October Joliet Race - Who's coming? (Page 6 of 7)

Lemons email says race is full-up.  67 cars is full-up?

Guess that could be.  Often it will say late apps.  Maybe it's a typo.  Or maybe they don't feel like messing with it.  Or maybe ACC capped the event.

I am surprised and flattered they keep letting me come back.

I definitely lower the bar a bit. I am less hopeless when i am only in charge of bacon.

I will eat twelve to make up for my beer you drink.

Wally will take all leftovers...and food below the waist.

I am all atwitter with excrement!  with a small field, who knows...could be back to back U-Body victories if the gods smile on us.

We sucked.

Congrats TaTas!!!

Holy crap, what a weekend!  The B class leaders broke down with 40 minutes to go and we passed the second place car 3 times on-track during the last stint, finally taking the B class lead with about 10 minutes left in the race.  Car finished with the rear brakes worn halfway through the backing plates.

Anyone able to find the MyLaps results?  They're usually up by now but I can't find them.

Saw it in the paddock.  Hoped it was racing.  Sounded amazing. 

Obviously a sportbike engine, which one?

I will say it was fun battle for the first 2 hours with both of your cars for the lead.  Our team has never lead a single lap before this race and going back and forth with your 2 cars at the beginning was a lot of fun for me.  After that our weekend went down hill.  We lost 4th gear about 2 hours in to the race, kept going with 3rd and 5th and stayed up near the front, did a driver change and got back to first with out using 4th gear and then at the 3 hour mark 3rd gear decided it wanted to be neutral.  Sucks having the car break while in the lead.  We swapped trannys Saturday night and were back to have a really good Sunday on the North track making up 22 spots getting back up to 36th.

Again congrats to TaTas, we pitted next to them and they were great neighbors and raced us clean when we were near them, and man they were fast.

We had a blast this weekend the 24 he race woes are behind us now, the engine ran strong all weekend some fuel pressure issues toward the end of the last stint but nothing major.
We lost around 20 minutes on Saturday due to failing rear brake pads and a black flag due to a leaking fuel cap. But finished close enough to be in contention for Sunday especially with the shorter track making it easier to make up laps on the leaders in Class B.
Sunday I went out and pushed real hard sorry if I cut anyone off we had a lot of ground to make up! One black flag that was marginal thanks to the blue #23 turning in in my left rear guard after I was 90% past but managed to climb back into contention until the driveshaft let go. We thought this ended our race as the diff was locked up but we swapped in a new diff and went out to find the driveshaft bent. Most likely from being towed in backwards with it digging into the ground.
Team Lemonaid stepped up with the generous use of their trailer to press the driveshaft straight and we completed the final two hours. Thanks AJ and team for the idea and use of the trailer as a press.

Congrats to the class winners it was fun racing with the A class contenders in the final laps. We have some real good video to come in the next few days.

A few things to fix for the next race but already getting excited for Barber!!

Glad we could help.  You have helped us a ton in the past.  We plan to bring the Metro to barber.  Just have to find a flywheel.  See you there!

Also there must have been leaky fuel cap-itis going around.  Our BMW suffered the same malady and lead to us dropping from 4th to 27th. Bummer.

I was hoping you guys had fixed it but the first time you went past us Sunday and it sprayed on our windshield I had a feeling you guys were doomed. Hope you have better luck at Barber.