Likely to be Lost in LaLa Land: Grand Junction SKUSA Rocky Mountain ProKart Challenge

Little Adi and I ventured across the Colorado border to race at Grand Junction Motor Speedway. SKUSA was having the Rocky Mountain ProKart Challenge there May 5th and 6th. We decided the best way to get back into the shifter was to just jump in and see how it went. The first day was practice and I was SLOW! But by the end of the day I had shaved about 3 seconds off my lap time! I was really nervous for the race the next day because I hadn't done a start in over 10 months. Well come race day it showed. I blew my first start... bad! Not just a stutter but I completely dropped the clutch and killed the engine! The nice thing is I wasn't the only one, but I was the only one to jump out and try to start my own kart... none of the guys did that (brownie points for me). Anyway, I got going but was obviously way behind the field. It was disappointing because I actually out qualified about half the field of 13 karts. The whole day was a series of blown starts and playing catch up. With 5 karts in the S3 class I lucked out with two of them taking each other out and moving me up to 3rd for a podium spot. Sunday was a similar story but my starts were a little better... not much better though. Sunday was frustrating because I was following slower karts around, hesitant to make any passes. By the main event on Sunday though I finally mustered up enough courage and speed and started making passes. I had three really great passes moving me up to the third spot again. Sunday's podium felt better though because I actually felt like I earned it.