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Saturday results http://timingscoring.drivenasa.com/NASA_Southeast_Region/Saturday%20-%20Provisional%20Results/Sat%20Lightning%20Race%20Results.pdf
Sunday results http://timingscoring.drivenasa.com/NASA_Southeast_Region/Sunday%20-%20Provisional%20Results/Sun%20Lightning%20Race%20Results.pdf
Damn that was fun. You guys that intentionally missed this event made a big mistake. Perfect weather, terrific SpecE30 bonding, great racing, no contact, it was all fabulous.
and the fireworks were incredible!! Maybe the best I’ve seen with all things considered. 30min long as well. Thanks Sandro, too bad you missed them.
Race was great, but I definitely made loads of mistakes. Not driving my race and focusing on cars behind was my mistake this week that screwed me, but I love making mistakes that I can learn from and move on. I also learned that I should line up pointing around Ranger in standing starts… lol
Here’s the first portion of the race. My race started great and was good for 3 laps and then fell apart. hahahaa
http://youtu.be/p2nPOSZoW2o
It was and awesome weekend and a great track! I don’t know why people don’t like that track but it’s a ton of fun and very challenging.
The starts were a bit of a struggle. Saturday had a FCY because there was a 944 in the sandtrap beyond turn 8. A wrecker went out to fetch him but wouldn’t go in the gravel to pull the 944 out. So we did lap after lap watching the wrecker not-help. After 4 laps we were well short of turn 14 when I saw the distant turn 14 flagger drop or maybe just dip his yellow.
I couldn’t see Control, and there was no sound of roaring engines.
I knew that there was no way that 944 had gotten pulled out already. I also knew that sometimes flaggers allow their yellow to dip when they turn and chat with their buddy. I also knew that it would be very bad as a series co-director to pass under yellow. So I sat there paralyzed with indecision for a couple seconds until I decided that as unlikely as it seemed it really did look like the distant flagger had intentionally dropped yellow. Fortunately for me, everyone else was as surprised as I was.
Sunday’s start. I was determined to not screw up my shifting. I was going to slow down and methodically hit 2nd and 3rd. I practiced a bit while we waited in grid.
In the driver’s meeting Jim had carefully gone over how the green flag works in a standing start. I’d like to think that this was for the benefit of Thunder. As soon as the group of us came to a stop I waited for the green flag to go up and stationary. That would be my cue to put my highly experienced and lightning quick reflexes on a hair trigger, awaiting only the drop of the stationary green flag.
Gotta hold 3rd place. Gotta hold 3rd place. Accept risk with fast turn entry speeds, gotta hold 3rd place.
Wait for the raise of the stationary green, wait for the raise of the stationary green…GREEN FLAG WAVES! What? WTF is that? Cars zoom by me. SHIT!!!
Ok, gotta hold 4th place, gotta hold 4th place. Go go go!
Shit! Gotta hold 5th place, gotta hold 5th place. Sigh.
Congrats to Paul Patrick on his first win on Saturday and to Ranger for his first Podium on Sunday! Great job guys!
Thanks Ryan! Video is posted now. Saturday Race.
Saturday Race was awesome with constant battles with Ryan and Sandro and a few out of class pests I used to my advantage. :woohoo:
Sunday Race was a bust when I blew the standing start shifting from 1st to 2nd. 
Sneaky Sandro aka “chupacabra” with the can of Yingling preparing to douse me with beer then rip my shirt. 
It was really slick. It was a matter of “More Tires than Talent” for me 
I can’t wait to see Ryan’s and Sandros videos. Ryan was having brake issues and Sandro was running on 1/2 baked tires…. but hey a win is a win.
Another great weekend. The engine is still stuttering and this weekend the brakes were acting up, but other than that, really cool. Congratulations to Paul, really good battle. My Sunday video is not as interesting, but I really enjoyed the battle for 2nd and 3rd, Congratulations to Sumpter and Scott, woo hooo!
CMP is a great track to race on…hate I missed it, glad yall had some great racing.
Congrats to the new winners and podium finishers
Al
Muchachos(as) please email james@bimmerworld.com for Saturday Results
Need a picture of your car from both sides showing the Bimmerworld/PFC stickers and the result sheet.
Let’s keep this alive people.
Thanks Sandro… I almost forgot.:woohoo:
If only we could find a sponsor for Tequila and t-shirt contingencies.:silly:
I know Sandro has one on YouTube already. Most arm gestures I have ever seen in a race video.
You only get to see the right arm gestures in the video. The left hand & arm gestures are even better.
