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EMDUB’s First Race!
By Emily | August 23, 2008
Okay, I’m officially behind on my blog and I don’t really have a good 
reason. Whoops! So much has happened in the past month and they are all very exciting events. So, lets back up and start from the beginning.
Chris and I only had a few weeks before I had to be back in Pullman for school, so we wanted to get in as much racing as possible. We were searching the track websites for any chances to race when we happened to stumbled across the Pacific Northwest Super Comp Association’s race at Bremerton the weekend of August 9-10. After Jack Beckman got on our case about not having entered a race yet, we decided to go for it. So, we headed out to Bremerton and spent Friday night testing to make sure we were reading for the race on Saturday! We had a great night with strong times right around 8.90 and we felt like we really had a handle on the track and car.
Saturday morning we were a the track early and met the group of racers in the Super Comp Association. They
are all very nice people who passionately love racing in the Super Comp class. They are casual and really out there to race. I was welcomed with open arms and they all offered as much advice as possible. I honestly could not have asked for a better group of people to help me get into the racing scene. They had a race scheduled for Saturday and Sunday in order to get the most racing in as possible. We had two qualifying runs in Saturday and were getting ready to race when it began raining. It ended up raining out the entire day, but we spent a lot of time in the pits getting to know all of the association members and making some great friends.
Sunday we decided to see if we could get in both races, depending on time. We had one qualifying run and I managed to qualify 2nd! Pretty impressive for our first race. We were paired against Mo (a pretty tough competitor) in the first round. I left the line with a .033 light and had a 8.91, which on any day would be a great run. However, Mo is quite a great racer and cut an even better light with a 8.907. Although I lost my first race, the experience was such a great learning situation.
We were able to get the rained out race in on Sunday. We were paired up with Rick Dearinger, the winner of the previous race, on our first round of this race. I knew it was going to be a tough race, so I really focused in my light. I managed to cut a .013 light (my best light of the weekend) and even beat Rick on the tree (by .001)! Yet, once again, we were paired up against a tough competitor. Rick has been racing for many years and was able to play some games on the track (like lifting on the accelerator toward the finish line or being able to ‘feel’ an 8.90 run) and ran a perfect 8.903. However, our 8.896 was not far off! I was disappointed that we lost both races, but my dad pointed out just how well we had done for our first time out there. And honestly, I haven’t had that much fun in a LONG time!
We plan to head to Woodburn on September 13-14 for another Super Comp Association race. Hopefully I will come back with at least a round win!
Topics: Racing | 2 Comments »
September 11th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Chris is right. As we say in Chicago, “ya did good kid!”
Looking forward to hearing how you do this weekend.
December 17th, 2008 at 6:30 am
Hi Emily (and Chris),
In case you didn’t recognize the name, it’s Charles (Cary Maish’s hubby).
Cary told me about your racing career…WOW!!
That looks like so much fun.
Good for you.
I hope all is well with everyone in the family.
Have a great Christmas.
Charles