Monday, March 12, 2012

Pot O Gold Rush

First race of the season for me after an off season full of plans to improve the car... none of which fulfilled due to work on the house.
Opened up the weekend on the scales showing:
2,712 pounds total with half a tank of fuel:
DF  814    PF 710
DR 608    PR 581
For Saturday, I had a good qualifying session and ended up in thirds with a 1:45.9 (even though my racepak shows it as a 1:45.09... have to figure that out). Not bad, but a second and a half behind Eric and Johan.
My strategy for the race was to get in line and get away from the chaos. Overall I was successful, while not having anything for Eric, Johan dropped out and I was able to finish in second place. The excitement with this race was through traffic out of class. I had to stay pretty aggressive to stay ahead of the rest of the e30 pack.
Saturday's Video:

On Sunday, qualifying was a cluster. I got one hot lap before traffic got in the way, and took what I could. Surprisingly, I ended up third again behind Johan and Eric. In the race, I had a bad start (understatement) HORRIBLE start falling to 8th. Finishing 6th, today's race was a knife fight where practically every move opened you up to lose position. I had a great battle with Damion swapping positions at least a dozen times behind Chuck. Some of the most fun I've had in the car... Good clean racing! Unfortunately my video camera tilted to the roof. Here is what I ended up with.
Sunday's video:

Good view of my race from Michael Harness' car:

Location:Road Atlanta






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