Think of the average teenage girl on a hot July summer day. What would she be doing in the middle of her summer vacation?

Jamie McAnally is not like your average 15-year old. She looks forward to weekends for a completely different reason than a majority of girls her age. Jamie is a quarter midget racer competing in the 2011 Eastern Grands this week in Quakertown.

Jamie said that her friends at William Tennent High School “think its pretty cool,” she drives the midget cars, which top out at 45 mph. It's one of those sports that's different, not like basketball or softball, she went on, now in her third season of racing.

Being around grease, engine noise and racing cars isn't exactly the sort of thing you find the every day teenage girl involved in. But for the daughter of Jim and Mary McAnally of Warminster, racing is in the blood. Jamie's grandfather, Jim, Sr., was the first zooming across tracks such as  in Flemington, N.J., years ago. Matt, her brother, recently “retired” from racing, and father (Jim, Jr.) raced, too.

Mrs. McAnally said, “You can see it changed her,” reflecting on the overall sense of confidence she sees racing has given her daughter. The junior McAnally's late entrance into the racing scene was more about “being watched” than anything else.

In the competition, girls can race against boys and there are a number of age groups and divisions depending on age and experience.

Jamie said, “they (boys) hate it when we beat them,” while her girlfriends Katy Josko, 17, of Telford, and Chloe Harding, 16, from Doylestown, laughed in unison.

In between races, they sing songs, support each other and keep busy amongst the maze of trailers and concession stands lining the racing grounds, eagerly awaiting the time to race.

Jamie, racing in the senior 120 class and heavy 160 class, has a race car with a Honda engine that alone “could cost up to $800,” according to her father.

The cars could range any where from $2,000 to $2,500, and that's not including all that goes into a season that has a starting line in April and crosses the checkered flag in October. But as Mom McAnally put it, "it's worth it. We know a lot of people here, and we socialize with them outside of the racing."

For Jamie, it wasn't the best of race days. As she was getting ready for her practice laps, her father noticed the front tire was “wobbling.” She didn't get to race, but like her Mom said “there is tomorrow, and sure were disappointed, but she'll bounce back.”

Carrying the tradition of her family and a township's pride, Jamie isn't your average 15-year-old, regardless where she finishes.

And as her father put it, grinning, “She's looking to go to to the Eastern Grands in Michigan next year. She's going to either need a sponsor or win the lottery."