Smooth

One word...smooth. Another word...flyin'! Those are the words I heard about Hunter last night at North Texas Karters Spring 4 race. And yeah, from what I was watching, I think those are accurate words.

We had a pretty good sized class to race with yesterday. We had a couple of boys that raced with

us at the end of last year that came back in yesterday. Add to that Hunter and the usual two he races with and then grouped with a couple more classes, we had a group of 9 ready to go race together. The qualifying round got red flagged right off the bat due to a wreck that, well...I'm still not sure what happened...all I know is Hunter spun off the track - he said he took a corner too fast before his tires were warmed up - but it was a corner away from others who also must've taken one too fast and piled up. Still, it put Hunter back in the pack when they red flagged the heat. When they restarted, he was in 6th position. But one by one, he picked off the karts in front of him and got the best time in the heat.

During the pre-final AND final heats, he took off from the pack and eventually started picking off lapped karts one after another. We were there last year at this time...we know how it feels to see that front runner coming up behind your kid's kart...so we don't cheer for that, but pray that he is being very cautious when he is passing traffic. And he is. He is a very smart driver. And when he would pass two at one time on a corner, we would hear "whoooo!!!" coming from around the spectator area. It does make a parent proud to hear your child being cheered. We also were told later there was a dad and his sons watching "the blue kid" because he was doing so well.

We have another club race next week and we are getting ready for the next round of the Southwest Regional Cup Series racing the following weekend at our track. We're praying that "the blue kid" can keep running as smooth as he did yesterday!

Go, Hunter, Go!