Figuring Out What's Important

What is important? I guess that depends on the person and situation. Someone who is experiencing financial issues may say it's food, shelter, and clothing. Another who lost a spouse or family member may say it's spending quality time together. But what does a child think is important? Experience tells us it's whatever is usually happening in their lives right at that moment.

So, when we had an opportunity to do a little traveling to race in a fledgling regional series a the beginning of the month, Hunter opted out. Okay, we did have a club race at our track that same weekend. But he opted out of that one, too. Why? Well, he wanted to participate in his church student ministry back-to-school all day worship event. There would be fun and games, but overall, this is where he felt God wanted him to be.

And that's what was important to him.

We finished out our Summer Series with both kids running great. Hunter took a win and Hadyn came back from her short track racing at New Braunfels and Waco to show how much she had learned!! So with the break of not racing at the first of this month, we had about a month out of the seat of racing.

But with the showing from both HES2 Motorsports racers last night, you wouldn't have known it.

2 - in HES2 ready to go race!

Hadyn set a personal best time of a 58.9 second lap. She's still about 5 seconds off the leaders, but she'll be there soon - and then they'll be chasing her down! And she had her last Kid Kart rookie race last night, so she will no longer be the "rookie" out there.

We've taken some hits to Hunter's class over the Summer and lost a racer to golf (really? golf over racing? whatever.) and have about 3 more that just aren't showing up to race consistently. So lately, it's just been the Hunter and Jake show. Therefore, we've taken the last two races to do a little experimenting with set up. We run in a mixed group of classes so even though last night was just Hunter and Jake in the TAG Cadet class, we had a group of four classes together. That's always interesting - especially when there is lapped traffic involved. But the boys did great and ran a great race. We didn't think the experimental set up was working well, but Hunter kept biding his time and slowly kept creeping up on Jake. Lap after lap, Hunter would look flawless on his corners and got closer and closer. I heard someone say "white flag" and I thought they were on their last lap. Hunter came off the last turn right behind Jake and was drag racing down the back stretch toward the finish line. My racer loves to run like that - give him a photo finish and it's the best race EVER. But it wasn't the last lap - they had one more and Hunter got a run on the corner and made a beautiful pass and took off! Not what I was expecting given that we were just playing with setups. But this boy has such a drive and determination to go make things work. It might take a little bit, but he'll figure it out and go!

Hunter and Jake  - great friends and great competitors!

And he was 0.1 (one tenth) a second off the track record. Oh, so close. Well, I guess we'll keep playing with the set ups and he'll keep driving.

Overall, it was a fun night of racing. And even though there are way more important things in the world, having fun - doing something we enjoy - and spending time with family - that's what was important to us last night.


Let's go do it again next weekend!