icemang17 wrote:sergio wrote:icemang17 wrote:okay if I am reading it correctly...the dark red was the winner...& it looks like they did 1 pit stop per day?????????
No. We did a fuel stop driver change at noon Sat, then a pad change/fuel top off stop around 2:30, and finally other fuel driver stop about 4:30.
Sunday it was just one fuel stop around 12:30. There were a buttload of caution laps Sunday morning with the rain. Got real good MPG's.
1 driver drove ALL DAY on Sunday...talk about lucky!!! and TIRED...damm
2.5+ hour stints is quite good too for such a heavy high HP car....we are hoping to get similar stints in the Estate if we can manage to be gentle to the go pedal...
The plan was for me to drive first Sunday. Next was Martin and Jay would finish. Then about an hour in, the rain came. RWD cars were spinning out everywhere. The Saab 900 and another car wrecked on the back straight. Niether could be towed, they had to flat bed them, with only one truck. So that took a while to get both of them gone. Then a Mazda blew up in the same place pucking oil on the track. They towed him back thru the grass along side the track. Then the 2 Mustangs wrecked, one on it's roof. That took forever to clear up. Plus to right it, the tow truck had to use the pit road exit. So it was closed and all the ones in the pit had to wait while we did laps under full course caution. That was lucky for us. I had half a tank of gas, no need for fuel. I'm coasting and using 5th gear during the cautions. Plus we figured the Neon didn't hold too much gas and they would need to come in before us.
After driving some more but not really racing, trying to save gas, the engine sputters for fuel in a turn. Time to pit. My teammates in the pit did not want to drive on a wet track especially being in the lead. I get out to help fuel and check the front pads, they tell me they don't want to drive. OK. I stay out to the finish. More rain, the Neon was on the same lap with an hour to go but couldn't catch us. They needed gas with 30 minutes left. Then it was basically drive safe to the end. I think we had a 2 lap lead.
One of my teammates asked when I got out of the car, don't you have to pee? Not really, weird. I was expecting to be sore on Monday but nothing. With all the cautions and driving in the wet you're not pulling the G's you do on a dry track. Now it's more stressfull to keep the car under control, but that's more mental than physical.
The trip odometer read 797 miles at the end. Used 4 quarts of oil during the race plus another one to get home. It's the 3rd race for the car. 5th race for me. 4th for my teammates. It's taken us this long to work out all the details. Get the right radios, fuel jugs that empty fast, strategy, prepare the car etc etc.