MidOhio Grand Nationals Results

For the first time in Reall Racing history we arrived at a track on Thursday before the paddocks opened. After a few stressful hours of getting arm bands, registered, and parked, we got the karts ready for practice on Friday. Friday went well, we both got a lot of practice in before the rain started. It was very clear just from the practices that we were both running faster than we have previously at MidOhio. Unfortunately the weather Friday night was not much better than it was at Kershaw this past year. It rained constantly from the end of our practices on Friday, to about two hours before our scheduled race time on Saturday. This put our race in jeopardy since we were the first race that day. In order to allow as many races as possible to run on a dry track, the administrators decided to shorten all of the races. As a result, our race went from being 30 minutes, to 15 minutes. As we thought the day before, both of us were running much faster than we were during the regional race last month, so it look like a promising race. As with our other road races this year, we were running separate classes on Saturday. But Jacks luck was not with him for that race. While he was running with the leaders in his race, he put his cart on two wheels, causing to chassis to flex enough for the chain to slip off the gear. His day was done less than a lap into the race. Bryce on the other hand finished within sight of the leader in his race, which is a first for him in a national road race. Position wise Bryce finished 4 out of 5, not that impressive, but looking at how close my times were to the other racers times is a little better. Sunday we were determined to make this a memorable weekend for us. Practice that morning once again had us excited for the race, and Jack had fixed his kart to prevent the chain from slipping so easily. The race started out great, especially for Bryce who jumped everyone at the start and led for the first half a lap before falling to second. Jack however had gone the wrong direction with his pressure adjustments in a big way and became so tight that he looked like a motorcycle out there because he was on two wheels so much. Eventually Bryce fell to forth place but stuck with the leaders as they checked out on the rest of the class. Then, right when Bryce's tires were coming in and he was gaining on the three karts ahead of him, he hit a bump in the track in the middle of a turn and spun his kart in to the “soft” barrier made out of used car tires. His body work was totally smashed and the Reall race team officially discontinued the fighter jet body work. It wasn't all bad for Bryce though, he had a great start and then great seats to watch Jack nearly flip his kart every time he came around the nearest turn. Jack, while being disappointed with his setup issues still thought that it was a very good learning weekend. We will be ready for MidOhio next year I think.

MidOhio Animal 360 Practice

WKA Animal Practice 1 MidOhio 2008