Yesterday I took Dad to a place called F1 Boston. An indoor go kart facility. It was a thank you for all the work he did while out here and an opportunity for us to have some fun together. I thought we should go during the week, so I took a day off from work and we had the place almost to ourselves.
Here are a few pictures and the race results:
Our first race out was for 15 laps. Dad started out in the first position, we started with a warm-up lap and then the green flag flew and we were off. Dad was much faster to start and in no time, he was far enough ahead that I didn't even get a glimpse of him for a good portion of the race. You can see from the results on the left how it took me 7 laps to get comfortable enough to start running laps as fast as Dad. So, it was a pretty good thrashing, but a really fun start to our day. Best lap time for me, this race...21.94 seconds.
Our second race was interesting and eventful. We were joined by another gentleman who started behind us in the third position. It was his first time and, unfortunately, it showed.
I started in the first position this time and as the green flag dropped, we started racing around the track, lapping this gentleman about 2 times per each of his laps. It was very difficult as we were not ever sure where we would come upon him as we went around the track and we both had to get around him while battling each other. As you can see, on lap 8, Dad caught and passed me as I tried to get around the other driver on the high side and Dad went low. He passed both of us and I stayed on his tail all the way around for the rest of the race. I even got a warning for bumping as I hit him as we went into the corkscrew turn. Another victory for Dad. Best lap time this time, 21.06...about a 1 second improvement from the last race...and that was with lapping our friend 2 times per lap. You will notice that we got to go 25 laps vs his 11. The race was only supposed to be 15, but they let us keep going just so that he would get enough laps in to be worth his fee.
So, we felt we were doing pretty well and we were getting positive feedback from the worker from the facility that was working with us. So, he gave us a couple pointers, asked if we wanted to consolidate our 3rd and 4th races into one long race and back to the track we went. 35 laps to see if I could muster a challenge to Dad. We were given the 2 fastest carts (supposedly) and the green flag went down. This time I managed to keep Dad at bay the whole race and took the checkered flag and we both managed to improve our times again. Another second improvement this time too...down to 20.09. Dad even managed to break the 20 second barrier just so he could hold that over my head ;) As you can see, after only 3 races we were less than a second (Dad only around 1/2 a second) off of the course record. Pretty impressive, I think.
Overall, a wonderful day and happy that I could spend the quality time with my Dad before he went back to Colorado.
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