Been busy as hell since the race and wanted to do a proper write up.
Last I left off it was Thursday night. I had class on Friday morning that I could not get out of. So my dad had taken the car on Thursday Night and was set to Qualify with our other driver.
On Friday morning we started with a DE/Practice session. Goes smoothly my dad and Kirk got about 5 laps each in the car in practice. Qualifying starts and About an hour in Jeff from SpeedyCop, Most famous for his Lemons builds, Blows his 400k Mile Cosworth motor.
With the new pavement at the Glen and the fact that it started to rain meant that they could not use speedy dry on the track. So they spent about 2-3 Hours cleaning that up. About the time they finished I finally arrived at the track. After never seeing the track I jump in the car and qualify for the next hour. Got to learn the track a bit and feel the car out and everything was all good!
We ended up Qualifying 1st In class 3.
So Saturday morning we start the race with Kirk in the car. Everything is going well, the first pit stop rolls around and my dad gets in the car. Everything went fine with his stint also. Finally after about 3 hours of race time I get my turn to go in the car.
First impressions-
This car is a Monster! Im having a great ass time! This sound coming from the engine is like a symphony. The gear changes are crisp and perfect. Even tho the car already had 3 hours of race time on it everything still felt great. With the full Cortex Suspension this car could handle! I was carrying the same speed through corners as most of the BMW's in the race.
After About an hour I Jump out of the car and Kirk goes in. We finish the day with no issues. The only thing was that they bumped us up from class 3 to Class 4. We were on track to take a podium in Class 3 but class 4 is where we belong and I could not argue. Ended up 12th in class and 18th Overall. All in all a great day with ZERO issues with the car!
Here I am reflecting the day in the car
At the awards ceremony for Day 1 I took the opportunity to get a picture with Randy Pobst. He was racing in a Black E46 M3. He ended up 3rd Overall. It is a pretty cool feeling to say that you got to race with professional drivers like Randy.
After that on Saturday night we did started to do our maintenance for the next day. We found out that we went threw an ENTIRE Brand new Set of Pads! Front and Rear! This is defiantly something that we have to address for the next race.
We start Sunday morning and about 15 Laps in the Lead car smashes in the wall. Its a Corvette and they said that the rear toe link went. You can check out the video here-
http://youtu.be/_uCKNxthiD4
After that it was pretty quiet most of the day. We were just putting in laps and doing our thing. We ended up 8th in class and 11th overall out of the 77 cars that started the race. I am ecstatic of the result and could not be happier! We ran a best of 2:14:24 on Street tires!
Now we are preparing for the next race and possibly the Optima Street car challenge! Here are some great photos taken of the car on track.