Thursday, June 14, 2007
Grattan - Memorial Day 2007 - Race 1 & 2
This will be a short post because there is not much good to say about how this weekend went. A short summary is below.
Qualifying 1 - Carb float problem caused the car to bog down coming out of most corners. This qualified me in the middle of the overall pack but behind most of the Formula Firsts.
Race 1 - The brake pedal got progressively longer as the race went on. We discovered leaking master cylinder after the race. I finished 8th of the 11 Formula Firsts in the race.
Qualifying 2 - This was a qualifying race (rather than an open qualifying session). That would have been a lot of fun had all four spark plug wires stayed attached. Unfortunately, only three of them stayed attached and I was the last car running on the track. This stuck me near the back of Sunday's field.
Race 2 - I was looking forward to charging up through the field to join my fellow FST drivers near the front. Unfortunately, the set screws in the front of the car had other ideas. After I spent almost three laps trying to figure out why the handling was so all over the place, the set screws finally worked themselves out of the grooves they sit in and the car pitched left coming up the hill towards the esses. I kept it straight and pulled into the pits, but we could not repair it in time and my race was over after four laps.
This weekend is Road America. I finished 2nd here last year and hopefully all of our bad luck is out of the way for the year.
Qualifying 1 - Carb float problem caused the car to bog down coming out of most corners. This qualified me in the middle of the overall pack but behind most of the Formula Firsts.
Race 1 - The brake pedal got progressively longer as the race went on. We discovered leaking master cylinder after the race. I finished 8th of the 11 Formula Firsts in the race.
Qualifying 2 - This was a qualifying race (rather than an open qualifying session). That would have been a lot of fun had all four spark plug wires stayed attached. Unfortunately, only three of them stayed attached and I was the last car running on the track. This stuck me near the back of Sunday's field.
Race 2 - I was looking forward to charging up through the field to join my fellow FST drivers near the front. Unfortunately, the set screws in the front of the car had other ideas. After I spent almost three laps trying to figure out why the handling was so all over the place, the set screws finally worked themselves out of the grooves they sit in and the car pitched left coming up the hill towards the esses. I kept it straight and pulled into the pits, but we could not repair it in time and my race was over after four laps.
This weekend is Road America. I finished 2nd here last year and hopefully all of our bad luck is out of the way for the year.
