My New Helmet

The new helmet that my Dad ordered arrived a few weeks ago in the mail. We sent it to get painted with my team logo. We picked it up this past Sunday. I like the way it looks very much. It has blue on the top, a yellow lightning bolt outlined in red, in the middle it is black, and there is a red line. Above and below this line are my logo and my name. There is some blue on the bottom and some red detail. This helmet will be getting a lot of use because I am going to be racing two cars. I hope it won't get scratched.

More About Me and F1 Commentary

I started racing microd cars last year, the spring and summer of 2006. My Dad had seen a microd car the previous summer when he was in a vintage sports car race up in Watkins Glen, New York. He looked up more about them online when he got back home and we decided that winter that I would race one the next season. We bought a car and I ran it in one event, but we had trouble with it so we bought another one. My Dad is going to fix the first car some day and one of my other 2 brothers will get to race it. We bought the second car from some go-karting friends. We raced that car six times. I didn't win the first 5 events, but I won the sixth race, The Hillcrest Cup race that I mentioned in my last post.

I watched the Formula One race yesterday. This week's race was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I was hoping that Kimi Raikkonen would win, so I was kind of disappointed that he didn't win. There weren't very many accidents or crashes in the race, this was good. One time I watched a race where it was raining and there were so many crashes that only two people ended up on the podium at the end! This was a few years ago, so I can't remember which race it was. I wish that Felipe Massa hadn't gone off the track in the first couple laps.

My Dad ordered me a new helmet this week. It's tight on me but that's the way it's supposed to be. My helmet last year fit more loosely. My Dad is wondering if I will even get use of the helmet for 2 seasons.

My Introduction

Hello, I am 9 years old and I am a big fan of auto racing. I started this blog so that I can talk about all the ways that I like cars. I'd like to know what you like about cars too.

I like playing with Hot Wheels and have been collecting them since I was 2 or 3 years old. I have been watching auto racing with my Dad since I was a baby, so my Mom tells me. I can remember watching races since I was about 3 or 4. My favorite type of racing is Formula One and my favorite F1 drive has been Michael Schumacher. I also like NASCAR. My favorite driver in NASCAR is Juan Pablo Montoya, who used to race in the Formula One series.

I started driving go-karts when I was seven. Last year, I raced in a series up in New York, the Mid-State Microd Club. "Microds" are actually "micro hotrods", which are similar to go-karts but they have more protection for the driver.

I had lots of fun racing there. At the end of the season was an event called "The Hillcrest Cup" I won that race, which was the only trophy event in that series. I came in last place in points for the season, but I was only able to race in 6 out of the 12 races. We live a 5 hour drive from where this takes place, so we cannot make it to all the races.

When I'm not racing I like to play with my Hot Wheels. I have more than 50 of them. I have them organized into groups according to what type of car they are.