Frustrations in preps to “Exposing me
pistons”.
I wrecked pretty badly at the Icebreaker event. Bent the
front horns, all 4 tie rods, center link, spindle etc. My biggest challenge was
very little time to work on the car due to 75 hour per week work schedule. Also
adding to the challenge was car chief Jonny was not able to help until the night
before the race due to his commitments elsewhere.
I finished re-attaching the body at about 11am Thursday, then
began setting the car up after having changed most of the front end parts. I
missed all practice sessions too.
Our division did group time trials, and I had to ramp up
speed carefully to give new brakes a chance to break in. Was able to set third
fastest time. A redraw of fastest cars placed me on the pole, my first lucky
break in a while.
The race…Corey Hutchings and I were putting on a pretty good
show side by side for the first 6 laps, he finally tried a bit too hard and
bumped me from the groove, that gave Moose the chance to knock me into the
marbles and I fell all the way back to 5th place on lap 7. I got my rhythm back in a few laps and began making my way back towards the front.
Finishing 2nd.
Then the bonus news in tech. Pull a cylinder head. Oh
goodie. Jonny, Amy and I pulled our Nats racing
engine apart. All good, but made for a pillow time after midnight. 4am wake up
for work felt like I had only used the snooze button.
We hope to be even better prepared for the next race on
May29th. Maybe even some paint on the car.
Things are finally getting closer to
normal.
Cheers,
Larry
