Eric Lane showed up first in his family sedan, a Corvette C8, with some new Viper F1 hardbodies to test. Then Team Maddox showed up in full force and didn’t waste much time with open practice, they came to race!
As is becoming the norm, Abe quickly established himself with his favorite car (a Viper V-SPEC) and won the first four races handily.
Abe’s winning ways were only interrupted twice on the day by “Home Cook’n.” Though others came close and pressured him at times. Abe won five of the seven races and was pretty much on fire–as usual.
Abe’s Mom, Shaylin, was very close though and would finish 3rd overall on the day. Kevin Webster joined us for the last two races taking 3rd in Race #6 and 2nd place in Race #7.
We were doing Dash races (no rotations) with various fuel allocations to practice for fuel events. Abe is amazingly clever and very good at all aspects of slot car racing. Can’t wait to see how he does with qualifying.
Overall Results (7 Races)
| Place | Name | Laps | Points | Total Time |
| 1 | Abe Maddox | 291 | 110 | 3407.607 |
| 2 | Steve Stewart | 282 | 98 | 3404.726 |
| 3 | Shaylin Maddox | 253 | 69 | 3451.186 |
| 4 | Kevin Webster | 116 | 24 | 1543.379 |
| 5 | Grace Maddox | 50 | 21 | 688.851 |
Kevin figured out that Shaylin’s controller was acting sporadic, which may be why she didn’t do as well as she usually does. Pro Controller next time!
After Team Maddox finished their press briefing and left the facilities, Team Johnson showed up in force. Dad, Jared, pulled in with their transporter and Matthew and Madeline got straight to business cutting laps. Jared cut some very respectable laps with a 440-X2 Narrow car and Madeline put down the most laps in the session with 516 laps! Matthew is our youngest junior driver but he managed to cut a bunch of laps also.
What a day! I’m digging the neighborhood interest in this cool hobby and am very pleased to see everyone progressing in skill and enjoying themselves. Thank you all for supporting Stewart Raceway!
