Beautiful Weekend!

The weather was finally perfect all weekend for racing!  Thursday we raced for the first time in Willmar, MN.  Shane ended up wrecking the B-mod on the first lap :(  but made up for it by winning with the A-mod!  Friday, we raced at Princeton, and finished 3rd with the A-mod, and 5th with the B-mod.  Saturday night was kid's night at Brainerd, and being that Shane won the week prior, him and Mason got to carry the American flag for the National Anthem!

Then during intermission, all the cars came out onto the track to pass out candy & pictures, and autograph flags (as well as t-shirts, hats, foreheads, cheeks, arms)...yep, people want dirt track drivers signature on their body (thankfully it wasn't any inappropriate places :) !! They sure are diehard fans! 

Even the big kids (Chris) enjoy Axel's company....

Quick story... Axel is a mascot and does NOT talk... However, Mason proceeded to yell at him that he didn't win a bike.  He was saying something like "Axel, I put my name in that bucket and I wanted that red dirtbike bike."  He repeated himself several times, because it appeared that Axel wasn't listening because he didn't respond!  Mason walked away and punched Shane's racecar door in frustration.  He won a bike last year on kids night, so he thought he would automatically be chosen!  Still on Sunday (a day later), the neighbor asked him how he was doing.  Mason said "weeelll, I didn't win a bike" (like it was the end of the world).  The kid has like 10 bikes to choose from here, so i'm sure he'll survive!!! :)

I almost forgot results after that long explanation of Brainerd's kid night.... But results were just as awesome as kid's night! Shane won both the midwest mod & modified feature! He also won both heats, making it a double clean sweep night! (FYI: clean sweep means that you won both the heat and feature for that class)

Sunday we cleaned up the yard, mowed the lawn, washed the cars, and went for a 4-wheeler ride.  No sooner than parking it in the shed, the raindrops started.  It was perfect timing, except that Mason wanted to stay outside a lil longer!