Racing is hard m'kay...
12-04-2001, 06:55 PM
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Racing is hard m'kay...
<center><img src="http://www.peterfowler.com/tw15.JPG"></center><p>some photos from the weekend. Several members of the forum are holding various parts of equipment in some photos but I can't tell everyone apart in the rain gear.
And before anyone asks, Roger Foo did this NOT me or Mike hehehehe. I believe the missing light was shoved firmly into some Camaros ***.<ul><li><a href="http://www.peterfowler.com/end01.htm">Race photos.</a></li></ul>
And before anyone asks, Roger Foo did this NOT me or Mike hehehehe. I believe the missing light was shoved firmly into some Camaros ***.<ul><li><a href="http://www.peterfowler.com/end01.htm">Race photos.</a></li></ul>
12-04-2001, 07:54 PM
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it's USUALLY not as hard as that...
there is enough to contend with without driving wind and rain...I swear it never got over 45 degrees and after one stint I had to go back to the hotel and take a warm shower and change my nomex underwear and put my suit on the heater in the room because I was absolutely SOAKED through. The wind was so strong that any time the left side of the car was facing south...even at 100mph...the rain would come in horizontally and soak the driver and we had standing water sloshing around on the floor.
Roger went off and did that little ding but they threw a yellow and it took him 3 laps to get out of the mud, then he pitted because in the mean time the inside of the windshield had become completely soaked and we had to check the car BUT NASA doesn't allow ANY work under yellow and we were stranded in the pits for TEN FRIGGING LAPS before we realized we could roll the car into the paddock to work on it (alternator belt slipping) and then we got out 14 or so laps down and got a TEN MINUTE penalty (where I had to pull in and sit there getting soaked) for fueling in the paddock.
Well with that deficite, even being the fastest car in our class was nowhere near enough to make up that sort of time and we actually lost some more laps with problems later in the race.
Was a LONG day.
Roger went off and did that little ding but they threw a yellow and it took him 3 laps to get out of the mud, then he pitted because in the mean time the inside of the windshield had become completely soaked and we had to check the car BUT NASA doesn't allow ANY work under yellow and we were stranded in the pits for TEN FRIGGING LAPS before we realized we could roll the car into the paddock to work on it (alternator belt slipping) and then we got out 14 or so laps down and got a TEN MINUTE penalty (where I had to pull in and sit there getting soaked) for fueling in the paddock.
Well with that deficite, even being the fastest car in our class was nowhere near enough to make up that sort of time and we actually lost some more laps with problems later in the race.
Was a LONG day.
12-04-2001, 09:49 PM
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yea, turns out dad was snapping some and put them on his site...
but I believe he came out of the motorhome exactly twice as evidenced as the scant documentary presentation of 12 hours hehehehe.
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12-04-2001, 10:04 PM
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yea, and they were hogging the motorhome!
kept walking in and between Mike, Val, Roger, Mom, Dad, Me, Shawn, Mike 2, Dane (Mike 1's little boy) and the suits/equipment of all of the above...that Motorhome was about 2 sizes too small!
