08/15/2026
A long night at woodleaf raceway park but the weather held out and we got to run. Thank you all the staff for allowing us to run.
Jayce, Copeland, Davis, and Brysen took there turn tonight at the leaf. Started pretty good after strong showing and right air pressure adjustments during practice. The handling was on point. Once the track came in during the first runs of qualifying we seen real quick we needed more gearing. About 8:30 the dew point hit hard and put me in a guessing game with air pressures. 1st time I've been to Woodleaf and actually had the dew point hit early. During the last runs of qualifying the karts were slideways through the corners. Once that was offer the slick shiny track left us with 5th, 6th, and 19th respectively.
After the drivers meeting the crowd of juicebox karts took there turn around the leaf and it was a dog fight from the start. HFR was represented by Copeland Whitney and Jayce Hutchens and they both had a great time navigating through the traffic. We are so proud of them. They finished 2nd and 10th.
Davis Whitney had his feature and we were really optimistic after the gear change but as soon as the green flag waved a loose throttle cable would cause our hopeful night to go sour fast. Sometimes things just happen but man this great guy deserves a good break.
Brysen Godbey had 2 races tonight and with the double files start get bottled up in the 1st race and loose his track position. He fought hard to get spots back but could come out in 9th after all the jostling for position. Came back in we made a small air pressure adjustment and a gear change and that kart was a rocket in race #2. Just needed a caution to get back up to the leaders and it looked like we might get it as there was a spin in turn 3 coming to 2 laps to go but the flagman held the flag off and the race continued. 5th wasn't bad but wouldve loved to see what he had with everyone bunched up.
Hey we had a good time on a short track Friday night under the lights and we got to go home in 1 piece. I am proud of the team for the effort. Thank you to Rayne for all her help tonight and thank you to Aaron for the help tonight.
Tonight couldn't been possible without
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Thank yall some much for the support. Ive got a surprise for yall next week.
Thank you to all the staff at woodleaf raceway park.