The weekend from #34’s perspective....
Having just bought a house and having a wedding on Sat night i vascillated between showing up or not but eventually decided to show up on old tires with the same car that left TMS. Goal was to just have fun instead of getting all bent out of shape about doing well and end up frustrated when the car inevitably sputtered around all weekend. I did throw
a new fancy optima red top battery in it and low and behold the damn thing ran perfect all weekend (and made bang on power/tq on the dyno). Idk...the ignition switch took a dump after R2 and was failed on so I used the kill switch all weekend...might have also been the issue and finally broke to where I can fix it!
I didn’t test in Friday, instead electing to sleep in late, work out (new year new me...till about feb) and have a leisurely pack out and trip to msrh. Saturday morning warmup and quail went well...mostly knocking the rust off the driver and making a few setup changes that seemed to improve things through the weekend. Finished P4 and P2 in 1&2. Sunday morning the track was moister than an oyster and I could tell by the HPDE 1 session that it really wasn’t drying very quickly. Richard intimidated me when he pulled the rains out for Josh’s car so I pulled mine out and aired them up. I went up to a condo balcony and looked at the puddles and decided I’d give them a shot...god I love driving these cars in the wet, it’s just a raucous good time. Ended up getting pole for R3 and threw it away by demonstrate the fox chassis’ burnout capabilities on the start. Held onto 3rd until the last lap when I opened the door for josh by getting into some freshly sprayed mud on the exit of diamonds edge and ended up P4. Race 4 got out in the lead and put a gap on the field while Mosty and Martin worked their way through traffic. Ran up on a certain yellow miniature whatchamacallit car that was apparently missing mirrors or common sense and the Mosty and Martin duo caught me. Was trying to defend 2nd from John and ran wide in the carousel but tried to hero out of it to save the spot. Ended up buried in the mud like a dunce.... Lesson being if you know someone is putting a second per lap on you and the rest of the field is far enough behind that you can ride around for podium points...don’t drive off the track.
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