This event was very special to me; it’s one of those moments that you will remember for the rest of your life. First of all I would like to thank everyone that has helped me get to where I am today. Without you guys I would have not been this successful. My weekend started on Saturday which is a practice day. Practice was great because I’ve been to the track already; I didn’t exactly have to spend my day learning the course like usual. I just had to concentrate on cleaning up my lines and where I could go faster. When I was last at Auto Club Speedway, I hit a 2:04 in my time attack session, I happened to beat that time with a passenger in my car so I knew for sure that my set up was a lot faster than the one I had in May.

Sunday is when times actually count. In racing not everything runs smoothly and anything can happen at any time. An hour before my first qualifying session we were bleeding my brakes and found out I had a cracked brake rotor. Thank god I didn’t go out on track with that or it would have been disaster. I happened to have a spare rotor but it was located 40 minutes away. It would take at least 2 hours to come back to the track, but during the 2 hours I happened to miss both qualifying sessions. I wasn’t too worried because for the championship all I had to do was complete a timed lap, but I didn’t want to just do a lap I wanted to take the gold home too with a 1st place.

When we got the brakes back together and the fluid bled we checked all the necessities and everything looked good. I then started driving the car around to bed in the brake pads into the new rotors. After that I had to wait around an hour for the first time attack session. The first time attack session came and I was actually nervous and excited. I couldn’t believe that I was a lap away from winning my first championship, but I really wanted to give it my all and try to take home a first place. I ran the time attack session and felt really good about my laps but they possibly could have been a little cleaner. My team was very excited for me because they also knew that I had to just complete a lap for the championship, but I guess they were also excited because the lap time I pulled put me in 1st place ahead of 2nd by 8 seconds. I couldn’t believe how things were going after all the drama we had with the brake rotors.

I ran a 2:01 for my first time attack session. Knowing that I had the championship locked in I decided to try to go for the class record which is a 1:59.5. For my second time attack session I really gave it my all. I pushed my little Civic harder than I ever had. I felt really good about my laps and hoped I beat it, when the time sheets came I ended up not beating it but was very close. I ran a 2:00:097; half a second away. I still was in first ahead of second by 6 seconds. I couldn’t believe how things were coming together for me this weekend.

The awards ceremony came and I was seriously excited and nervous. I ended up taking 1st place and the Enthusiast FWD Championship, but then they started announcing awards that I didn’t even know existed. They were announcing the Rookie of the Year award and I couldn’t believe they were calling my name. It was seriously an honor to win that award and would like to thank everyone that picked me to win it. I seriously had a perfect weekend, but this wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for all the people that have helped me. To all my sponsors, family and friends that have helped me get to were I am today; Thank you. This is seriously a moment I’ll remember for life.