In the Midwest Mod feature, Skyler started fifth row inside, and made it unscathed through the always-dangerous turn one of lap one.  Cars are clustered, and banging for position just after the green flag.  But there were no crashes, and the cars began to stretch out.  By lap ten, Skyler had worked his way up to fourth position.  Then he went three-wide into turn one, with the two lower cars pushing him up onto the loose "marbles" where he lost traction.  He slipped back to sixth, and the cars strung out again the track.  It's hard to make up ground when the cars are strung out and running at essentially the same speed.  However, a caution flag with two laps to go closed up the field–good for us.  But on the restart Skyler lost one more position to finish a respectable 7th.

Ev Barrett was running well in fifth place for much of her Mod-Four feature, but late in the race had a basic, driver's error spin-out all by herself on turn four.  Usually those are no big deal, but she did a 360 smack into a big bumper tire, and loosened up her rear end.  She had to pit, and after the race was stiff and sore on her right side and shoulder. She'll feel that for a few days, but was cheerful, as always, in the post-race period when everybody tries to come down from their adrenaline highs.

We had a couple of special guests at the track, Virjean Griensewic of Mankato West High School, along with Beth Christensen; both are librarians from Mankato in SW MN.  Team Weaver had visited their schools this spring, and we were most pleased to have them see us in action.  A local deputy sheriff got to see them in action as they sped to the speedway; luckily Virjean and Beth got off with a warning ticket, and showed up just in time for the feature races.   

Next racing:  a rain-out make up date at Rivers City Speedway, Grand Forks ND this coming Friday night:  July 3.