Oct. 2007 John Smith Series Race Moroso Kart Track

This is one of those weekends we should have stayed home, that's racing though you have to take the good with the bad. We went to Moroso Sat. to get some practice in for Sunday's race. It's hard to understand why a track that wants Rotax races to take place at their track but yet they do not require the spec tire for Rotax to be run. Moroso requires Vega tires for their local series, the only sprint track in the state of Florida that does so we have no where else to run them. Learning to set the kart up to run those tires has nothing to do with learning how to set up the kart for the Rotax spec tire MOJO's the spec Rotax tire.

It threatened rain all day Sat. but didn't let lose until after practice was over so we ducked the bullet in that respect. We decided to redo Cody's seat after practice, moving it forward. A good lesson for all you reading this seat placement is everything in kart racing it has to be done correctly. Sometimes you need to move it to see if you can get the kart to work better. At any rate it took us until nine o'clock that night to get his seat done and than it was off to the hotel.

We got to the track Sunday about 8 am and it was raining slightly the track was wet as hell. You could tell it was blowing over and it looked to be clearing up. Of all the races we have attended at Moroso this was the worst run race of them all. They refused to get the track drying equipment out on the track and where only going allow one five minute practice session. We didn't go out to practice at Moroso five minutes is five laps, on a wet track you won't even get the tires warm.

Qualifying: Cody went out on the wet track first time sense we moved his seat on slicks on a wet track and qualified third not bad at all.

Prefinal: Cody was behind the kid who qualified second on the grid when they dropped the green flag he didn't take off and the other side of the grid screamed away from down the straight away. Cody ended up out of the first corner in five place and worked his way to finish third, great considering the horrible start by P2.

Final: From now on we'll go by what Cody and I have tested and know and not what others who think they know say. Cody got a much better start out of the first corner in third place and stayed there up until the final lap when the fourth place kid finally caught him and passed him. In watching him go thru the back corners of the track you could see Cody's kart was tight and just won't come out of the corners. My fault but as a parent your first reaction is to blame the driver, you need to step back and take a deep breath sometimes before you open your mouth and remember your there first and fore most to spend time with your son or daughter. Sometimes I forget that and I always regret it after words so if you have a son or daughter racing please keep that in mind and I myself will do a better job in the future of doing so.

We now have a couple weeks off so I'm sending Cody's practice motor to Donald at Advanced Karting to get rebuilt. The down time will do Cody some good actually I think as we've been going at it pretty hard the last five weeks.

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