Friday, July 15, 2016

Wednesday morning we got to sleep in late and later that day we attended a media event at the Texas Motor Speedway (TMS).












Thursday we got up and went to Cabela's, Six Flags Over Texas, and Hurricane Harbor. Then we hurried back to the hotel for team check-in and team meetings.












                  


Today is the first day of scrutineering. We have a series of stations each with different regulations we have to comply with. We tried at station one today, but we had to fix our crush zones and some bolts on our brakes.  We fixed our problems and moved on to another station, the tilt and turn station. We did not pass. We moved on to electrical and decided to circle back to the tilt and turn later. We did not pass that either due to some insulation problems. We went on to get as much as we could get done today and did our slaloms. We passed! We are now working on our tilt and turn problems to hopefully be able to race. Awe heck,  the judge just came and reversed his decision because we did GREAT on our slaloms!!! We will work on any other problems we might have and hopefully breeze through tomorrow!!!
















                              

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Wednesday, July 13, 2016





Our adventure to Texas!!!!! 




Leaving the school early in the morning.


Truck trouble, but Matthews got us covered. This was a temporary fix.












After working on the truck.




After getting the new belt for a fix that will last the rest of the trip hopefully!


Tire trouble due to Mr. Reese's driving!



The Texas Line!!!



Plane flying over Texas.



Texas has changed our boys into cowboys!!


Our Hotel!


Chili's!!!!


Morning work on the car!

Wednesday, July 06, 2016

We have a mascot!!!

Today we worked on the car and decided that BB's dog was our new mascot!! Meet Chocolate!!!!

Saturday, July 02, 2016

Training and Parades!

Today we had a funfilled day of training and letting all the team members drive! Then back home to be in our local Fourth of July parade. 




Smokies! 





Excited to drive for the first time! 


Not so excited to drive! 















Today we are training for the Texas race coming up soon!!!


Tuesday morning we went to the opening of the new solar farm in Houston! We had tons of support from everyone there!!! 

Friday, June 03, 2016

Steering Committee


Yesterday the team met to talk about today's Steering Committee meeting and get all the details. This morning we met with the Steering Committee to talk about the Texas race this summer.