Well weekend is run and done . Im back at work . So lets start with a early run down . Have not even had time to run through timeslips yet .
Track was great , smoothest I have run on . After Sydney pits are a littlle smaller but flat and everything close so no long uphill walks .
Weather was pretty consistant all weekend running 1000-1450DA during day down to about 750 at night .
18 cars final qualified in my class . I ended up #2 after a bit of back and forth with eventual #1 , even went as far as running my Gy radials for a 1/2 tenth gain over the PBRs . Other car was noticably quicker so they just turned it up a bit more . Friday was 3 quals , tried tbrake but didnt work out as out of practice , so footbrake it was . Has a stumble off line in Q3 was a little weird . Saturday was 2 quals then 1 round eliminations at night . Eliminations through a curveball for everyone . DA/weather was good but not great . BUT 9 out of 10 racers were breaking out by a lot . I took a double breakout win , broke out by 4 on the brake other car a Porsche GT3 broke out by 7 !
Sunday , well that was different when they released new schedule . E2 run @ 2.55pm , then 1/4 @ 3.17pm , semi @ 3.45pm .
E2 took the win , other lane redlit but couldnt see it on tree and no win lights displayed on towers or end of track , so ran pass on brake as didnt know i'd won .
Woohoo bye in the 1/4 . Bugger car running warm on super fast turnaround , what its idle is off and seems little hard start . Roll under tower temp is 200F into burnout box , its missing in burnout , tacho flicking and missing downtrack for a 10.44 .
Krap ! Crawl throuh pits and thrash to find spare old analoge msd box and swap it , damn where'd the tach wire go ? Double damn they are calling us to hurry to the lanes . Well car is running better and its cooled to 175/80 . Into lanes car ok NO tacho or shift light ! What the hell am will I dial ? Will it do a full pull ? how close can I get shift ? DA hasnt moved .
OK put a 10.44 on window , if I probably short shift it will be a little slower . Cross my fingers .
No misfire in burnout . Roll into beams . And off, light seemed ok car feels good . Just clip rev limiter on 2-3 shift . Pulling up to other car , 11.26? dial , come round and drop it on the line to take stripe it feels like . Ok 1/2 mile return to see who won .
Darn it double breakout , I went .42 on 44 too much . Hells bells Andrew crushed me on the tree with a 0.003 or 0.007 , I was 0.078 . Done for the event .
On the plus side .
Went to semis so 60 points . I think I will finish #5 in western conference . I will maintain #1 in eastern conference though my lead is down . Car is running and have now sorted tach wiring . Darn those MSD boxes have gone up in price !
Have a double header eastern conference start of May at Sydney Dragway so nice to be local . However competition will be a lot tougher here plus more racers and I will need to step up my game even more .
will enter a track championship round in 2 weeks for practice . Will also loosen front end to see if i can improve reaction times .
Tex
