Rumble,
Thats a keeper! Man what a anniversary!
Well this is what happened, we get to the track and were one of the first one's there. The track is very, very green. What happened I found out later is that they had a car break a engine and drop anti-freeze all over the track the week before, so they scraped the track and completely washed and scrubbed the track so the rubber quality wasn't the greatest at the start. The groove was very narrow, started at 10 ft. wide and went to 4 ft. wide before the 330 ft mark and next to nothing by the end of the 660'.
So we loaded the car for slick conditions, and the clutch had a bad gremlin, the car pushed through the lights. But come second run we found the gremlin and fixed a thing or two to help out, the run started great and the car rattled the tires at 250 or so feet, and had to lift. Showed great promise but the settings that we had were off a bit. The car showed low 4 sec. potential and maybe a 3 sec. pass. The track temp was at 127* at 3 pm and dropped to 112* by the first run at 7:30 or so and not much change from there. So all in all we had a good time but the 3:30 AM thing wasn't cutting it, after the heat and the work we were all very tired, my day ended at 23 hrs. but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I do have to say a Special Thanks to Andre and Lorraine as car owners and driver for letting us help them in there quest. I also have to say thanks to:
Charlie Holmes
Chuck Holmes
Matthew (Charlie's grand son)
Terry Brown .........and his wife for putting up with us.
It was fun and looking forward to the next event, hopefully some testing in between, looking to the Sept. division 2 event at Commerce.
