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The tradition of crappy driving.
359 black flags.
As we like to say, very poorly done, y'all
Also add in the countless cars that went upside down.
Also add in the countless cars that went upside down.
Actually, the count was 4 cars on their roofs.
Ouch, that's a lot of flag waving and roof scrapin! Our team (#47) had a blast, glad to hear nobody was hurt in the rollovers.
How many fires?
How many fires?
Texas, not South Carolina 
TeamDFL wrote:How many fires?
Texas, not South Carolina
Texas= Tornado's= Cars on roof
Carolinas= BBQ = Cars on fire
We made it through w/ no black flags ... too bad a busted coolant retun hose sidelined us for an hour and a half on Saturday.
I wonder: how many penalties were spins from the rain compared to others?
TeamDFL wrote:How many fires?
Texas, not South Carolina
No, there was at least 1 fire. There was a Celica (111?) near the end of the day on Saturday that caught on fire. The driver pulled off on the access road just before the Launch turn. It looked bad from the spotter stand and they rolled the fire truck out there, but I don't think they had to spray it down much. I saw the team as they were pushing the car back to the paddock (it was the one that looked like it had an outboard motor strapped to the trunk lid) and it wasn't looking too flame-licked, so the fire couldn't have been that bad. Not like Carolina, but we're new at this flame game here in Texas, so we have some room to grow
FWIW....I counted about 80 of those cars I flagged @ my station LOL and counted about 100+ that I could remember to write down on Sunday. LOL
The most entertaining race to date. I loved it personally
great show!
The tradition of crappy driving.
359 black flags.
As we like to say, very poorly done, y'all
Funny you say this....we gave every car a freebie on the black for spinning in the rain the first lap it started Sunday.....now if you spun 4 times in that lap...well ya....black.
Officials made good judgment calls all weekend IMO. Very reasonable on black flags.
I wonder: how many penalties were spins from the rain compared to others?
Funny you say this....we gave every car a freebie on the black for spinning in the rain the first lap it started Sunday.....now if you spun 4 times in that lap...well ya....black.
Officials made good judgment calls all weekend IMO. Very reasonable on black flags.
Baron wrote:I wonder: how many penalties were spins from the rain compared to others?
I agree, we only got one penalty between both of our cars, and that was our driver spinning in the rain in the afternoon, though one of our cars gave up the ghost 91 laps in.
in the afternoon it wasn't spinning, it was pirouetting. I think I heard some Chopin playing in the background.
The tradition of crappy driving.
359 black flags.
As we like to say, very poorly done, y'all
Only like half of those were ours...
We had a blast this weekend, thank you all for making Lemons what it is!
Bill
There were so many spins that even the BumperCam caught one!
We went from 0 black flags in our first race (last fall at Houston) - to 6! this time out. 2 offs and 4 spins. Ok - we may have not gotten all 6 as we usually just came in when we spun (didn't know there were freebies). Only two of those turned into timed penalties. Every driver but one had, ah, talent issues.
I will say that the track was *very* slick when wet. I'm used to the SE-R benig a pretty good rain car. I was racing with a red BMW "317" - and neither of us could put the power coming out of turns. Especially turn 1 - which was an ice rink. It was racing in slow motion - but still tons of fun.
Overall - yet another awesome time and the racing on track very good once again.
We'll try to work on "driver education" in the off-time.
See ya'll next time!
Grover
Black/Green #85 SE-R
Team #25 Speed Racer mustang had a blast, despite having our front core support ripped nearly off the car when it was retrieved from the gravel pit after an off road excursion in T1. This broke our PS reseviour return fitting off and we had to make some repairs, but got back out. Then we tried to totally repair it and everything went wrong, the pulley flange broke off, the tool stripped out (that dang pulley flange was ON THERE!) finally took a hammer and broke off the outer pulley and took it off. Then had to jury-rig a larger pulley on there with beer cans, a spacer and welding, but we got it back on the track. Yes, it was hairy in the rain, I was ok on some turns but all over push and loose on 8 & 9 and dicey 1 & 2. Some cars seemed to have a LOT better traction than a mustang!
I will say that the track was *very* slick when wet.
The traction on our car was very similar to a race kart on slicks. But only when there is standing water on the kart track...
we were madly praying for rain, it was our only hope to make up laps.
We made it through with no flags or penalties...except for the barrel roll maneuver that gave us instant death. 
I really think the Le Car would have handled well in the rain!
2010 North Dallas Hooptie IOE WINNER!!!!!
Great race as always. We were sitting 14th near the end of day one and our transmission decided to stick in neutral. Doh! 2 hours to retrieve a replacement and 30 min to plug it in and we were back but the damage (~80 laps) had been done.
One of the cars in Sundays two car roll over at the end of Pit wall had a brief fire. I am pretty sure it was the Mustang.
When it rained, which was really just misting enough to wet the track, we were screwed.
I think an actual rain may have washed the track instead of just bringing all the oil stuff to the surface.
The turns at the end of Pit row seemed to be the worst.
We have a welded diff so thinking about touching the gas pretty much resulted in drifting. As I was struggling with the lose of traction, I was watching the Miatas and BMWs around me doing the same thing.
I am sure there was a lot of Passing under Yellow Saturday since we had so much time under Yellow.
We had a great race and it was pleasantly warm during the weekend.
Thanks to the Judges for handling the bad drivers and being nice to us when we visited you.
We made it through with no flags or penalties...except for the barrel roll maneuver that gave us instant death.
I really think the Le Car would have handled well in the rain!
That did suck... We loved watching you car run... might I suggest ghetto sway bars and some stiff ebay coil springs?
One of the cars in Sundays two car roll over at the end of Pit wall had a brief fire. I am pretty sure it was the Mustang.
Two mustangs... 5.0 stang creamed a 4banger. They just had bad luck... I blame the writing on it's rear bumper.
When it rained, which was really just misting enough to wet the track, we were screwed.
I think an actual rain may have washed the track instead of just bringing all the oil stuff to the surface.
The turns at the end of Pit row seemed to be the worst.
We have a welded diff so thinking about touching the gas pretty much resulted in drifting. As I was struggling with the lose of traction, I was watching the Miatas and BMWs around me doing the same thing.
The z's seemed to handle themselves really well on those turns... until we said something and then the brown Z spun 2 seconds later.
Now the Miata's on the other hand... yeah... not so SPECish...
We made it through with no flags or penalties...except for the barrel roll maneuver that gave us instant death.
I really think the Le Car would have handled well in the rain!
sorry but every time I saw you come into the corner's listing I was thinking it was a matter of time til y'all rolled
that and part of me wanted it for y'all running out of gas friday after the checker lol didn't think it would actually happen.
overall we were all kept busy this weekend at the corners. turn 7 got slick and the saab #900 and celica 316 took a good hit to each other coming out of the turn because of it.
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