Looking forward to meeting some new faces and seeing some new SAAB street cars.
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Jordan wrote:Our car is still up on jackstands
DeLorean wrote:I just got home from the race late last night, We had couple tech issues.... Day one was great. I drove first. Very exciting with 115 cars on track initially, Frequent yellow flags & quite a few incidents. Very fun, stressful, and fun, fun and fun. Easily one of the most exciting and funnest things in motorsports I have done to date. When I finished the 1st 2 hour leg (and we needed a hot-fuel & driver change), we were running in 7th place overall (135? entries, 115 that actually started)
Adam Goral was observing our first hot fuel of the day and was of the opinion we were doing it all wrong. He was right, as on take off we had lost nearly 20 positions. We need a faster fueling system. Next Driver was Jason, and I'll let him give his impressions, but I think he had a blast too. After he was out of fuel, we changed to our 3rd driver Jon Lausch, and fueled again (after correcting a minor issue)- our exhaust falling off. After he was off, our somewhat slower fuel stops, and slightly slower average lap times (and eeuroparts team also having their own technical issue with their brake master cyl) we were running neck and neck, with the eeuroteam typically averaging about 2-4 seconds faster lap-times than we were, & they were catching up. At the end of day one eeuro was right on us, only 2 positions behind the PA saab maab car, as they also had lost some time due to some brake issues, I think we had an extra 5 minutes or so of track time so we were still ahead. At the end of day one we were both still easy contenders for top 20...
As Jordan said to us at the beginning of day 2 "It's all fun and games untill someone breaks the trans" - I figured, Meh... We have a trans cooler and our trans was rebuilt with the best of the best parts we had and it was working perfectly. It was raining Sunday morning, and that really made things interesting out there. I drove first again, and started gaining some positions as soon as I went out there. About an hour or so into Sunday, the "bang" happened. As I was charging up the hill getting by some traffic, full throttle in 3rd, 3rd gear exited the situation and the trans instantly started making loud rock tumbler noises.
That was that for us. I had a spare trans, however we figured that we would probably have the car back together just in time for the checkered flag to drop, so we figured it was not worth all the effort for a few minutes of racing.
I still can't wait for the next time, and I am still hopeful we can get a trans in this thing that can hold together, the car is proving itself to be quite reliable in every way at this point except for the dang transmission.
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