marshall_mosty
01-31-2011, 01:51 AM
WOW... that's all I can say.
From my perspective, I went from the lowest of lows to the highest of highs...
The Friday "practice day" started with a scrub of new set of shaved RA1's and bedding a new set of PFC01's... The practice day ended with a blown power steering pressure hose.
The evening turned worse when the replacement I bought at O'Reilleys leaked. I had no alternative other than to go back into town and see if someone could make a new line.
Long story short, Saturday morning I got a replacement rack (that I ended up not using) and the same power steering line as the eveing before (Thanks Ross!!!). The reason the first hose leaked was it was tightened too much, my mistake.
Due to the "issues", I missed both practice and qual. That put me DFL in AI (gridding 6th) for R1. I fought my way up to the front battling both Dave Garland and Dr. Frank the entire way. I ended up with the win in the end.
R2 was an inverted rolling start and I was able to go from 6th to 2nd in the first turn thanks to a bit of extra room that Casey provided (thanks for that..). I then proceeded to have a brain fart not once, but twice when coming out of keyhole and completely forgetting about bus stop. I went off like a hero at probably around 80 twice... I still don't know where my brain was... In the end, the "agricultural" experience blocked the radiator inlet in my bumper cover and for the last 6 laps of the race I was faced with a pegged oil temp gage (300+) and water temp gage (250+). The motor was pulling crazy timing and wouldn't get out of it's own way... Due to my mistakes, Frank was catching me like a freight train. My only saving grace was a missed shift on Frank's part on one of the last laps of the race... In the end, I took the checkered.
Saturday night festivities were a mad house with salad, lasagna, beer and wine (for the two cake eaters).... hey, they are "upper crust" now with their Porsha's... 2010 awards were given out by the new NASA TX leadership (Dave and Revkah sure now how to put on a party)!! The evening ended with Brian Calder and Eddie Rock both drinking wine from the bottle!! We also found out that we are in the presence of a star... CMC1 2010 championship went to none other than Jason Love (J. Lo)... Wade, where are the new graphics for the #3 car!!!
Sunday morning brought a 60% chance of rain, or for the optimistic types, a 40% chance it wouldn't rain. Apparently the 40% was somewhere other than MSR-H, so we were met with a wet practice, qual, and race 3...
R3 was a very intersting standing start... IN THE RAIN!!! Everyone got away without much issues and going into T17 (T1 going backwards), everyone was expecting a pile-up... We all kept our noses clean and fought a good battle. Unfortunately there was some contact between several cars that required suspensions and probations to be handed out.
My R3 race was a fight from the start. Dave Garland and I fought tooth and nail the entire time. The only difficult part was we had three CMC2 cars in the mix as well. Jeremy, Michael, and Corey were mixing it up with myself and Dave so we had to all play nice. On the final lap I was finally able to get past Michael, knowing I would never live it down if I let him beat me... :D A 2nd place was all I could do. All I can say is Dave can drive in the rain!!!!
R4 put me 3rd on grid and Dave 4th. Going into T17 I was able to capitalize on what was going on and come out in the lead. Unfortunately Dave figured out how to squeeze by to. We raced nose to tail and side by side the ENTIRE race. I swear I looked in my mirrors almost more than the windshield!! It wasn't raining, but the track was still slick as snot. The AI lead changed hands between me and Dave probably 4 times during the race... crazy!!! In the end, I was able to nudge out the win by .67 seconds!!!
All in all the BEST racing I've ever been a part of. All you guys are the best and I thank each of you that offered help and support while I was getting the power steering back together.
See you guys in six short weeks at MSR-C!!!!
From my perspective, I went from the lowest of lows to the highest of highs...
The Friday "practice day" started with a scrub of new set of shaved RA1's and bedding a new set of PFC01's... The practice day ended with a blown power steering pressure hose.
The evening turned worse when the replacement I bought at O'Reilleys leaked. I had no alternative other than to go back into town and see if someone could make a new line.
Long story short, Saturday morning I got a replacement rack (that I ended up not using) and the same power steering line as the eveing before (Thanks Ross!!!). The reason the first hose leaked was it was tightened too much, my mistake.
Due to the "issues", I missed both practice and qual. That put me DFL in AI (gridding 6th) for R1. I fought my way up to the front battling both Dave Garland and Dr. Frank the entire way. I ended up with the win in the end.
R2 was an inverted rolling start and I was able to go from 6th to 2nd in the first turn thanks to a bit of extra room that Casey provided (thanks for that..). I then proceeded to have a brain fart not once, but twice when coming out of keyhole and completely forgetting about bus stop. I went off like a hero at probably around 80 twice... I still don't know where my brain was... In the end, the "agricultural" experience blocked the radiator inlet in my bumper cover and for the last 6 laps of the race I was faced with a pegged oil temp gage (300+) and water temp gage (250+). The motor was pulling crazy timing and wouldn't get out of it's own way... Due to my mistakes, Frank was catching me like a freight train. My only saving grace was a missed shift on Frank's part on one of the last laps of the race... In the end, I took the checkered.
Saturday night festivities were a mad house with salad, lasagna, beer and wine (for the two cake eaters).... hey, they are "upper crust" now with their Porsha's... 2010 awards were given out by the new NASA TX leadership (Dave and Revkah sure now how to put on a party)!! The evening ended with Brian Calder and Eddie Rock both drinking wine from the bottle!! We also found out that we are in the presence of a star... CMC1 2010 championship went to none other than Jason Love (J. Lo)... Wade, where are the new graphics for the #3 car!!!
Sunday morning brought a 60% chance of rain, or for the optimistic types, a 40% chance it wouldn't rain. Apparently the 40% was somewhere other than MSR-H, so we were met with a wet practice, qual, and race 3...
R3 was a very intersting standing start... IN THE RAIN!!! Everyone got away without much issues and going into T17 (T1 going backwards), everyone was expecting a pile-up... We all kept our noses clean and fought a good battle. Unfortunately there was some contact between several cars that required suspensions and probations to be handed out.
My R3 race was a fight from the start. Dave Garland and I fought tooth and nail the entire time. The only difficult part was we had three CMC2 cars in the mix as well. Jeremy, Michael, and Corey were mixing it up with myself and Dave so we had to all play nice. On the final lap I was finally able to get past Michael, knowing I would never live it down if I let him beat me... :D A 2nd place was all I could do. All I can say is Dave can drive in the rain!!!!
R4 put me 3rd on grid and Dave 4th. Going into T17 I was able to capitalize on what was going on and come out in the lead. Unfortunately Dave figured out how to squeeze by to. We raced nose to tail and side by side the ENTIRE race. I swear I looked in my mirrors almost more than the windshield!! It wasn't raining, but the track was still slick as snot. The AI lead changed hands between me and Dave probably 4 times during the race... crazy!!! In the end, I was able to nudge out the win by .67 seconds!!!
All in all the BEST racing I've ever been a part of. All you guys are the best and I thank each of you that offered help and support while I was getting the power steering back together.
See you guys in six short weeks at MSR-C!!!!