| Hey, I just got some photos uploaded to the 2008 Photos page. We got some good shots while she still looks sharp. |
April 20, 2008 - Wow, Can-am is one nice track! I think they call it 4/10 of a mile, no friggin way -- it is wide with long sweeping turns and a fast track to race on. Papa G jammed all week to get her ready, he did an awesome job, the car was great. We unloaded way too loose. They just lost me in the heat race, I couldn't stuff the car in the corner without the rear end coming around on me. I was losing all the momentum going in and with such long turns I couldn't get off of corner fast either. As soon as we got back to the pits we tightened her up a ton, coupla rounds into and out of the right and left and got ready for the feature....
Started 17th, came down for the green and she stuck pretty good into 1. It was a lot better than the heat race for sure! I was being a little easy on it because the track, while nice and big etc, was like a plowed field, I'd call it the roughest track I've ever been on. Being so fast, if you hit one of those mounds it would launch the car and change attitude before you came down making a coupla scary turns coming out of 4. I was hanging it comin' off, slide a little to the outside, wham, over the bank of a rut and come down pointing at the wall. It only happened a few times, but was pretty wild when it did. A few laps in I got a great run on the 05 car underneath coming off of 4, went right after the 49 car pm the same straight when the guys up front started getting all crazy, so the 49 car came down into my right front -- it was a medium shot, not crazy hard but hard enough for a jolt and blammo, I lose all brake pressure. Nada. At first I thought my foot must have slipped off and I was on the clutch. So I pumped it a couple more times while I was looking at the pressure gauges (and full throttle on the straight away), 0 psi...We were only 13 laps into the race so I decided I'd just lift a little early going in the corner and finish with what we had. But I kept pumping the brake pedal hoping for some kind of miracle fix. It came. 2 laps of pumping like crazy with my left foot while mashing the gas with my right and they came back. Oh, I could hear some kinda bad noise coming from that corner, but the pressure gauge is giving me at least 400 psi and they were back. So I had to get back to work on those 4 guys that got by when I didn't have any brakes. We raced them hard and ended up bring her home 13th. Yeah, I'd sure like to have finished better, always will unless it's Victory Lane, but all in all Papa G and I had a great time!!! It was quite a haul, but worth every mile. Fun track, great weather, solid race and a lot of fun. It was a nice way to kick off the season.
Papa G got some pics, I'll work on getting them updated....we'll let you know how the schedule works out for us. Thanks for stopping by!!!
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| Nice...Matt Alix at SignWorks did another awesome job with the car. Papa G provided the guiding designs and Matt perfected it. It looks sharp. Too bad it never looks this good at the end of the season, take a look, I think you'll like it! |
Welcome to 2008!!!
Papa G has been pretty busy out at the shop. We got it insulated with a heater this year so it hasn't been as punishing to work there this winter. No more heavy Carharts and frozen fingers! We've got her all cleaned up, the new body is mounted nice and things are coming along. Papa G took some shots of the car, I got them posted here.
Right now we're mulling the schedule and seeing what our plans are for the year. We're looking forward to having some fun and finding Victory Lane....
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