With no test session friday night the InfernoMotorsports
team took the car into the garage early saturday a.m.
Joe and I reset and measured the entire cars suspension
front and rear, checked every angle and changed
most of the front suspension angles.
We showed up at the track ready to see how the
changes would make the car handle.
After the 1st practice Joe was still getting too much
wheel speed off the corners, making the car loose
on exit.
We made changes and send him out for session #
2, after practice he felt the car was better but, He
was still not happy with the forward drive of the car,
we were still spinning the tires off the corner.
With practice over and qualifing getting set we
adjusted the rear axle, moving the rt rear back
to help the car thru the corner, well, as it turned
out we never got a chance to see of it helped until
the main event, and heres why!!!
During our qualifing group one of the cars
was leaking oil on the track for the entire session
and the officals did not see it, we complained and
they cleaned the track, they allowed us to go back
out and qualify with the next group, but, they did
such a horrible job cleaning the track eveyone in
this group was still sliding around.
We ended up qualifing 12th out of 19, horrible!
Main event had us staring 12th in the field of 18
cars now , since the car that leaked oil went home
with a blown engine.
On the green flag joe fell into the 10th spot after
lap one, Joe stayed there for the 1st half of the 30
lap race, with a couple of cautions and 2 cars in
front of us wrecking we moved to 8th until lap
25 when Joe passed for 7th and pulled away
closing in on 6th but not enough laps left to get
by we finshed 7th overall and 3rd in class.
no racing next week .... stay tuned