August 27 – All of us travel to Mayetta with Rylee fighting to keep Matthew awake most of the trip.  It is a fairly decent evening.  A bit humid, but that seems to be the weather there most of the time.  The heat races went well and the whole evening went pretty smoothly.  Matthew’s engine was cutting out in the heat race, but while they never really figured out why, they seemed to have solved it for the feature.  Matthew had 27 SportMods start in his feature and he started in 18^th position.  Before the race ended, there were only nine cars left running and Matthew had dodged his way to a third place finish.  I know I have said longest race before, but this really was the longest race ever!

Jacob had twelve cars in his feature and he started in 6^th position.  But, on the first turn, he got hit it felt like from all sides to me, but we quickly saw he had a tire cut down from it.  He stopped and caused the caution to fly.  He came into the pit and Steve and I dove in and changed that tire as if we had done it a few times before.  He started at the back of the field then and he worked his way up to 4^th.  I think if he hadn’t have run out of laps, he could have gotten a couple more positions.  He was pretty frustrated after the race, but we were just pretty proud.  It was a great evening with the kids.  We had fun all evening and I just love being together.

Back on the road, Rylee quickly secured her position first for a quick nap.  I bumped Jacob from the front seat as we will arrive home at 2 AM and I am up at 4 AM to catch a flight for work.  Worst part is I miss the race tonight at Wakeeney!

Next week, we are in Hays and back to Mayetta.  Gotta run to catch my flight now!

~CBR Mom