CMP Season Opener, Race Report:
6th Place Motorsports has had better weekends… Saturday started off ugly with a qualifying position of 15th (out of 18) and witnessing Jim Robinson qualify 7th. That gave me nausea. Turn 1 at the green flag ended up being even uglier…
Video of Turn 1 from my car
The aftermath of my car
I pulled into the pits and saw that nothing was leaking. Mechanically, the car seemed fine. I had to pull the front fender out a bit with my hands (got some help from someone as well), but then finished the race, shocked at how resilient these cars are. I had hit Cullen pretty hard… It was fun racing at the back too. M3Bill and I had a photo finish at the end, only to remember that I was a lap down due to the pit stop. Fuc/<in Jim ended up taking the 6th place trophy and inaugural t-shirt. WTF. I wanted that shirt…
Things turned around Sunday though. Qualified 8th. I left a Hershey’s Kiss on the seat just after Turn 1 on the start though. Watch the video and you should be able to understand why…
Video of Turn 1 again from my car
Travis rode on the short bus to school didn’t he… He’s not a fast learner, or maybe he was oblivious to yesterday’s events :silly: After that, Laura, Tom Hall and I had a pretty great battle. Dumb racing on my part cus Tom caught us. I figured I would let him go, and the pressure would make him slip. Didn’t happen. He took a page out of the Patton Sr book - the one about not making any mistakes. We fought for a while, Laura ended up spinning (didn’t take pop’s advice), M3Bill came into the picture… briefly (that’s on tape too). Still working on uploading the full length feature film. When you get bored of watching Skeen drive by himself in his How To video (if he posts them), you’ll want to check out the fight for 7th. That’s real entertainment. Tom Hall… hat’s off my man. M3Bill, maybe next time. Laura, it’s always a great fight. Too bad Jim’s Syphilis started acting up again that he couldn’t come duke it out with us. To be continued by video explanation…