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Time for some updates! I completely dropped the ball on the updates from the Bowling Green Event at the National Corvette Museum. It wasn't a good weekend so maybe that's why. I decided to haul the car all the way to Bowling Green (14 hours) to get in a second event this year. I should have known that when I had a flat trailer tire before I even got out of town it was going to be a rough weekend. The speed stop was up first, It was setup on the road course with a blind downhill entry into the stop box. Pretty tricky. My car is setup for the road course more than the autox/speedstop events so It was good for me that it was on the Road Course. well, not so much. On my 4th Run I was right on point and stopped in the box, then Pop! a rear SS brake line burst! This caused me to ever so slowly roll into the exit cone and push it out of the way! DQ! Sucks, would have been a podium stop and of course I couldn't continue. Luckily I brought a spare because that's only one of a very few parts I can't buy at the local parts store. Fixed it over lunch. Now time for the AutoX
On my first run the marshal for NCM came to me and said my car was too loud and exceeded the noise limits for NCM (I prefer to say I broke the sound barrier!) Oh, but we have baffles you can buy in the pro shop he said. So for the next two and a half hours I ripped the exhaust off, inserted the baffles and went back out for a few more runs. Didn't do very well with only a couple of runs to work with.
Next up was the cruise. We did an Advance Auto Parts drive through then ran around in circles in the middle of nowhere. Made it though, but my Wide band said I was running way beyond lean. Determined it was the baffles too close to the O2, so sunday morning they came out hoping that on the track the car wouldn't be as loud.
Sunday, Road Course Day! the part where I'm the best! Well this time, not so much. The car just didn't feel right and wasn't planted like it usually is. I tried to figure it out but I didn't have much time during the day to inspect it like I wanted. It turned out to be a broken sway bar end link, didn't find it until I loaded up on the trailer. Optima asked me if I could instruct some of the Novices since I'm a certified instructor with NASA. So I was in and out of cars all day, I never had a chance to take my driving suit off in 100 deg heat! I did get awarded the prestigious cookie award! I was beat!
In Summery, It was a bad weekend. The only highlight of the weekend was that my car beat Mark Stielow's JackAss in the Design and Engineering points! But it was my worst D&E score ever, Not that it's my strong event. There were some very impressive cars there and I guess I should be happy limping away with an 11th place finish in GTV. That's just how racing goes...









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