough competitors this year, some came back from last season but there were also some new faces. Chris, Chad, Ryan, Silva, Dave, Devon .......... those are just a few of the guys that made this season a memorable one for me. Every time we lined up it was a battle, not just for a lap or 2, but for the whole race.
A few high points from my season, not in any specific order:
- Milford 1 - Took my first holeshot in the 700 class, only to lose first about 3/4 of a mile in by blowing a corner!
- Ryan chewing me out for parking an RV in front of his camper at Big Springs and blocking his view, only to later realize it wasn't my RV and apologizing later in the day!
- My first 700 Class win at Warrensburg!
- Second 700 Class win at Merwin, with Silva 10 feet off my rear fender the whole race!
- First series race at Thurman, that place is awesome and we need to race it again!
I met a lot of new people this season and made a lot of new friends. We can bang bars on the course and sit around a bs about it afterwards, that's what makes this series great.
Overall, I had my best year yet, and ended the season on top (barely, thanks for the pressure Chad!). There is my other high point for the season, 700 Class Champion!
Thanks to all the land owners, everyone who helped set up our courses, the people in the scoring trailer and of course Dan! Your the man and help make this series what it is.
It's a wrap! See you guys at the Banquet in January
(Now I have a few months to get this whole 500 class thing figured out!)
I started the year off in the B class with the hopes of moving up to the A Class after running away with the first race in B and racing a few other series in the A class I decided to make the jump to the A class at Big Springs I had no idea what I got myself into that was a fast group of guys I barely had time to breathe the first race! Never had a race where I was either on someone's rear wheel or they were on mine for a whole race it was a blast The rest of the season proved to be much more of the same close fun clean racing Like Scott said above we were all able to race each other hard the whole race then turn around and be friends off the track The new location in Thurman was awesome hands down race of the year really hoping to see it back on the schedule for 2014 Not only was the season great for racing but I made a lot of new friend and became better friends with quite a few to including Mr. And Mrs. Stretz congrats on the marriage by the way Another cool thing about this year was setting up at Drexel and Merwin Rj and Chuck Martin are both great guys who are fun and easy to help out I would recommend to those who haven't or don't help at the races to do so it's actually a lot of fun and you can learn to appreciate these events a lot more by seeing how much effort goes into each event! Overall this season was great I ended up 7th in the A Class and 10th overall, met all my goals for the year and learned a lot. Once again thanks to Dan the man Johnson and company for all you guys do for us and our series it wouldn't be what it is without you guys!
