07-31-2006, 12:14 PM
My cliffs notes:
Sat: Qual on pole by 1.4 seconds. Nailed the start, went to shift to 3rd, lever went up with a BAD crunch but not in gear. Took it out of gear, put it back up, into FIRST gear. With a 9,000 rpm engine brake, Doug behind me slams into me. Most of the field passes and im in 3rd to last out of 13 cars.
Charged back up 8 places into 2nd over the next few laps. Missed the same shift in T1 and got passed back to 3rd. took another lap to get by him, back to 2nd and less then a second off leader and gaining. Then I carried the trailbraking too deep into T4, went sideways off the track. Back to 4th place. Got by 3rd and 2nd place car (again...lather, rinse, repeat) but P1 car was a good 15 secs ahead. Walked him down a bit but the race was over. Finished 2nd. Not bad considering.
Sun: Under the class track record in practice (unofficial). Qual on pole by over a second. Started in 3rd gear, nailed the start but didnt have enough torque. Tyler got by me but I got him back a lap later. Checked out, I couldnt even see P2 behind me at the end.
Ill have saturday's video up as soon as Im unpacked in my new place. Definately fun to watch. Lots of people came up to me after the race to say how fun it was to watch me move through the field, which was cool but of course Im not happy with anything other than a win! :p
Sat: Qual on pole by 1.4 seconds. Nailed the start, went to shift to 3rd, lever went up with a BAD crunch but not in gear. Took it out of gear, put it back up, into FIRST gear. With a 9,000 rpm engine brake, Doug behind me slams into me. Most of the field passes and im in 3rd to last out of 13 cars.
Charged back up 8 places into 2nd over the next few laps. Missed the same shift in T1 and got passed back to 3rd. took another lap to get by him, back to 2nd and less then a second off leader and gaining. Then I carried the trailbraking too deep into T4, went sideways off the track. Back to 4th place. Got by 3rd and 2nd place car (again...lather, rinse, repeat) but P1 car was a good 15 secs ahead. Walked him down a bit but the race was over. Finished 2nd. Not bad considering.
Sun: Under the class track record in practice (unofficial). Qual on pole by over a second. Started in 3rd gear, nailed the start but didnt have enough torque. Tyler got by me but I got him back a lap later. Checked out, I couldnt even see P2 behind me at the end.
Ill have saturday's video up as soon as Im unpacked in my new place. Definately fun to watch. Lots of people came up to me after the race to say how fun it was to watch me move through the field, which was cool but of course Im not happy with anything other than a win! :p