MMy Ferrari Challenge Experience

[G.Irish]

Our driver Skip, who races Spec E30 with NASA got a fantastic start to the weekend at what was effectively his home race. He had the fastest time in every practice leading up to race 1, dipping into the 1:59's. In qualifying he got down to a 1:57.xx hock:

Skip's car had Speed Channels cameras in it. Both races from the weekend will be broadcast on Speed on July 7th. They'll also be filming the last race of the season at California Speedway.

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Actually I lied. Oprah's Oxygen channel actually had their pink bag of camera equipment in the car


In the race he led more than half of the race but eventually got passed with about 6 laps to go. Next time by he took a lunge going into turn 1 to retake the position and the other driver tried to close the door on him. He hit Skip on the left side, spun in front of him, and hit on the right side of the car as he flew off the track. Skip continued and was really none the worse for wear (except for his dented up 430).

Contact on the left


Contact on the right


A few laps later another guy caught up to him and attempted to pass on the outside in Turn 15 going down the rollercoaster. Skip had a little slide going at the time and inadvertently squeezed the guy off track, but didn't hit him. Apparently race control was told that he hit the other guy and they black flagged Skip with a stop and go penalty for 'avoidable' contact. He ended up finishing sixth.

Of course this led to a bunch of drama and what not after the race. The decision of course was irreversible. The driver who won and was unintentionally squeezed off the track took it upon himself to come with some of his crew down to our pits to come bitch at Skip. He wasn't around so he told one of our crew, 'Tell him that I'm going to run him into the wall tomorrow'. Nice move tough guy.

There was a bit more to the drama that maybe I'll explain in a subsequent post.

In race 2 Skip ran as low as 9th but was able to fight all the way back up to 2nd. The leader had an over 10 second lead that Skip was able to cut to within 1 second by the end of the race but he couldn't get close enough FTW.

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BFH time


Cracked up rear diffuser? Don't throw that away, we can epoxy that back together


That's some mighty expensive....junk






All it needs is a bandaid or two (one of our cars)