Monday, March 21, 2011

Weekend bummer

Well, the weekend didn't really work out as well as I had hoped. But, that's racing. Sorry to just now be posting something too. I wanted to post while I was down there racing but I spent more time under the car then in it...not my favorite kind of driving event.

I only got 3 full sessions on track before my motor gave up and I ended up having to park the car for the weekend. Very disappointing. While I was on track though, I did show improvement in every session and learned quite a bit. TWS is a very fast track and as close as I have been to top end in my car before on track. And turn 1 can be quite exciting. Guess I will have to look forward to next year there.

In the meantime, it's back to the shop for the car. Still don't know exactly what happened but I imagine I am going to find out in the next few days.

I am going to shoot for having a car ready for the August race at High Plains Raceway. At least that's going to be the plan. We will just have to see how things go. More to come...

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

On my way...

Starting to get pretty excited about the race. Plan on leaving for TWS around 9 or 10 tomorrow morning. Have been studying the track quite a bit and feel like I know it a little. Hopefully the day of test & tune will pay off for the weekend.

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Two weeks out

Two weeks from the TWS race - car goes to Rennsport this week for a quick look over, a little maintenance and hopefully installing a mounting point or two in the car for the GoPro HD Hero camera. Drove it a couple of days ago and ran well, so should be in good shape I think.

Decided I probably needed to run the test and tune day, on March 17th, since I haven't been to the track before. Hopefully it will make me that much more prepared for the race weekend.