[patricia hechler]

NO.  I can’t tell you how much fuel we end up taking home and burning in the lawnmower.  Yet another added expense to racing, I’m afraid.  We can’t burn all that extra fuel in Friday practices… it just keeps adding up with each race of the season.

[patricia hechler]

As I see this (and I am sure there are karters out there that don’t see it this way), the only individuals who put things on the line and take it in the shorts is the club itself.  Poor attendance?  Bad weather?  High towing costs?  The club pays the penalty.  Not the WKA, not any individual employed by WKA… the club.  I cannot fault ANY club for deciding to change direction and seeking different sanctioning.  At the end of the day, it’s the club that has to cover the costs.

Please don’t boycott a track like Mid Ohio simply because you live and breathe WKA and you don’t care to support DKC any longer.  This could not have been an easy decision to make on their part and unless you know what their ledger book looks like, don’t assume that they made this decision mindlessly or with malice towards WKA.

Care to dismiss Mid Ohio this year because of this?  Care to show DKC your feelings with lack of attendance?  Then realize, when next year comes (or the year after that), and Mid Ohio is no longer booking a kart event, that it was because if narrow-minded pride for WKA that caused Mid Ohio to fall off the karting map.  Is that what you want?  You want to show the sport that we can’t weather the change in tide?  You care so little for getting to put your little kart on a grand track like that, that you’re willing to throw it down the toilet to prove a point?

My gosh, I hope everyone realizes that we are on a cusp of change that we can either just throw away totally or do what is necessary to make it flourish.  You pick what side you’re going to be on.

I don’t mean to flame anyone, but I don’t want the sport of karting to look like we are a bunch of sixth graders.

[patricia hechler]

Thank you very much, DKC for a well run weekend.  From Suzie in registration to Jerry and Chuck on-grid to Jim in pre-grid to Gene and his family for race monitor and other things to everyone else who gave their time volunteering, you all made this race weekend happen for us all.  Chuck, it was great to share a laugh with you.  I thank you all for making this weekend a success when mother nature appeared poised to make it something else.  Thank you for giving us this opportunity to hit the track and do what we love and live to do.

[patricia hechler]

Congratulations go to road racer Bruce Peck!  You won the raffle for a $25 gift card of your choice.  Please just let me know here or via email or whatever method you know of to let me know what type of card you would like.  I thank you most sincerely for your wonderfully kind donation to the National MS Society and I want to pass on my thanks to your wife for allowing us to ride in her honor.  She is truely a wonderful person.  Please tell her that the team says, “Hi”!

Donations can be made to my link through September 23rd, so if the MS cause moves you and you’d like to make a difference, please just click on the above link.

I would like to thank karters Bill Anderson, Carl Swanson, Bruce Peck, John Burgess and my Dad, Chuck Heinrich, for making contributions to such a wonderful cause.  Thank you Dart Kart Member Kathy Hayden for your unwaivering support these past two years.  It humbles me that you support this cause and I appreciate your friendship very much!  Thank you ekartingnews for allowing me to post this ride that I have made in honor of two karting friends, Trish Peck and Gary Ellis.  Thank you to Nick Wong, a fellow karter who drove from Chicago to ride this cause with us.  I am amazed and beyond thankful to each and every one of you for making a difference to those who suffer from multiple sclerosis.  Thank you, thank you thank you.  I have always maintained that karters are the most gracious giving people that I know and I see this proof with every MS ride.

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