MY FIRST RACE EVER
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Here is the SMILE that crosses upon ones face when a checkered flag is waved and you are the first one through. This picture is from our first race in "The Circuit Championship in Salinas Speedway, Puerto Rico" after getting first place in the 1999 First 2 Events. This made us number one in the GTU class championship.

This here is my proud father. He is just walking back from the pit lane wall. He is my advisor and guide for the races. He stands under the sun for the twenty some minutes that it takes per heat. Their are two 25 lap sessions per day, which count as one race for the championship. The championship consists of 6 races. Each race consists of 2 sessions with the exception of the last one, which is a 3 hour long session.

The first place finishers usually stay out on the race track making a victory lap to celebrate their accomplishment. After the second race all the cars come back to the pits to be weighed and to make sure they ran legally.  The cars that run the victory lap are the last ones to be checked.

True happiness comes when you work so hard to do something and people see and congratulate you on your hard work. I thank GOD and my family for the opportunity to race and everyone around me. This is truly a happy moment for me.

Here we se Hernan Velez and Luis Gordillo. They are both racers of the GTO class. GTO allows 8 and 6 cylinder engines. GTU is 6, 4, and rotor engines. The engine on our car is a I4. I4 stands for having 4 cylinders in line.