The weekends practice and race night started out poorly.
Friday night during the 1st practice session we completed
a 10 lap run only to hear a horrific noise comming from
the car, the noise turned out to be the starter flex plate
it was broken in 2 pieces.
Needless to say practice was over before it started.
I went to the speed shop saturday A.M. purchased
the replacement part, arrived back home and together
Joe and I installed the new part.
During the afternoon hot laps and practice the car
ran fine but, Joe was asking for the car to be tighter
off the corner the car wanted to spin out off the corner.
The heat race had 2 cars get together and debris
was on the track and somehow we picked up some
and had a slow leak so when the green flag came
back out Joe went into the 1st turn and the car
would not turn.... we are done for that race, back
to the pits we go with only a couple of laps run.
We replaced the tire and had to wait for the main
where we started Dead last... yep dead last!!
Main Event time:
With nothing behind us but air,we starting the main
waiting to see if how field would get thru turn 1
and the go racing, we passed 2 or 3 cars on the
first lap, then some cautions , the green again passing
more cars a few laps later and some more cautions,
finally some racing laps!!! when Joe complained about
the loose problem again, He said he could not get on the
gas pedal as soon as he wanted and it was not helping
the speed of the car getting into the next corner.
after getting up to 6th place the car was just too
loose to pass the top 5 cars so, thats where we finished
6th place for us on race night # 2, thats all we had.
......stay tuned