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The past weekend has been eventful. And it was a wonderful 2 days that I spent with my family, with my girls: my wife, youngest daughter and granddaughter Alice. And this was also facilitated by the real summer weather. A heat wave came to us yesterday. Today it was +30 Celsius.
So, I planned to go to an ATV competition with my daughter. We asked my granddaughter if she wanted to come with us and she agreed. Great. In the evening, my wife said that she would also come with us, because she was playing cards with the girls and lost their wish. They said she was coming with us. It turns out that my wish has been fulfilled, that we will all relax together.
When we arrived at the track, the track marshals were already getting up in their places. I didn't know the exact location and didn't turn on the router. It turned out that I took the right turn and had to look for the right passage somewhere else. Everything worked out for us and we found this interesting place. This track appeared only a few years ago.
Of course, I can't help but go to the riverbank. I should have taken this photo! This is my first time here. If you get here by river from my house, it will be 80 kilometers downstream. An interesting place for fishing.
My girls went to the starting place. The granddaughter put on a warm sweatshirt and did not take it off. Horror... The daughter dressed according to the weather, but she also had to put something on her head or take an umbrella from the sun.
The girls are holding a start rehearsal.
The youngest athletes, who are only a maximum of 8 years old, are the first to ride their small ATVs with an engine capacity of 50 cubic centimeters.
I didn't know the format of the competition.
It turned out. That the second race would be for children with 100 cc engines, and there was a boy there at the age of 9. This is my granddaughter's age.
Still others are already teenagers who are older and have ATVs with 200 cc engines.
The fourth race is the 500 cc juniors.
See the fifth race - the professionals!
By the way, there were representatives of the fair sex in every race.
Start! Время 11:30.
The little athletes rushed forward on their iron horses!
The organizers of the route had previously doused the route with water. I thought there would be a lot of dirty places. But I must say that by the time the juniors arrived, dust instead of dirt appeared on the track. The sun was very hot.
The race leader. This boy drove his four-wheeled friend very well and deservedly won the race in the 50cc class.
And now guys are already racing ATVs in 100 cubes on the highway. Jumping and flying have already begun, the entertainment and cheers among the audience have begun.
In the first race, everything was clear from the first lap. The leader took the lead and overtook the outsider by 1 lap. There was a long distance between the leader and the second rider. But in the second race, the leader was clearly not immediately visible, it was a hard race.
That's why we came to this event. Flights. High and far away!
Yes, I've taken a lot of similar photos, and the total number of photos today is about 1,000.
I can't show you all the flights here, my friends, you can say that we are tired of watching this.
My wife said, - I like to look at the start, at the moment when the riders enter from "the wide starting table" into the "narrow bottleneck" on the track. After the start, after 50 meters, the riders had to turn right to enter the track itself. It's a tense moment.
Juniors on the track. Serious racing quads in 500 cubes. The real flights began. Dust appeared.
Higher and further!
It's a good flight! Is it possible to go even higher and further?
That's what I was waiting to see. I've caught this moment!
I'll say here that we had to leave after the junior race. At the very beginning, I wrote that my daughter was without a headdress. The wife was also bare-headed. But I gave her my baseball cap. And the daughter said that she began to feel dizzy and uncomfortable. She got a sunstroke. It didn't even help that the girls sat under a tree in the shade.
I hope that I will visit such a sporting event again. I'll keep an eye on the race schedule.
But there were also spectacular moments and not in the form of flights. I think if it had rained at night, the races would have been even more beautiful. These are ATVs, they're supposed to be kneading mud.
Not all the riders completed the race successfully. There were also moments when the equipment failed. In this case, the device stalled by mistake of the rider himself, he turned the steering wheel too sharply to the left during the struggle in the turn and left the track.
At one point, a commentator said that one ATV had overturned, but it was without serious consequences. It's a sport! These are nerves, injuries, tears, pain and the joy of victory.
But this time I didn't see any winners on the podium, but family is more important than that, my daughter's health comes first. We had a rest at the apartment and grandma Galya and her granddaughter Alice went to the rides. My daughter and I went to the veterinary clinic to show our cat Busik. He refused to eat for 2 days.
Tonight, I was dealing with the issue of refueling the car. But this is a very dark history of our country.
And now I also watched the Spain-Argentina match.
Spain has become the World Football Champion!
Don’t Worry, Be Happy (C) Bobby McFerrin
Text & Photography by 
@apnigrich
