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May 11th 2008:
Cody Johnson's
weekend at Monticello, FL
Cody arrived
at Monticello with huge expectations for another great weekend. But
sometimes things just don't work out as planned.
Here's Cody's story for Round
#3 of the Florida WKA Series: "Monticello
Raceway was the site of the 3rd race of the 2008 WKA Florida Championship
series. My dad and I arrived at the Monticello Raceway early Friday morning with
my kart and Yamaha motor in the back of our truck, we have found out that if you
are not pulling a huge trailer it saves you a lot off gas and money, well any
way Fridays practice went pretty good for me I was fast all day in and out of
the draft, I tried not to put to much time on my motor so I could save it for
the race. Come Saturday morning we went out for a couple of practices and the
started getting ready for Qualifying. This weekend we decided to save money and
not use new tires. Without new tires I Qualified 4th but I was not the least bit
worried because I knew all our tires would be equal come the final.
The start of the pre-final was hectic dash into the first corner which just
happens to be a hairpin. Somebody does not decide to use his brakes and pushes
someone into the corner which in turn piles the whole field in the corner except
the leader and he check out! I on the other hand fell all the way back to last
or around there but I slowly worked my way to second and that is where I would
start the final.
In the start of the final the leader got a huge advantage so the track officials
had a complete restart in the second restart I came out third and I had my tire
pressure adjusted so the they would come in later in the run, just a couple of
laps into the final we where heading into the hair-pin in the back when all of a
sudden I was hit really hard from the behind by the fourth place kart making me
lose the leaders and fall back to 6th place and that's where I finished.
I learned when something like this happens you just need to stay calm and every
thing will work it self out. I would like to thank my mom and dad and all the
people that help me like Switch racing motors, Corey Reeves, Wes Phillips, Rudy
and all the people
from
RYSA
Racing and Richard Gray."
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April 15th 2008:
Cody Johnson joins
the RYSA Racing lineup of drivers
The driver lineup at
RYSA Racing has just been strengthened with the addition of Cody Johnson. Cody
plans on running the 2008 R30CX in the Rotax Jr class and in the Yamaha Can
class. Cody is a regular in the Florida Winter Tour, the Florida RotaxMax
Challenge Series and the Florida WKA Series.
Cody took delivery of his new Birel at this month's FL WKA race at Homestead and
with no prior testing quickly jumped to the top of the time charts on Friday
practice and then grabbed the pole and swept the rest of the weekend. What
a way to start with a new manufacturer.
Cody has the following to say: "The start
of the second WKA Florida championship series premiering in Homestead was great
race for me on my new kart Birel R30.
I think making the transition from Arrow to
Birel was a great decision to make, the Birel handled a lot better than the
Arrow and I was a lot faster.
Saturday started off with rainy conditions in the
morning but stopped and started to dry off during qualifying but still had to
run rain tires.
I got the pole leading into the pre final and held onto it with
second and third place right behind me, after the pre final we found out that
our right rear hub had slid in and had effected the handling giving the second
and third place guys a chance to catch up to me.
To start the final we had
changed a couple things and where pretty confidante that we could hold on to
win.
The final was a great race with me and my friend John Gula swapping the
lead back and forth with me taking the lead on the last lap and held on to win
the race. I'd like to thank all my sponsors and people that helped me get to
where I am now.
Rysa Racing , Gray Racing, Switch engines, and my mom and
dad."
Good luck to Cody in his upcoming races.
Tune in here regularly for updates from Cody
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