09/14/2026
Senior & Heavy Honda Extended Race at Blackbird Quarter Midget Race Club
We are getting back into the RACE! Today we only focused on 2 cars, one for each, and to run both Extended Races. We raced later today due to morning rain and the track was soft for time trials. They both placed last for their classes. Both of these classes are the older, more experienced classes.
Kelsey ran her OG Fox car in the Senior Honda Race. She did awesome! Got her line and prevented anyone from passing her except for the top 2 positions who lapped the field 3x! Kelsey gained 2 positions - P7 > P5.
Karley ran Heavy Honda today - only her 2nd race out of rookie, her 5th(?) official race, only 3rd time in this car and her 1st time at our hometrack with "equivalent" size competition. She totally surprised me! I anticipated her being timid and afraid as she has been "staying out of the way" in her recent races - I figured she would be afraid and not be aggressive enough to keep up. Well once a kid nudged her, that was enough! She took off and passed like shes been doing this for years! She would share her position for a moment before taking it right back. She started in last, P4 and got to P2 when the 2 just behind her got tangled up with just 4 laps left. Sadly for P1, he was on their tail to lap them and couldnt avoid them or the wall - and the wall won. Because of this, Karley was moved into 1ST!!! Until... she was penalized on the restart for the box or a sunglare? No one but the one that matters saw her hit the box, we did not. You really cannot tell the difference between the sunglares and the white box on the track. She was sent back two, putting her 3rd and last with just 4 laps left. In our hearts, she is the rookie that came from last and finished first today, but we took home the 3rd place banner today.
Videos are attached. They are exciting races worthwhile to watch. Due to the caution, Karley's is 2 separate videos.