Well - it's taken James 18months of Go Kart Racing to achieve it BUT he finally won not only his first race win ever BUT his second race win AND then his first round win and therefore received his first ever FIRST place trophy!
It was a day filled with much excitement - he was racing in his new Go Kart and his practice times in it over the holiday break, had been quite favourable - he tells us that the kart sticks to the track better than the other one - but whether that would translate once he was racing remained to be seen.
So, today was the start of the 2009 Karting season and James had a simply fantastic day!
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Heat 1 - 1st
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Heat 2 - 1st
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Heat 3 - 2nd
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Final Race - 2nd
I'm not sure who was more excited to see James take out his first race win ever - James, his Dad OR his very proud Mum! To then go and win the second race was even more wonderful because we new that he was looking good for a great end of day result too! We just had our fingers crossed that he wouldn't be on the end of any misfortune. Thankfully, he had a relatively smooth run and although totally exhausted by the end of the day, he was declared the winner of the days racing in his Midget class!
As you can imagine, this trophy is not only going to school tomorrow for 'Show & Tell' BUT is going to be one he treasures for quite some time!

Congratulations James - we are all so very proud of your wonderful achievement today - see - patience and persistance does pay off!
Until next time,