CMP was a total blast. The weather turned out to be great. It was so warm Sunday there were guys walking around in shorts.
My qual Sat sucked so I started somewhere in the back. As it worked out tho I had a blast fighting with Colan and BillZ. I was pretty ate up tho. I got sideways a couple times and scared myself out of 10yrs growth. I also overcooked a couple turns and seriously embarrassed myself. Bill got sideways after the kink which was pretty interesting. As far as I recall, Colan was the only one that had his car under control the whole time.
Colan would later lose control when his wife called and said “come home.”
Sat night festivities were awesome. We hung out around a fire and laughed over misadventures for hours. AR cooked us up steak and salmon. Aaron decided that he’d put his dad down in a drinking contest. He won’t be trying that again for a while.
Sunday qual had some struggles. A bunch of us got dq’d for scrubbing tires under green. CMP is my worst track so I was quite surprised to do a 1:53. I was lucky I didn’t get dq’d for scrubbing too, my brain was on autopilot as I turned out of the grid on to the track.
The dq’s put some of our fastest guys in the back. Standing start. I started 3rd but within only a couple seconds Sandro came charging thru. How does he do that? As I approached 8 I could see AR 2 cars back with a glint in his eye. I turned back to what I was doing, but then as I swooped into the apex I caught a glimpse of motion and there was AR trying to pass 2 cars in 8. Me and my shiny new sheetmetal when into survival mode and focused on trying to help us both survive. It slowed me up so much that 2 more cars passed me.
I ended up in 6th behind Rob and Paul. I wasn’t figuring on challenging Rob, I just wanted to run fast laps so I could stay ahead of Craig behind me. Traffic worked thru us and I managed to avoid any particularly awful mistakes. We got red flagged when the 3rd (4th?) Thunder Roadster engine blew for the weekend. The whiteflag was a couple laps after the restart. Rob tried to take 8 from Paul and bumped him. This put Paul sideways right in front of me. Lady luck was with me and I got by on the outside w/o losing position and it got me by Rob also. I managed to do a couple more laps w/o screwing up and got 4th, which is about as good as it gets for this mid-packer.
It was really a fun weekend. Those guys that chose not to do the season opener because of weather reports or because “it’s only CMP”, missed a lot of fun.
I brought the boys (10, 10, & 11). They spent much of the weekend karting. It was way cool that AR and Sandro brought their kids too. Big success.
I have great video of the last 2 laps of Sunday’s race with 2 TR going at it real hard, Sonny and somebody renting Randy’s car, I’ll post tonight.
Nonetheless, I fought back up to 8th and had a great battle with Aaron for several laps at the end. I ended up beating him on a pass in turn 14 on the last lap when two Thunder Roadsters wrecked right in front of us at corner exit. If we hadn’t gotten stuck right behind the E36 and 944 on the restart, I think we might of had something for the next group of SpecE30s.