One additional support at this point is driver Mitchel Moles. Moles raced at many of the places where Avedisian learned her craft and while he is relatively new to the midget ranks, he has far more racing experience.
“Mitchel was awesome to have at Ocala,” Jade said, “and he helped me out all weekend. His real job is to win races, but I think it is cool that he helps all of us. Maybe that is his second job during the week.”
Boat and Penn are measured and pragmatic. They like what they see, but they know how hard this game is.
“The best always put themselves in good spots,” Penn said. “You watch Justin at Ocala and he never got on the bad end of a lapped car checking up. He is always a corner ahead. That is what separates them. Working with Buddy (Kofoid) all last year was the same thing. He doesn‘t put himself in a bad spot.”
Boat has been there as a driver, and he remembers the moments of glory and the ones that got away. When it comes to USAC national midget competition, winning does not come easy.
“You are racing with people like Justin who have so much experience that you have to be on your game 100 percent,” Boat said. “What‘s the old saying, you have to lose one before you can win one. Hopefully, that is the one we had to lose. You try to take that experience and apply it to the next race where you are in position to win. There is no doubt that she will be back in that position. She might be a petite young woman outside the car but the way she drives you would think she was a 30-year-old veteran.”
Avedisian may ultimately make history, but it‘s not at the forefront of her mind. “I don‘t really think about that too much,” she said. “I just want to win a race so bad, but I don‘t want to win a race for that reason.”
Don‘t be fooled, there are lofty goals on the horizon. She has already participated in a Toyota stock car test at North Carolina‘s Ace Speedway. With no previous seat time in a stock car, she felt she did reasonably well. To begin to prepare for the future, she hopes to incorporate more pavement racing in her schedule but for now she is locked in on the task at hand.
Sometimes it is easy to forget just how much rests on the shoulders of aspiring young drivers. Jade has to balance her education and she must negotiate the normal developmental challenges that come with her age. It can be a lot. So just how does she handle it all?
“It‘s OK,” she said. “I do better under pressure.”
Her father agreed with his daughter‘s assessment, noting “when the stakes are higher, I just feel she focuses even more. This is what she wants to do for a living and at this point this is the path you have to take.”
If history is a good predictor of future results some of the stars of national midget racing better get ready to see this young woman up front as the summer goes on. She has the right 
people around her.