NHRA Division 6 Finals

Here we are Thursday, Sept 3, 2009, at the NHRA Division Finals! Here is Riley in her team sweatshirt for the JRs. It has our track name, her name and on the back...

A picture of her driving her car! How cool is that. Michelle, Gregg, Doug & Riley also got the team t-shirts to wear, but they weren't so personalized, they just had the team name on them. Today was a test & tune day and so was the 4th, although only Gregg got to run.

Sept 5, 2009:the day of the Race of Champions that Gregg was driving in & the JR races which Riley was competing in. We had a lot of rain delays during this race weekend, but more on that later. Race of Champions is for the top 4 drivers in points for each class for each track. Gregg was in the top 4 in Pro class. They only take the top 4 JRs from each track also & Riley is tied with William for first so she also got to race. The other two on the JR's team was Nicole and Billie. Riley only got to make one pass before eliminations started and with the new clutch we didn't know where to dial her car, so unfortunately, she went out first round. Gregg had a little better luck & made it to round 2 where he cut a .012 red light, a .000 is perfect, so he was close & as Riley said "He was just trying really hard."

Sept 6, 2009:Well, we had a lot of rain delays today too! We were supposed to leave today, but Gregg had just won his race for round 2 when they shut it down for the day due to weather. We didn't have a motel room for tonight since we thought we were going home, but due to A LOT of generosity from other team members we rounded up 2 air mattresses, a sleeping bag, and three blankets (we already had our pillows & Riley had brought 3 of her own blankets) so we slept in the trailer.

Here was the track the morning of the big race. The track officials are getting it dried off & ready for the races to start. They don't run JRs during this race, but Gregg still got to compete. During the big race they run Sportsman, Compact Sport, Pro, Super Pro, and Motorcycle/sled and there's a LOT more cars than Race of Champions.

Here's one of the rainbows that was showing up Sunday night, we were hopeful this was a good sign.

And Monday morning dawned bright & sunny, but it didn't last. We had another rain delay from about 10:30am to 3pm. Gregg finally got to do round 3 about 3:30pm & broke out. He did a 12.10 seconds on a 12.12 second dial. We were already pretty much loaded up, so it was just load up his car & drive home.

Riley started 5th grade at Millicome Intermediate School today, Doug starts his Junior year at high school tomorrow & just wait until you see the little surprises we came home to!