Bruce Racing: Blackhawk - Point Race #4

Unlike last year, we arrived at the track early on Saturday so that Connor could attend the driver's meeting and do some practice laps. We brought our travel trailer so we could stay and camp the night. This was our first time camping this year and without electricity too! The facility has electricity but they were all taken. We never get there early enough to get the coveted spots and besides, Tom and I think that those spots were reserved for the CES racing teams, which was also running that weekend. But, lucky for us, we have a generator that we always take along to sites where we know electricity was not available for us. Unluckily for our neighbors, our generator is a bit on the noisy side. It's not one of those expensive quiet Honda motor ones. But we try to run it only during the day for the microwave when race cars were on the track to drown out the noise and only for short periods of time. Though not hooked up to electricity or water (our trailer does hold 25 gallons of water), the great thing about camping at Blackhawk is the showers. They are new, big and clean. I look forward to taking my showers when we camp there. (Oh, the simple pleasures in life! :D)

On the exact same spot we had last year.

The boys were excited being at Blackhawk and about camping. They also got excited when they saw Jacob J., from Badger who was in Connor's class last year but moved on to another class this year.

Practice was during the day and we watched the races in the afternoon. Connor and Jacob had fun drafting and helping each other out on the track. We only took Connor's go kart; Colin was not participating in practice or the races here. After the races on Saturday, we walked the track like we did last year. This time, Jacob J. came to walk with us too.

Lining up.

Start.

Racing hard.

Connor's race the following day was done in waves, very much like last year. He was the only one from his class from Badger Kart Club but there were five others in his race that day but they were not Badger members. The drivers were timed 25 minutes and whoever got the checkered flag at the end of the 25 minutes was the winner. Connor finished second place.