Monday, April 6, 2009

Race #2 completed!

The InfernoMotorsports team did not have the best
race weekend, Joe and the guys at Phils PHabrication
shop finally installed the new shocks and we felt ready
to race hard.
Joe took the car out for the 1st practice session and
came back and said the car was great entering the
corner and a little tight in the center of the corner causing
a loose condition off the corner.
We made a wedge adjustment and had to wait for the
next practice session when Joe noticed fluid under the car.
I took the right front wheel off the car only to discover
the the brake caliper was leaking, we looked for a
replacement part in our trailer only to come up empty.
Joe went to the track supplier and purchased another
caliper, we pulled the old one, installed the new one,
but missed the 2nd practice session.
We did not know if the change we made was enough
now that we did not get to practice.
Next was qualifing, with no practice we just had to go
with what we had.
Joe was the 4th group out for qualifing only to have the
car directly in front of us start leaking oil during our run,
Joe was sideways and loose all the way around the track.
We still did not know if the change was enough since we
were in the oil... oh well we will have to live with a 13 th
starting spot.
Main event time finally rolled around and were looking
forward to a long green flag run when the car to our rear
decided he wanted our spot worse than we did, so, he
punted us like a football out of the way caused us to spin
and if that was not bad enough he came along and hit the
front of our car too while passing by, needless to say that
front end damage caused the entire front body to get
pushed over and rubbed the body on the tire.
Jim O`Hanley from O`Hanleys 9 inch rear ends tried to
get the body off the tire with out success , we called it a
night and took the car back to the trailer, it took a cutting
torch to get the inner structure straight enough to get
the car home.
The car will be repaired at Phils PHabrication and will be
better than new for the next race in 2 weeks.
Just one of those nights!!
stay tuned ........