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| Bob and Jonny listen to the engine, with Big John standing security. |
LB's Recap of the Day:
Sunday July 29th the MRS series raced at Thompson
Speedway. 34 cars attended, heat races were cancelled due to a short rain
shower delay.
We attempted to run practice session with our used tires from
the monadnock race a few weeks ago. They had about 60 laps on them, but I had
lots of rubber build up on them, and possibly flat spotted them on the lap 48
accident that race. The car had such a bad shake in the front end, I thought
the tires were bad. We changed to a different set of used tires, shake
remained. I hoped those tires were also bad in some way.
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| Jonny and Bob talk carburetors |
We mounted the new set of tires, and were ready to run the
heat race, when the shower passed through. Heat races cancelled. I started the
race in 16th position, and finally narrowed it down to two possible problems. The shake was either caused
by a sticking front left brake caliper and warped rotor, or an issue with the power steering servo. The condition made
front brakes slow to react on corner entry, and then steering wheel shaked
violently through the corner until the pads were pushed away far enough from the
rotor. A single problem on the car, caused me to lift off the throttle early,
and then fight a shaking steering wheel all the way through the
corner. Luckily the car balance was very close, we were able to pit
for an adjustment that helped me in dealing with the brake issue some (a stagger
change and some wedge).
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| Amy and dad John converse under threat of darkening skies. |
The crew did a great job ( Jon, Amy, Bob, Big John, Marty,
Kim, Jen, Victoria, Linda) helping me get the 16th place finish in
spite of the car issue. We also were without our Troyer expert Rob Clorite, and
crew members Alan and Jimmy.
We will not be attending open wheel event at Seekonk(with our
car), but should have car ready for each of the August vMRS races. We are
always looking a for a bit more help on the crew, as current crew members cannot
all attend each race.
I will also be helping as spotter at several events coming
up, including Whelen Mod events with Bobby Santos at Stafford and
Thompson.
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| The Barnett crew with their homemade carts, etc, amidst other more financially flush teams. Gotta love this picture. |
vMRS Owner's Points
vMRS Driver's Points
Howie Hodge's Chrome Horn Photos:
Amy, Jen, and Victoria
LB, Barrett, and Jordan
LB and Hinckley
LB and Pasteryak
LB, the 56 and Barrett
LB and the 55
GREAT shot of LB getting into the rear of another during the turn 4/frontstretch incident
Starting to make his way through the incident
Squeezing through...
Uh, this is starting to look bad....
Looks like if LB had been a little bit slower this could have been a whole lot worse...
And there he goes...
