Time to Start Pondering and Thinking About 2021

[Mike Pearson]

I don’t know about the rest of y’all but I had one of my best racing seasons in my career. I ran 8 divisional events and one national event in 2020. I worked every day as usual. Our family had our usual gatherings at special days and holidays and will continue. I am more concerned about the new regime taking over than I am with the virus. I can’t imagine that the economy can get better under the democratic control. Gas and diesel fuel are affordable. Home interest is at a 30-40 year low. Stock markets and investments have been making money. Unemployment is low even with the virus shutdowns. I am sure the next few years will be more difficult than what we experienced in 2020. Hopefully I am wrong but i doubt it.

[63corvette]

Originally Posted by Mike Pearson

I don’t know about the rest of y’all but I had one of my best racing seasons in my career. I ran 8 divisional events and one national event in 2020. I worked every day as usual. Our family had our usual gatherings at special days and holidays and will continue. I am more concerned about the new regime taking over than I am with the virus. I can’t imagine that the economy can get better under the democratic control. Gas and diesel fuel are affordable. Home interest is at a 30-40 year low. Stock markets and investments have been making money. Unemployment is low even with the virus shutdowns. I am sure the next few years will be more difficult than what we experienced in 2020. Hopefully I am wrong but i doubt it.

I feel the same.
I had a very good year even though I did not get to race all I wanted to.
The wife and I sat at home from early March to late July when we went racing again.
We are old and took precautions as we should and still went racing and had a great year.
I finished in the top ten this year and had a chance to win the World Championship without even knowing it until we went to Las Vegas for of all the end of year races.
If I could have used all those cancelled races I had scheduled to run early in the year to count points what might have been?

I also can only be hopeful for 2021 and what may happen.
I am at the age where I am not sure how much longer I can continue to compete.
I thought when I turned 70 years old my race career would be ending it has not been the case and at 71 I have my best year.
Finishing in the top ten was always a goal and to achieve it at 71 gives all us old guys hope for the next few years.

Overall the year 2020 was a bust and we can not get that time back however, we must move on and not look back.

I can only hope our Canadian friends can come join in the racing fun for 2021.

2021 is not an election year so that is one thing that will make a better year than 2020.

Rick Cates
Canyon, TX