InfernoMotorsports traveled to Irwindale Speedway over the
Thanksgiving weekend with both cars in tow.
Joe, Tom ,Scott and I arrived Friday for practice that took place
from 6pm to 10pm.
Joe took to the track and the car was too tight to turn in the
corners ( the car would not turn as sharp as we wanted) so,
Joe came in for adjustments and we sent the car back out
with the car a little bettter, Joe came back in we
Parked the car we looked the car over real well and made more
changes, sent Joe back out and Joe said the car was a thousand
times better than before.
Joe still said the car is tight in the very center of the corner
but better everywhere else,
We tried and tried everthing we knew to correct this condition
to no avail.
Saturday a.m: After sleeping on the problem we tried
another change on the rear end housing angle, Joe said the
car was perfect for about 3 laps then it would go tight again,
at this point it was time to qualify the car so we had
what we had.
Joe qualified 17th out of 20 and all the cars
were impounded after qulalifing, so, we could not adjust or
work on the car anylonger.
The car had to be raced the way it was.
The race started and Joe passed cars up to 12th place, the
race had lots of cautions, Then Joe got caught up in someone
elses wreck around lap 37 of the 100 lap event.
Joe had to pit to remove the hood, the air cleaner, tape up the
car to keep the parts from flying off, Joe came back on the
track 7 laps down, We made 2 of the laps when more cautions
fell for more crashes.
With 30 laps to go I told Joe to hang in there the rest of the
remaining cars were getting really wild and sure enough they
started to crash each other, car after car had engines blow up,
ran out of fuel, or crashed , by the time we had10 laps left there
were only 8 cars left running out of the 20, With 5 to go
more cars had engine trouble or ran out of gas, with 2 to go
the leaders took each other out , that left 3 cars running at the end,
3rd place, 4th place and Joe in 5th place, needless to say
our race turned into a endurance race. We finished 5th.
5 laps down. Still had fun!!!
Joe and I have work to get done body parts to replace, overall I hope
Joe had as much fun as I had watching and playing with our car.
BIG THANKS, to Tom ,and Scott for their help all weekend.
Special Thanks to Dennis and Curta for the car.
stay tuned for January race news ......
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