~This is my daughter Melanie's race car, she has decided to follow her dad and give racing a try. She went from cheer, for which she had competed for 5 years, three with an elite team out of Modesto "Power Cheer". Her  team took the Grand National twice, National wins several times and countless Regionals.~

  ~Her dad started racing at Merced Speedway when she was 4 in 1996, he started in the California Lil' Trucks and won the Championship one year, since then he has been racing in the IMCA Modified class, you can check his web site out.~

  ~We received a letter from Merced Speedway about 8 to 6 weeks prior to the start of the season with information that they were going to start this new class for 14 years and up. Melanie being 15 decided to give it a try. (For more info on this class go to link page).~

  ~End of 2007 season Melanie had totaled her 1st car with an incident with one of her competitors. She received a new car from 8T8 Jim Brewers sister and brother law. during the season they had a high of 5 cars, a few weeks of 3 about half the season with 2. She finished the season with the Track and State Championship, 19th in the nation out of more than 129 competitors. She is eager to go into the Hobby Stocks class, we have decided though to have her race one more year in this class.~

  ~2008 ended the year with the Merced Track Championship, plus tied for 2nd in the State, she because of not racing the 4 scheduled races at Chowchilla lost out of the State Championship, They didn't do rookie of the year last year, instead they did it this year and Melanie didn't qualify for it since she already raced a full year. Car has a new owner.~

  ~She is going to hang out with friends and get ready to finish her last year of High School this year~