10/19/2026
Happy Monday my Tater Tot's. Well lets ketchup on what happened Saturday at our 1st ever 600 race. We met up with Geremie and Donna Dishman and had some lunch in route to the track and then got parked beside them. Once we got parked another retired from THQMA parked right beside us Audra Cowden so we had our little TH Corner. All in all there were a few drivers from TH that were racing there. Blake Dishman, Kyleigh Cox, Jaxson and Kynslee Boles and retired driver Danny Vincino. Thanks goes out to Ashley, Stachia and Z-Monkey along with Nicole and Quinlynn Harber for coming and rooting for all of us!!
So we are getting things ready to go and the car wont start for warmup. A little investigating starts and G finds that the hose on the fuelpump is about to fall off so he gets that snugged up and she fires right on up. Being our first non-quarter midget race we quickly find out that there is no communication letting the drivers know when you roll out so when we find out we needed to be on the track for our hot lap qualifying laps we got our just in time to take the white flag and get one lap on the track. Well that was a quick learning experience. SO with this being the first time on the track our time wasnt the quickest but it was a 14.754 for last place and the car that was ahead of us was a 14.177. Not that bad for the very first time. Ok so now start last in the 3 heat race and manage to gain 2 spots by the time the checkered flag waved. We now start 2nd in the B-Main, wow front row start in our first night. No nervousness here at all..... We take the green flag and move out of the way for the experienced drivers (we are only wanting seat time) and start settling in learning the line and the response of all the inputs that the car likes and doesn't and 5 laps into the B and POP the chain breaks. Well unlike quarter midgets we don't get our 3 laps to attempt to fix we are done for the night. Not what we really wanted to experience on the 1st night as we wanted to put some laps in. We knew it would be difficult to make the A-Main as there were 27 of us in the class and 7 wouldn't make it. Not finishing the race was the difficult pill to swallow as it was valuable experience we missed out on. Oh well that's the story in racing. We now have 2 weekends left in our quarter midget career. This Saturday is fun night at THQMA and our last race there and then Halloween Weekend is the Shorey Shootout.
Sorry for the long post Tot's but it was a fun weekend and will talk again soon! Tater Out! 🥔
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