Racers are one big family

A week ago this past Saturday during practice one of the racers throttle stuck open and he crashed very hard into the wall in turn one. The walls have foam against them at the turns but when you hit the wall going 100-130mph, the car just moves the foam and your in the wall. We happen to sit at the first turn every weekend best place to sit at the track so this happened right in front of us. He hit the wall at full speed, his car flipped a couple of times. His car is trashed. He has many broken bones but still waved to the crowd as he was put the ambulance, to show he was still with us, he has had a couple of surgeries to date and still will have more and a very extended hospital stay, and after a long recovery. It was mentioned on one of the racing sites that the drivers should do a helmet pass to help with money for this driver and his long recovery. The next day it was announced from the track fan club that there would be a helmet pass inbetween heats and feature races this past Saturday. This borrowed picture from the fan club is of the drivers of the Super Modified, and Small Block Supers crossing the front of the track, for the helmet pass. There may not look like a lot of fans in the stands but this is a very small section of the stands and it is very loud under there many sit in the open stands. Also this is sometimes the only time that fans get to see the drivers that they watch and cheer for every week. As some don't venture to the pits after the races are over. My mom watched the races this past weekend from the tower so she was standing near the front pit stairs waiting for my brother to come up to give him her money. There was a boy standing near her waiting for the driver of the #23 to come into the stands. He is his favorite racer, and wanted to give just him his money. My mom told him that she would make sure he found him. The boy was amazed my mom was a raceing mom. It was very cute. He was so happy that my brother took the time to talk to him and took a picture with him. Jay invited him down to the pits to come sit in his car after the races. When he came down he got to sit in the car, get an autographed picture and some #23 tattoo's. He also got pictures taken of himself in the car. Kids love when the drivers let them sit in thier cars. I think at least one of my kids have sat in every car at the track. Anyways the fans gave a total of $4200.00 during pass the helmet for the injured driver. Which will be a great help to them.
Jay didn't do to well this week. He spun out in his heat all on his own. Bent the nose of his car. Got it fixed and during his feature got put into the inside hub by a rookie driver that shouldn't be on the track at all. He couldn't race a super stock, or SBS so we don't understand why he thinks he can race a Super. The way he hit him he knew that Jay was there, that means we went down in point standings a few positions. Plus about $3000.00 worth of damage, many hours in the garage to get the car on the track this coming weekend. But on a happy note Great Job Dave G. on three for three wins in the SBS think your going to make your years goal of track champion. Were rooting for you weekly.