July 25, 2009 Saturday Night Live Series #3

After the rough couple of weeks we've had lately we were really looking forward to a good night. We went into the weekend feeling pretty good after having worked on the kart and the driver a little bit over the previous week. Jack went out for the first round of practice and drove really well. The kart seemed to be running great. We skipped 2nd practice and went onto Time Trials. The times seemed to be really fast during time trials and with Jack going out last we had to wait for everyone else to run before we knew where we would end up. Jack went out on lap one and pulled a 9.3, a full tenth faster than the current leader giving him the pole position on his first lap!! His second lap dropped down into the two's and we really got excited. Jack was starting from the pole and had a really fast kart. The changes we had made combined with the track conditions and the way Jack was driving were working perfectly together.
Jack led the 9 karts onto the track for the feature. This would be the largest field Jack had ever run against in the Tiger Sprint. Jack easily jumped out to lead the field for lap one, but the 4 car of Gabriel Camuso spun out coming around turn 4 bringing out the caution. Since they hadn't completed a lap they lined them back up in starting position for a do-over. Jack raced TJ Bleau for the lead positon and jumped out front coming off of turn two while the karts behind them started stacking up. The 29 of Daniel Wesson drove over the back of the 28 of Teddy Hodgdon who in turn drove up into the 43 of Devin O'Connell causing a back up but since all of the karts kept rolling there was no caution. Jack maintained his lead weaving in and out of traffic as he began lapping karts around lap 8. The caution flew for the second time when the 08 of David Gayman and the 09 of JP Brennan got into each other in turn 4.
Jack again started from the pole and jumped out to the lead. This time the 95 of Josh Gayman got around the 15 of TJ Bleau and hung with Jack for quite a few laps but just couldn't get close enough to go for the pass. With 8 laps to go Jack came to lapped traffic in turn four and maneuvered through it without losing any time. Josh got hung up behind the lapped traffic and lost a lot of ground on Jack before he managed to get by. With 7 laps ot go Jack had a sizeable lead on second place and drove smart to take the checkered flag!! Way to go Jack! Congratulations on your first SNL win.