Wet Track = "PUSH"

Friday, August 15, 2008
Wet Track = "PUSH"
It was an overcast damp day, the track was still wet from the early morning rain.

"Be careful out there, the carts are going to push in the turns."

"What does "PUSH" mean?" I'd heard it on NASCAR, but wasn't sure.

"When you turn into a turn the go-cart will want to go straight; straight off the track."

"Should we go home and come back another day?"

"Nah, it'll be a driving experience. You'll enjoy it. Oh, and you'll see we just cut the grass, there's a little debris on the track."

This was how we started our second trip to our new "playground", this time we brought another playmate, Phil Teninbaum for his first ever high speed driving experience.

Derick was right the carts did push and the debris was bad, "real bad". As you pulled up behind another cart you faced a shower of rocks, grass, and bark pelting your arms, chest and helmet, but you pressed on. The whole idea is to go as fast as you can and that ment getting around that slower cart.

Ron and I both found our way off the track ("PUSH"), through the wet grass, through the mud and into water puddles. "Maybe we should have brought a change of clothes."

"When you guys come back, let me know. I'd like to do this again."

Looks like Phil's a player.