Rupunzell
Bernice Loui
We finished, problem free...running well.
Overall 16th, 1st in class L3, tied with the class L2 car...15th and separated by 1/2 lap...and 4 cars tied at 244 laps.
It was HOT during the day, about 100 degrees. This caused many cars to die from overheating, blown head gaskets, flying con rods, exploding hoses, leaking water pumps, electrical problems, fried brakes (one BMW's brakes ran so hot, the pad backing fused itself on to the rotor and piston).. There were many teams working hard to put their cars back together all event long.
All our drivers had cool shirts which helped a lot during their 1.5 to 2 hour stint in the car. Our X kept it's cool well enough.. under constant 6,000 to 8,200 RPM hour, after hour..
Two serious crashes within the last hour of this race caused a full course yellow until they were able to get the injured driver out, cars cleared off track and cleaned up:
What cost us most were the penalties and off course incidents, about an hour of track time worth or 20 to 25 laps. The power cars, eventually go us at Button Willow. The winning car was a FORD V8 powered Volvo 244, stripped to the bare shell and driven by a group of very, very experience LeMons drivers. No penalties, no off course, no black flags and a FAST, reliable well driven car.
We got the L3 Class Trophy, it's the piston with bent con rod,
and the Grassroots Motor Sports "Most From The Least" Award, which really surprised me:
Here is where we resided for the next two days:
Driver Change, Mike in car:
Driver Change, Pel in car:
Chris in car, ready for driver change:
The "Little Engine That Could" :dance:
Bernice (me), doing the first day post race car check at night. This is where the broken camber set washer was discovered..then repaired:
Post race group photo, Left to right, Mike, Pel, Bernice (my Hazet tool cart), Chris, Jen:
More later, I'm pretty tired from all this...igsfly:
Overall 16th, 1st in class L3, tied with the class L2 car...15th and separated by 1/2 lap...and 4 cars tied at 244 laps.
It was HOT during the day, about 100 degrees. This caused many cars to die from overheating, blown head gaskets, flying con rods, exploding hoses, leaking water pumps, electrical problems, fried brakes (one BMW's brakes ran so hot, the pad backing fused itself on to the rotor and piston).. There were many teams working hard to put their cars back together all event long.
All our drivers had cool shirts which helped a lot during their 1.5 to 2 hour stint in the car. Our X kept it's cool well enough.. under constant 6,000 to 8,200 RPM hour, after hour..
Two serious crashes within the last hour of this race caused a full course yellow until they were able to get the injured driver out, cars cleared off track and cleaned up:
What cost us most were the penalties and off course incidents, about an hour of track time worth or 20 to 25 laps. The power cars, eventually go us at Button Willow. The winning car was a FORD V8 powered Volvo 244, stripped to the bare shell and driven by a group of very, very experience LeMons drivers. No penalties, no off course, no black flags and a FAST, reliable well driven car.
We got the L3 Class Trophy, it's the piston with bent con rod,
and the Grassroots Motor Sports "Most From The Least" Award, which really surprised me:
Here is where we resided for the next two days:
Driver Change, Mike in car:
Driver Change, Pel in car:
Chris in car, ready for driver change:
The "Little Engine That Could" :dance:
Bernice (me), doing the first day post race car check at night. This is where the broken camber set washer was discovered..then repaired:
Post race group photo, Left to right, Mike, Pel, Bernice (my Hazet tool cart), Chris, Jen:
More later, I'm pretty tired from all this...igsfly:
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