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For helping me put a clutch in on Saturday.
For helping Sasha with his clutch.
For hosting the IFU1 and IFU2.
For putting up with a group of 28 racers. (Every racer has a story. What’s yours?)
Regards, Robert Patton
PS remember this guy when you need some parts for your car.
Remember all of our sponsors. Build more cars. Stimulate the economy. Drink too much coffee…
Yeah, thanks Chuck!
I didn’t get to run in IFU-1 but had a blast watching it, I did get to run in IFU-2 and had a blast! I can’t wait for IFU-3! B)
Every time I peeked in the NASA trailer Chuck & Robert were putting in another clutch! Did anyone take pictures?!?! :blink:
For those disappointed ‘racers’ that had to miss the event, when is the plan for IFU-3? How about Road Atlanta in December? I could use a little home-track advantage. Maybe I would come in 24th instead of 25th…
Yes, thanks Chuck. Putting the clutch in sucked, and it was even my car. You’re a generous man to do shit work on other people’s machine, especially when they could just turn around and whoop you!
Sasha
Chuck, thanks for the IFU-2 and for all you are doing to promote SpecE30! I also commend you for your willingness to jump in and help people fix their cars!
Steven
Yea… Thanks Chuck! The IFU-2 was a blast. An interesting format that made for some exciting racing and a great event. Looking forward to see what you guys come up with for next year.
Ashley and I had a wonderful time at the event, thanks to organizers and fellow racers for the hospitality.
And big thanks to whoever it was who gave me the alternator belt! I was focused on getting the car ready and neglected to memorize the name/face. Drop me an email and I’ll get you a new GRM shirt.
Thanks Chuck! I had a great weekend and the IFU was a blast.
Thanks to Chuck and Robert for the lesson on clutch replacement. I learned a lot watching you guys help Sasha in the trailer, hopefully I can pass that knowledge on to another racer when needed.
And nice job to all the Spec E30 racers this weekend! we had a large field of cars and no major incidents, I was very impressed. we had plenty of off track adventures but most were handled very well and everyone put their brains and car control skills to good use.
Yes, THANK YOU CHUCK! Best $90 I ever spent!
In case anyone hadn’t noticed, the IFU-2 was my first NASA specE30 race. Although I spent the majority of the time getting passed, I managed to learn more in that race than all the HPDE’s combined. If only I’d been able to get gas in the car and get back out before the restart, I may have been able to get passed by the field TWICE.
Oh well, its was great way to pop my cherry and I had a ball. Many thanks to ALL of you for not punting me outta your way. :side:
I’m going to find the fuel starvation issue and be on the pipe come Barber. As for driving ability, well, let’s just say I’ll fix the fuel starvation issue and keep working on the talent part.
Thanks again,
#40
Joe Tripp
Ok, men, I have had this clutch disk on the sell page before and no takers. It is a 4 puck CERAMIC solid hub disk that will not burn up. If it gets wet with oil, just burn it off and continue racing. (Although it would help to drill a drain hole in the bell housing under the TO bearing.) Contact me is you are tired of replacing disks. Chuck Baader
Thanks Chuck! I am amazed that we can put all them cars out there and not bend anything up…the odds are against us for IFU3!!!
Al
Thanks for a great weekend Chuck. You are a great resource both at the track and in business.
Thanks for looking at my poor knocking motor. I wish it had been a rocker or at least something we could have fixed at the track, I know you would have been right in there turning wrenches. Cant wait till IFU3
Thanks to all of you for the kind words. After all the crummy weather we’ve had this season, the past weekend was a real gift, and the willingness of Jim and the NASA folks to go to bat with RRR for extra track time, as you can imagine, was not an easy sell.
One of my strongest memories of IFU-1 was the opening laps, when all hell seemed to be breaking loose, with cars flying by cars in and off the the pavement, and I was sure that we were going to have a Guinness record pileup of cars, and everybody would blame that sh*thead at Factory 3 for creating such a stupid race.
But, amazingly enough, everbody got by and got through, and we settled down to some excellent racing and racecraft practice.
IFU-2 seemed to start out a lot tamer, because of the mini-packs. Challenging to navigate in a different way, but not the same terror.
Until the restart. Wow, I felt like I was reliving Code Brown at T3, with Carlton at full power and full opposite lock rally-style off the starboard bow, and I don’t know who veering in from stage left. A huge firestorm of dust at T4 and me just trying to sneak through without getting nailed…And yet, somehow, everybody made the right moves, kept their heads, and it was a blast!
Let me tell you about clutch jobs…Neatness counts.
Patton’s car is so darn clean, and it’s been apart so many times, that changing that clutch was a walk in the park. Then Sasha’s shreds itself into a pile of German Hazmat, and Mr. Big Talker says to Sasha, sure thing we can change that clutch.
Well, there’s a world of difference between working on a clean car with bolts that have been off/on recently, and (no offense Sasha) a greasy mess with bolts that go back to the Bush 41 administration. Wow, what a difference.
But, Sasha was game and put in the time, and a rotating cast of many pitched in with efforts large and small, and we got the darn thing done just before last call for Sunday qualifying. Boy didn’t I feel like a chump when the darn thing outqualied me…
The race with Sasha was cool, at the beginning. I was able to sneak by him and one other guy at the start, and was trying to set my sights on Geiger and Travis, but this pesky orange crush was chomping my ass. Dang, when is this guy going to get away from me. Well, he wasn’t. One valiant effort in T9 got him sorta sideways, and a few laps later he did the full Monty in T5, and finally I was done staring at that ugly puss in my mirror.
But hey, we got a brother competitor out on track with us, and that’s what the spirit of racers in SpecE30 bring to the track. Was really neat to see all who pitched in.
Me too: Thanks Chuck!! For both the IFU-2 (AWESOME!) and the many times you’ve helped the newbie.
Thanks to Chuck (again) for organizing IFU-2 and also thanks to the rest of the SE Spec E30’s for another fun clean weekend. Thanks for all the sympathy on my ailing car (I’ll get it sorted and be back out there and up to speed soon). This was a great weekend and distraction from our upcoming trip. Can’t wait for IFU-3!!!