Senna had a double header race two weeks ago in South Carolina. One race on Saturday and one on Sunday..
We made the 4 hour drive to Sumter in S.C. Got there in plenty of time to have the bike prepped and get him signed up..
On Saturday the kids raced on a 4.5 mile loop which was almost half the the adult course. On Sunday they raced on the other half of the adult course, approx 5 miles.
Senna got a bad start in the first race, had to kick it three times to get going, he was next to last in his class into the tree's. At the end of the first lap he came through in 2nd place about thirty seconds behind 1st.
On the 3rd lap through he was in 1st, but the kid (Hunter)who had been leading did not come through scoring.. Hunter had thrown a chain and had to get towed back to his dads truck.. His dad put another chain on from a donor KX100 and hunter got back on track a lap down.
Senna finished in 1st after 6 laps and Hunter had fought back to second place with five laps.
On Sundays race Senna gets another bad start and is last into the tree line. Some extra kids from another series had showed up for Sundays race. Senna came through on the 1st lap in 4th, then the other 3 kids came through for their second lap, then another in his class comes through then another. No Senna. As a parent with your kid racing out of your sight for thirty minutes at a time. It is nerve racking waiting for them, knowing they should have been back by now.. On the 3 rd lap when the leaders in his class come through again, Hunter slowed up and yelled at me. " he is stopped back in the woods" So I start walking back up the trail trying to find Senna. The a course worker who was riding "chase" for the kids told me Senna was ok and that his bike had stopped. He gave me a dink through the woods to where Senna was. The bike would not start, it had no compression. He said it got real real loud like the muffler had fallen off then it slowed down and stopped.. We waited for a course worker in a truck, who came and gave use a lift back around to the campground to our truck... That night we pulled his motor apart and found the big end bearing had welded itself to the crank. The rod had about 2mm clearance.. we are now father and son rebuilding the motor.
