revvhappy wrote:I stopped by the Austin garage Saturday night to compliment their driving. They have great awareness and aren't afraid to "race" faster cars when it's not the right time to point someone by. Very courteous and fun to be on track with.
Totally agree. Raced another car down the straight in the last session and passed Austin Powerless into T1. To my surprise, I heard a lockup and realized that AP must have some serious brakes and I turned down on them in T1. Tried to wave 'sorry' the next time around. The car may be 'slow,' but is well driven and can stop like a mofo.
Sorry for being a dick. I wanted to come find you after the finish, but well..you guys won and all, so you were busy. Just glad I didn't collect a class leader at the end of the race. I really strive not to be a dick and haven't gotten a BF personally in 7 years of doing this. I owe you a beer, or I'll clean your windshield or something.
Straight Outta Camden got a BF for brake lights stuck ON 2nd session on Sat. That took me an hour to fix in Hell's Own Jungle Gym, upside down, standing on my head and working in a sea of white hot knives under our full dash to get at the brake switch. Then we blew the headgasket. Last two sessions on Saturday, I noticed our car was misting/smoking between T11 and T12. The FCC thinks our HuyFong radios are way cheatier than Lemons thinks our car is (let's just say we knew about the spaghetti dinner before the fire department came by,) and failed (predictably,) so I just sat and watched, waiting for the imminent checker flag or flat tow. The last 2.5 hours on Sat were run with no water. It was pressurizing the water jacket with combustion gasses...after the water was gone, we were running the world's only aircooled Honda with four wheels.
Last time it blew the engine at hour 6 and we swapped in a spare...which blew up 10 laps later. This time, it ran all weekend on a BHG.
Black flags: One driver drove straight off T1 and self reported, one got railroaded by a BMW and spun coming out of T14 and self reported.
Other events: I was driving in the first stint and shot through the fracas with the van, Crown Vic, Supra, and Ironman. Whew. https://youtu.be/GHFhDMh_8KY
All in all, a great weekend of racing. After spending the last 5 years in "the other" series, it was great to come back to Lemons, where we aren't the only people sleeping in tents. Anyway...better than the last time...we got A0 this time instead of 61 penalty laps for a bone stock D16 with cheapo Craigslist coilovers and a crunched header. Judge Phil loves his Hondas, and who can blame him? GI JOSE was the only other team I saw with dubious enough judgment to run a single cam Civic...we'll be looking for a B swap so we can get down to B0 like the rest of them.
Special thanks to Curt, Craig and the rest of Terminally Confused for feeding us, and especially "3LCraig" for risking all of the places slag might go while welding in a kilt and fixing our roll cage, which failed tech for the first time since 2003 due to a pinhole on the top of the main hoop.
This is a truly special event and group of people....something to look back on and consider the good old days. I'm proud to be a small part of it.