First Arena Cross
Well I have finally made some time to talk about J's first arena cross race in Greensboro NC last month. For starters we finished the bike rebuild the weekend before and only rode around the house for break in time. Saturday was a great time he did well in qualifiing in his heat race he finished 5th out of 6 which wasn't bad. The track decided to transfer all 18 kids to the main event which was great! Josh was excited because he got to run out on the track during the opening cerimonies, they have 3 pro rider get on the finsh line jump and then intro the 65cc class as the future of motorcross and they all run ou to the hill and high 5 thr pro's. the crowd loved it also. the main cam along and he had a great start right there with everyone in the 1st turn and then came out ahead of a few riders, a couple more turns and he passed a couple more. I thought he was in top 10 but they said he finished 13th, he didnt get laped until the last turn.
Sunday was a ruff morning we had to get up at 6am after getting to bed around midnight, so tired is understatment. the heat race went well again not last and did well in the racing didn't even get lapped this time! The main event finally came around after what seemed like an eternity. I think the nerves finally got to him and it didn't help i told him he could easliy geta top 10 finish because he had gate choise 9 so he already beat some of the guys in the time qualifing, so he gets on the gate in the second row with the smoke in his eyes from the riders (untuned bike) in front he got distrated and was dang near last out of gate and just never got back up to par. he placed last that day so not a great day but safe. We had a good time but if you go save you money they like to take it!
Thanks to all of our sponsors for the great year to come.
Papa for Josh