The weekend started out pretty good. Got the car finished up on Tuesday and it felt perfect (maybe even better than before the crash). Christian and myself represented spec-e30 in the race group in the scorching heat on Saturday with Christian picking up a bunch of time after softening up his rear bar a bit and allowing him to get the power down better. I also did the 1 hour enduro that night, that was pretty rough. With the heat and having already done a full race day and no cool shirt, I was real tired at the end. But it was super fun and I picked up the win in the E2 class.
Unfortunately, that’s pretty much where the fun ends. On Sunday morning, Christian was faced with a diff that didn’t want to keep its’ fluid in it and a gas tank that was potentially doing the same, he packed it in to race another day. Then in qualifying my engine decided it had enough of being healthy lost power and started knocking. The single infield long course is pretty close to full throttle for close to a minute with 2 high speed left hand turns. In the main bowl turn, oil pressure was OK but the 2nd left is a faster turn and at 120mph with concrete walls next to me, I didn’t check my gauges. So it’s back to work on the car again.
All in all, it was a fun weekend though. Hanging out at the track is almost always good even when things don’t go perfect.
