Minnestoa 2025 American Clash Stop 2

 No words just pictures.  Not the results we wanted but a great trip nevertheless.  I'm really sad that this is probably our last trip to Minnesota racing quarter midgets.  

Day one: Travel Day.  A little stop in Des Moines for dinner after waiting all morning for a shipment of shocks.  Our cars got to MN way before we ever did.

Day 2: Practice Day.  Why do we struggle so much with this track?  Poor Tony worked his ass off all day.  We never got to the mall, so we had one unhappy ginger.

Race Day 1:  We tried to give Andrew the best car for his big body and we failed.  Biggest kid across the scales by 40-60 lbs.  Sigh.

Race Day 2:

This is what I wrote on Facebook about the trip and about sums it up!  See ya next week!

guess I've put off writing anything about our second race of the clash because it's hard to put into words what we feel. There are so many emotions. I knew going into this year's clash that this would probably be our last year. Andrew has grown exponentially this year and is not only the biggest heavy driver at our track but the biggest heavy kid running the clash so far. That just puts us way behind the 8 ball from the get go. Yes, everyone has a minimum weight we have to meet, but when we are 30-40 lbs heavier than everyone else across the scales, it just makes it super hard to be competitive. For us it's been about the journey from day one, the people we meet, the friends he makes, and the tracks we race, but there is still that part of all of us that wants a podium finish.

Minnesota has been a tough track for us to conquer the last three years but one of our favorites. The Minnesota families truly are some of the best out there and they have treated us right the last three years. We struggle but we learn every single year. This year was no different as we struggled with how to set the cars up with different shocks and different springs. We just were so close to figuring it out but so far away at the same time.

Best part of the trip? The friends that worked on our cars and tried to give andrew something to race hard. Huge thanks goes out to the Labonte family for not only hauling our cars but scraping tires between the heats and features both days. Huge thanks goes out to Josh and Steven who tried to get andrew a better car that didn't bike but was also competitive. We really are on the cusp of getting it! Huges thanks to all the Minnesota families who sat with me in the pits, gave us hugs, and helped keep me calm when Andrew was battling for the transfer spot into the A main. Huge thanks to the Minnesota families that ate dinner with us and rocked out Saturday night. We needed that!

Onward to the next stop. Colorado, here we come! Oh and here are some pictures of the ginger racer sleeping in his cars