My dad went with me to Roseville to keep a good eye on the new motor, My mother stayed at Stockton 99 speedway because my sister was driving her fiancée's stock car in there annual power puff race.
We arrived a little early and waited at the back gate with Jack Houston and a couple of other drivers. After signing in Jack said he would show us where to pit. He took us threw the pits and out the other gate up the road behind grandstands to a grassy area and told us this is the spot. I though this was a little strange, just across the grass there was a live band playing and people all over the place buying food from venders. No one seamed to notice they were being invaded by a bunch of little race cars, so we unloaded and set up our pits.
I went out for the first set of hot laps and realized right away that I was going to need some help to find the fast line at this track. So I started looking for Chuck Scott the #15 car he is the man at Roseville and had won the last race. By the time I found him, in my mirror, the session was over. In the second set I started right behind him and learned quite a bit just by flowing him.
I still wasn't comfortable with the track as we rolled out for the heat race and decided to take it easy and see if I could learn something about this track that I could use in the main event. We finished forth and I was happy with that until my sister call and said she had won her heat and was in the trophy dash.
I made a good move at the beginning of the main and came out with the lead. With the gear we had in the car and being able to run my own line I was pulling away about a car length every lap when on the eighth lap we got a red flag. I stopped and looked around to see what the problem was, it seamed that Chuck Scott the #15 had jumped wheels with another car and put it in the wall hard braking his arm.
After they picked up Chuck's car and lined us up I noticed Franky Winchel, a master legend and a great driver, in the car next to me. On the restart I managed to hold my own with him for a couple of laps but down the backstretch he got under me. Coming off turn four I saw his front tires actually start to chatter this is when I decided to let him go. But before I could get back in line Ryan Mosher in the #52 car stuck it in there and left me on the out side letting David Winchel in the #0 get by. I finally got back down in line and hung on for most of the race. Then two of the younger drivers show up in my mirror the #27 of Martin McKeefery and the #05 of Thomas Leiby were all over me I had to switch to defense as the laps ran out I was lucky to finish fourth.
After I got back to the pits I went over to where Martin and Thomas were and congratulated them on a good race. Then I called my sister to find out how she had finished. She finished fifth sibling rivalry.
Good Band Good Race Track Good Pits
Fred #55