Sight to See Motorsports

We use to laugh at the idea of Austin saying he was going to participate in a derby with Nathan, then it became a question of is he actually going to go through with this, and finally after what feels like a year, it's all over. Long nights and early mornings in the shop working on his car is all it took for me to not be so fond of derby's. It may sound selfish but this took away from my Austin time and worrying about Austin in a derby is not what I signed up for. As time drew near for the real thing to occur I pretty much became completely annoyed if anyone brought it up. Question after question and this constant talk of it drove me crazy. I mean I have danced for 15 years and I don't talk about it that often. But Austin is truly into this whole thing and really seemed to care about it a lot and doing a good job was important to him. So i kept quiet (kind of) and I got over it, which I can proudly say now that it is all over. Which leads me to the day of the derby.

 

On October 9, 2015 Austin competed in a derby in Sturgis, KY. I have to say I actually enjoyed my weekend playing the part of a derby girlfriend. Although it is very nerve racking when people crash one car into another and it is not often looked at as a good thing unless you are in this demolition world. Austin however claims to have not been nervous at all, he definitely wasn't as you could tell by his constant pacing, antsy feet, and stubby finger nails. That didn't stop him though and for his first derby he did pretty well. (Let's all take into consideration I know NOTHING about derby's) I don't know exactly when he broke his stick or how long he even stayed in. I do however know he wasn't the first one out. It all went by incredibly fast and I was super nervous for him, not as nervous as his mom I might add, but extremely nervous that something would happen to him. He went SO fast, it really seemed as if he wasn't even hitting people but driving around in circles at full speed. He even hit Nathan because he was so excited to just go for it. The scariest parts of his driving included me seeing his hand out of the window, free for anyone to smash into, and his front end completely up in smoke. Which has something to with him using his front end too much instead of his back end and his bumper going into his radiator, which went into his fan, which touched the motor? See, I might just know what I'm talking about? Kidding.

All in all, Austin and even I, had a really great time with the actual derby day. As for him participating in another one? Lets just please not talk about it.