This was my second Lemons. I'm the rookie driver on an established team, and my co drivers make it look easy...like when you see the figure skaters at the Olympics rip a triple axel and think you want to do that but you can only skate like a hockey player.
I thought things quite aggro, but in my limited experience I've no yardstick...are they ALL this way ? It seemed a lot rougher than Thompson. All my other high performance driving experiences has been one car at at time or very carefully structured, notably Rallying, where you aren't wheel to wheel whilst at the edge of engine and traction, or alone on a track where you can obsess about "the line".
--- the opposite problem of one poster...the rest of the team is very fast so other drivers just assume I'm them and act accordingly...yeesh, I need a Rookie Stripe
There are definitely some gentlemen on the track and a few less-so.....
----missed two major pileups ahead of me on Saturday, and avoided a spin in turn 2 when a car dumped ATF. Luck didn't hold Sunday when I contacted another car in turn 3 (that tire wall on the straight) and snapped a tie rod-hit it just right-POP, the aluminum part of the arm broke, car was otherwise still driveable but with one loose wheel the day was over, and we were doing well too-we'd no flags all weekend, great position on the big board, and the car was running great. The hit wasn't even especially hard, but just right/wrong to kill the car for the day.
Coming back on a flatbed is a walk of shame I'd prefer not to repeat....ever.
I had been rotating 45 degrees at the right side of the tire wall and taking an inside line mostly to avoid the mosh on the outside of the corner...the other driver took a wider but tighter line and I hadn't completed the rotation. Video shows I was looking to the right, not left-should have seen him. (winter project-better mirrors) The guy I contacted kept going, fortunately and finished.
I'm sorry to anyone caught up in that-including the driver who came by our garage saying we took him out of the race and said a few uncomplimentary/unlemony things, but he wasn't the guy I contacted-he did keep going immediately after and did finish.
Earlier, our car had been hit in the same corner, almost in the same way when another team member was driving. A car spun, hit another car, which then contacted our car....we were able to keep going that time though, although there was a nice rip in the right front quarter.
Our next race is NJMP, and I'm going to make sure I do a high performance school before the Lemons race so I don't have to learn the track in traffic....