12/18/2022
Somewhere At The North Pole
We all know Santa brings all his presents for the children of the world on a sleigh led by eight talented reindeer. But did you know how the eight reindeer are selected? Well let us embark on a journey to the North Pole to find out.
At last we stumble upon Santa's workshop, inside elves are hard at work selecting, wrapping and sorting Christmas presents for all of the world's children. Santa sits in his office with Mrs. Claus and his Chief Elf Humphrey. Santa looks at Humphrey and says, "Humphrey I need to figure out which reindeer will be tasked with leading my sleigh this year!" In which Humphrey replies, "Why don't we try out that new snow track we built earlier this year!" "Oh What a tremendous idea Humphrey, we can line the reindeer up and divide them into six 'cold' races with the top two reindeer, advancing to a feature, and the top eight reindeer finishers, leading my sleigh on Christmas Eve!"
So Humphrey gathered the reindeer up, and placed them into six different lineups, and let them sprint around the 1/4 mile track in the snow, behind Santa's Workshop. The "cold" races were quite intense, but surprisingly clean racing, as the reindeer wanted a shot to work with Santa, but did not want to hurt each other. The elves and the Claus's watched in awe as race after race, reindeer would battle it out for position on the tight track.
After six exciting "cold" races the field was set, as Blitzen, Rudolph, Vixen, Prancer, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Dasher, Dancer, Robbie, Olive, and Leroy, all had finished top two in each of their "cold" races and moved on to the feature. The feature would be 25 laps in distance, with the top eight finishers getting a prize of working Santa's most important day of the year.
The starting lineup looked like this:
Dasher Robbie
Leroy Rudolph
Cupid Blitzen
Donner Olive
Dancer Vixen
Prancer Comet
The elves settled into their seats, just two nights before Christmas Eve, and inside the press box was filled with cookies and milk, Santa, and Mrs. Claus settled in to find out who would lead Santa's sleigh. Frosty The Snowman stood at his ready at the flagstand, meanwhile the Grinch watched from a distance behind binoculars. The reindeer slowly moved around the track, and as Dasher entered the "Candy Cane Restart Zone" the field came to life. Side by side were Dasher and Robbie throughout the first couple laps, as Rudolph was tangled in a surprise three wide battle with Dancer and Leroy. After five laps Rudolph had emerged the leader after throwing a slider on Dasher and Robbie coming out of turn four on lap number four. Prancer was making time on the top of the track, and was starting to move into the top-five. The field continued to battle with a lot of Christmas Spirit, but made sure to give each other plenty of move on the snowy racing surface. After a quick 20 lap run caution came out as Leroy, Olive, Robbie all tangled in turn three after they entered the corner three wide. The snowmen helped the reindeer back to the pit area and Rudolph and Dasher would lead the field to a restart. Rudolph was able to lead the next four laps, but on the final lap ran out of steam down the backstretch and was forced to retire. Dasher and Dancer ran side by side down the backstretch, and Prancer tried to make it a three wide battle but came up short. Dasher was the big winner of the event and got pole position on Santa's sleigh.
FINAL RESULTS:
Dasher Dancer
Prancer Vixen
Comet Cupid
Dunder Blixem
Santa was thrilled as he congratulated the eight lucky reindeer, and told them not to celebrate quite yet, as they needed to head to bed and rest up for the big day. Santa told Humphrey, "that was some of the best snow racing I have seen, and I am glad I have a strong lineup for Christmas!"
Happy Holidays From Wheelinganddeal.com!
Sincerely,
Sheldon "Shelly Dubs" Wickwar
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