As the 2006 season begin its full of new things. With plans of running Competition Eliminator and building a new car, we are currently attempting to sell our championship-winning corvette. Meanwhile, we will run the corvette sporadically throughout the season until it is sold. We have plans of hitting the track with the comp car by the latter part of the year. 

            So far we’ve run 2 races this year with the corvette. The first race was at our home track for the O’Reilly Nationals at Houston Raceway Park. We did not fare to well at this event as we lost first round in a close race to Micheal Cobb. We sold our championship motor prior to this race so we struggled a little with the new combination. This motor is smaller with a lot less horsepower and required us to take a slightly different approach to the way we race.
             
            The next race was the Sports Nationals in Belle Rose, LA. This is always a fun race for sportsman racers. We get national points for this race and there are no pro classes. For this race we made a converter change which proved to be very helpful. We advanced to the semifinals before losing to David Tatum in a very close race.

As 2005 reaches its end, Womack Family Racing had another successful season. We finished number 18 in the national points standings and number 5 in division 4. I must say that after winning the national championship last year that my expectations for 2005 were very high. In fact winning the national championship for the second year in a row were more along my thoughts. However, I am happy with our performance this season because it's so hard to finish in the top 50 in national standings let alone the top ten or twenty. Our plans for 2006 are up in the air as of right now and our championship winning corvette is for sale. I really have a connection with the vette and will hate to part ways with it, but in order to move up in class it has to be sold. We haven't decided what class we will run yet due to some opportunitys we have pending right now and won't know anything untill after the first of the year. So for right now, Happy Holidays from everyone at Womack Family Racing and thanks for all the support. Check back with us for frequent updates on our 2006 season.

Womack Family Racing made its first trip to Indy this year and it was an experience to say the least. The long 16-hour tow consisted of cloudiness and rain. When we arrived on Tuesday afternoon, they had us to park in the staging lanes due to the inclement weather. Wednesday morning we were up bright and early to park and tech-in the car. ^ Indy!!! We were finally there and what a sight to see. ^ Trailers and motor homes were parked from one end of the track to another. We rolled the car out of the trailer, filled out the tech card and went to get our credentials after tech. ^ Everything went smoothly and we made our first time trial around noon.

Little did I know around 3:30 P.M. while riding the moped, I would get T-boned by two guys speeding on another moped? I started to make a u-turn in the road when I was hot. I dropped the moped and felt my foot throbbing and getting really wet. I looked down and my shoe was drenched in blood. The race track personnel immediately came over to assist. I was afraid to even take my shoe off to look at the damage. ^ I was then hauled off to the track on-site medical facility to have my foot checked out. The people there were very helpful, kind, and told me I needed to go to the emergency room to be sure there were no broken bones and that nothing was inside my foot. By this time I’m thinking that my long awaited first trip to Indy was ruined before it even started. ^ My dad took me to the emergency room and as expected it took the rest of the evening to get out of there.

I missed the second time-run for the day and got back to the track that night around 10:00 P.M. Luckily, whatever cut my foot went right between tendons and nothing was broken. Seven stitches later, the doctor told me that it was ok for me to continue to drive, but I would experience pain throughout the healing process. There’s nothing a little ibuprofen won’t cure. Everything was fine until about 1:00 A.M. on Thursday morning when the pain in my foot woke me up; so much for a good night’s rest that night. Thursday’s time trial went pretty smooth as my foot really wasn’t a problem driving the car. Getting around the trailer and stepping in and out of the car was a different story. We made it past the first round on Friday morning and had the rest of the day to check out the Hemi shootout and class eliminations.

Saturday came around, yet more interesting things happened. It was time for the second round; I did my burnout, went through my routine, staged the car and let the trans-brake button go and the car launched hard. ^ Everything went as planned until around 1000 feet when I was starting to catch my opponent and the steering wheel was off the column and in my hands. While trying to remain calm and yet still win the race I tried to slide it back into place but failed. The car was starting to drift to the wall so I dropped the wheel and grabbed the column in attempt to pull the car back to the center of the groove. I was able to win the round but now I had to stop the car without crashing. The car still drifting towards the wall I was able to grab the column again to pull it back to the center and stop the car in the middle of the shutdown area while I snapped the wheel back in place. I came back to the pit area and my dad told me he had the taken the wheel off the night before while working on the car and must not have snapped the wheel back on properly. ^ At this point I’m thinking what else could go wrong. ^ First my foot, now this. The good thing is that we’re still making rounds throughout all of the troubles we encountered. ^ It’s on to round 3 and now we’re back on our game. ^ At least we thought we were on our game until I did my burnout and the car chaffered the tires really hard when I released the throttle. At this point the car lost fire and I couldn’t restart it. That was the end of our Indy experience. Come to find out when we towed the car back to the trailer the coil wire somehow detached itself from the coil, and the whole time we had the wrong wire end on the coil.

We also have a new sponsor:

After all of the parts breakage at the Cajun Nationals in Bella Rose, LA, and Dallas we headed to Shreveport, LA for the divisional event. With a fresh motor and brand new transmission we were ready for battle. The car ran great but the driver was sub par. WE lost in the first round due to a horrible light. With disappointment in our hearts all we could do was try to put that race behind us and head to Cherokee Motorsports Park in Rusk, TX. We won this race last year so we had to make a good showing in defense of our title. With exception of the extremely hot weather we had a great time. Everything came together and we were able to come away with another victory for the second year in a row at this race. Winning this race put us at number 11 in the national points. We are looking forward to defending our national title and things are starting to look good for us. Knock on wood, but this race is where the championship run started last year!!!!

* Special win because my girlfriend and sponsor (Tutu’s Global Travel) attended.