We're baaaaack! The 2019-20 Electrathon season ended after the March 7th race at Mulberry High School because of the pandemic. Many of us wondered if there would be a season for 2020-21 because of delayed school openings and other restrictions. Fortunately, our Florida Electrathon CEO, Charlie Harrison, worked some magic and we have opened our new season on time with a race at Hillsborough Community College (HCC) on Saturday, September 19th. We were instructed to wear our masks except when we were driving our race cars (they don't fit well under a full face helmet) and only minimum necessary team members were allowed to attend (no unnecessary personnel and no spectators).

Having still not worked out my issues with the Lithium batteries, I elected to run my trusty lead-acid Optima Yellowtops in the Open Standard class. I turned 103 laps in each race and won both of them. Rodney Schreck from Hialeah, FL turned 97 laps in the first race and discovered one of his batteries had a dead cell afterwards. In the second race he turned 101 laps. His total for the day was good enough for second place. Todd Thuma, the teacher/sponsor from Mulberry High School brought their car, but no students. They are restricted from traveling outside their county during the Covid pandemic, so Todd drove the Mulberry car himself in Open Standard class and took third place. He turned 102 laps in the first race but had mechanical difficulties in the second race which sidelined him for 6 or 8 laps. If not for that, he may have been a serious challenger to my apparent domination. The fourth car in our Open Standard class was the entrant from HCC. I didn't get the driver's name, but they had mechanical difficulties all day and were many laps down at the end.

So, my season has started off with a win and no issues with my car. I hope that's a good omen. Stay tuned and I'll report here. If I get any pictures from someone I'll post them here, too. I didn't shoot any myself; I was busy driving.