Lin noticed the temperature 🌡 forecast for the week when she woke up and the high in the 40’s on Thursday jumped out pretty quickly.

We just received word from Coach Nester that the second of the two scrimmages slated for this week has been bumped up one day.

Tuesday – Home 🏡  versus George Wythe

Now – Wednesday at Bassett High, up from Thursday.

Sophia, North Carolina – The weather delay could not dampen the spirits of the crew at Dakota Walls Racing yesterday afternoon as Walls reached the podium with a second place finish in the season opener for the team.

Caraway Speedway kicked off its 61st season in racing Sunday afternoon with an eight race schedule that was set to get underway at 2:15 pm. Mother Nature pushed that back until 4pm, setting everything into hurry up mode.

It was shortly after 5pm when the scheduled 35 lap race that featured our Carroll County High School sophomore received the green flag. The asphalt track is .455 of a mile long so 35 trips around would normally take 15 – 20 minutes to complete.

This race 🏁 was as much about patience as it was about driving skills. Four early caution ⚠️ flags extended the race long enough that the next batch of rain made its way into the area, forcing the first of two red flag 🚩 stops.

  The effort to dry the track was definitely old school as three vehicles with two gigantic tires being dragged behind them. Old School but effective as the race was finally able to resume ! The next red flag came on Lap 30 /35 when the two lead cars got into each other, ending the day for both drivers.

Walls was running right behind the pair and somehow managed to slide through without making contact. When the race finally resumed for the five lap bolt to the checkered flag 🏁, Walls was in the top spot for the restart.

When the dust settled on the race, Walls finished second by one car length, capping an adventure that lasted sixty minutes. Walls handled himself well when the track host interviewed him briefly immediately afterwards.

We mentioned that the number two was highly relative to the story. The first example was the 2nd place finish and the next being that the team enters the season with two cars !

Saving the best for last, Walls is on the cusp of starting his second decade in racing. How does a young man that is a 10th grader and barely old enough to legally drive a car possibly have so much experience with racing ?

” I started bicycling racing at 6 then I wanted a gokart so I started gokart racing when I was 8 then I got really good in go-karts so we went to dirt modifeds for a year then the track closerd down then we had an offer to go test a asphalt latemodel it went good so the guy said we could drive it for him after a while we bought the car from him and now I’ve been racing asphalt Latemodels since 2022.”

  “Won probably 45 races in my gokart career,” added Walls.

If Sunday is an indication of the future, his next checkered flag 🏁 will be here in the blink of an eye.

Proverbs 28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things.

March 9th has been circled on our Calendar for months now and its here ! Time to find out if the past 3 months moved the needle ???

Have yourself a Blessed Day 🙌

Sophia, North Carolina – Mother 👩 Nature has made an appearance here at the track today as here at 3:55 we are still awaiting the opening ceremony. It was set to begin at 2:30

Ready for 1st race 🏁, roughly 1:45 behind the scheduled start time.

4:51 – Race 🏁 3 of 8 are on the track now!

Everything here is happening in hurry up mode as they race 🏁 to get all 8 races in after the long weather delay. Victory Lane post race interviews are being done on pit road as the next race gets underway.

Race 4 is now winding up at shortly after 5pm

SECOND PLACE FINISH !!!!!!!!

More 2 Follow……

Way to Go, Dakota !!!!