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Florida Championship Series Race July 2007. Click on image to see a larger
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WKA Florida
Championship Series
Ocala Grand Prix
07/07/07
Whenever we get the chance we
take the Margay/Supercan out to race as Cody really enjoys racing that class.
We had that chance July 7,2007 at the last race of the year of the WKA Florida
Championship Series. We have four big Rotax Jr races coming up this month so I
decided to save money and use old Bridgestone tires for this race as it's
basically for fun we are not in it for points.
Friday Cody went out for
one practice session just to make sure everything was pretty much set with the
Margay and KT100, which it proved to be he was one of the fastest kids even on
old tires.
Saturday race day Cody went out for 5 laps of practice
before the race saving our tires for qualifying. I took the clutch apart
cleaned it and that's about all the set up work we did before qualifying. It
was HOT as it always is here in Florida in July. Cody qualified 2nd on old
tires against 8 other kids who where on new tires so I thought we'd be in
pretty good shape for the pre finals. Five out of the nine kids qualified in
the mid 33's so it promised to be an exciting pre final.
Pre final
race: Cody was a bit worn from the very hot conditions but did the best he
could to suck it up and give it 110%. It was a great race but we got killed on
the straight a ways making up some ground in the corners. Cody hung on for
finish third and was real disappointed when he came off the track which in turn
makes me feel bad as I didn't send him out with new tires, our tire budget just
won't stretch that far.
Final: I sent Cody into the lobby at OGP
to cool down while I worked on improving the kart for the final. Against Cody's
wishes I dropped one tooth on the rear gear; we needed a bit more in the
straight a ways. With Cody cooled down a bit and the threat of rain looming we
went to the final with Cody starting in the third spot. He had a great start
grabbing second place into the first corner right on the bumper of first place
kart. On lap three he made the pass for first and held it for the next seven
laps. It was a very close race with a great effort on Cody's part to reach down
deep on a very hot day to win the race. He drove a nearly perfect race making
not one mistake and it paid off big time with a win.
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