09/07/2026
🏁 FALL NATIONALS RECAP 🏁
The best way to describe this weekend? LONG, HOT, and full of emotions — from great moments to some really tough ones! But what did we do with all of that? We locked in, kept digging, and kept moving forward!
It’s been a LONG time — since April — since Josh has raced all four cars, and this weekend he jumped right back into all of them!
🔴 SR HONDA — Q4
Day 1: P4 ➡️ P4
Josh drove his heart out! He had great position for most of the race, but about 3/4 of the way through, contact resulted in Josh getting the strike and being sent to the tail. With only a few laps remaining, he put his head down and drove all the way back to P4! We were extremely proud of the fight he showed.
Day 2: P4 ➡️ P8
This one was a gamble. After seeing several cautions on Day 1 and then sitting through a two-hour rain delay, we expected the track to change and decided to make an adjustment assuming we would have a bunch of cautions. Unfortunately, our gamble didn’t go the way we hoped. That’s racing — sometimes you hit the setup and sometimes you learn from it. Still proud of what we accomplished!
🔴SR ANIMAL — Q2 ➡️ P4
Josh LOVES his Animal car, and unfortunately, no one regularly runs the class at our club seat time has been at a minimum, so qualifying P2 at Fall Nationals was exciting!
Josh drove as hard as he could and was battling for his first Animal podium, but unfortunately another call didn’t go our way and dropped him back to P4. He was absolutely bummed, but there wasn’t much time to dwell on it — we still had two more cars to race!
🔴LIGHT 160 — Q10 ➡️ P5
This car had recently been torn down and reassembled so Fall Nationals was basically our shakedown.
Unfortunately, Josh only got in two qualifying laps before his chain fell off, which put him at the tail for both races. Starting dead last both days P10 was no easy task, but he went to work and made some HARD passes through the field!
Day 1: P5
Day 2: P8
🔴LIGHT WORLD FORMULA
This class is still very new to Josh, and our biggest focus has simply been teaching him how to drive the car properly and get comfortable with it.
By the end of the weekend, we finally started seeing it CLICK! 🙌 Josh became much more comfortable and started driving the car the way we knew he could. Sometimes the biggest wins of a weekend don’t show up on the results sheet!
🔴GAVIN — JR HONDA
Gavin only had one car to focus on this weekend — his Jr Honda.
We were hoping for stronger qualifying runs, but it just wasn’t in his favor, putting him into the B Main both days.
Day 1: Gavin got the job done and transferred into the feature!
Day 2: He made a mistake on the final lap that cost him the transfer spot. Thankfully, he got a second chance by making the feature as the X car!
Passing has been something Gavin has struggled with lately, and it has definitely affected both his finishing positions and his confidence. But given that second opportunity, he went back out there and made a couple of GOOD passes! That was a big step forward for him and exactly what we wanted to see. Even though this weekend didn’t go so great for Gavin, he managed to lock in second place for the triple crown!
This weekend was exhausting. It tested the drivers, the cars, the crew, and probably everyone’s patience 😂 — but these boys NEVER QUIT.
Running five cars between two kids over a weekend like this takes a village, and none of it would be possible without the people who support these boys both on and off the track.
To everyone who helps turn wrenches, gives advice, supports our program, cheers for the boys, and continues to believe in them — THANK YOU! 💙
We didn’t leave Fall Nationals with all the trophies we wanted, but we left with more experience, more confidence, and two boys who kept fighting no matter what was thrown at them.
That’s a win in our book.
Special thanks to Raber Performance for all the support!
Thank you Flash Products for all the fast motors and support! Special thanks to Bos Racing for the extra QT after racing! Gavin loves his Brex!
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