New Breed Racing’s Alesi and Ayrton Gerthe checked one thing off of their “to do list” recently…race on the mountain at the NHRA Jr. Drag Racing Western Conference Finals at Bandimere Speedway near Denver, CO.
The team arrived at the track on Monday for the testing session, and competed or made time trials every day before departing Saturday night for the return trip to Texas.
“Racing at 9,000’ of adjusted altitude was an experience as well as traversing the multi-tiered facility, but we had a great time and Ayrton came home with some nice hardware, just not the one trophy he went for, the Wally,” said Lisa Gerthe.
Alesi competed in the Wicked West Coast 330’ Shootout, just barely missed making the 32 car field and competed in the 16-17 year old age group and went out in round two. Ayrton competed in the Mile High Shootout bracket race on Wednesday and went down to the final 15 cars and received a plaque, and on Saturday evening went to the quarter finals in the 15 year old age group and received a trophy and a $500 savings bond.
