We had a great weekend... Long, but great!!!
The car was/is about 3 - 4 seconds off our normal comfortable pace... (We were turning 27's and 28's and normaly turn 24.s and 25's). Despite that we still had a blast!!! Lots of great competition and clean racing
Saturday:
In the Enduro we got the shaft on the first full course yellow (Pace car did not pick up the leader after some confusion when leaders started pitting as the Yellow came out) and that allowed Dave Z and Joel H to get a lap on us. In the second yellow shortly after the same thing happened however on the last lap before the green the pace car allowed a few cars including us to pass and try to catch the field, we gained about a half a lap back. Dave and Joel had some clutch problems and made an extra very short stop, which without the pace car issues would have made a very close finish, however they were turning blistering fast lap record times making it impossible for us to catch them. Congrats to a VERY good drive, they certainly whipped the ITB field, kicked but against a lot of ITA and SM/SSm cars, and got the Track record in ITB. I think we finished a very respectiful 2nd palce in ITB and 23rd (?) overall.
Sunday:
Qualifying was delayed and delayed more due to Fog...
Stephen went out and was comfortable with the track, and was able to turn a lapo time that would have put him first in ITB on the grid, however our transponder wasn't working. Because we keep accurate times that timing was able to confirm they agreed to take our slowest time rounded to the nearest second, this put the Audi 3rd on the grid in ITB.
I went out and ran qualifying in SPU, and ran out of gas errr.... but still qualified mid pack as compaired to the production cars... and hummm it is interesting running with them, especially when they don't expect to get passed in turns on the outside or inside when they "park" in the turns
The races were shortened to 15 minutes plus one lap or basically 7 laps...
Stephen went out and the first turn was a bit congested, but everyone was safe, I think Rick B had the best start in the 50+ car field blowing past several cars to take the early ITB lead. Stephen steadly dropped back as he was off the pace, but maintained the best he could. In the end he finished just behind Paul Curran for 4th place!!! Rick B beat Dave Z's track record sunday giving ITB a new goal to get nto the 23's next season
I went out an dRan SPU, about 17 seconds off the SPU leaders lap times, but had a blast racing with some EP,FP,GP cars. After the race in impound I told them I needed a bit more power as I ate them alive in the turns, then watched them walk away from me on the streights, they said, thats an SPU car, it must have tons of power... I said no it is an ITB car lol... They didn't seem to get it but we still had some good clean racing none the less... What a blast!!!
Sunday PM:
Got some grub at a Wegmans
(Love that place). Then made the treck home... Lost another tire just outside of MA.. Didn't get home till 2:00am...
Monday AM:
Sore and late for work... but worth every penny
Raymond