Arse-Freeze-Aplalooza 2016
Well we finished another Lemons race. The weather was perfect. We put in two solid days of racing. We stayed around the mid 50th place range almost all weekend and we finished in 50th overall out of 187 entries. There was another team there with a CB7. There's was a 1990 DX and it was bone stock. They were actually ahead of us by 4 laps on Sunday morning which shocked me since I had personally passed them several times and we had not had any long stops for repairs. But they broke some wheel studs and that took them a while to get back on the track and we left them way behind.
Our car has gotten much faster with the work we've done. I was passing cars that used to regularly pass me. I'm getting more comfortable too. I am more confidant about passing. We are still far from the fastest. In fact our best lap of 2:14.00x (my fastest was 2:14.667 and Dennis' was 2:14.4x) was near the bottom of the list of best laps. About 120 teams had better fastest laps. But we were reliable and consistent. Mid sunday we switched from our wearing out BFG Rivals (which I was arguing for since my saturday drive) and the car got much more stable. We had lots of trouble with brake modulation recently. We had a new pad compound this time but still had the problem. So we disconnected the vacuum assist on the brakes. That made braking MUCH harder but the control was radically better. My right leg is sore today.
The CB7 is a great car for crapcan racing. It is so reliable. Ours has about 230,000 miles, the last 6,000+ are hard racing miles. That's like Anchorage to Key West by way of Los Angeles.
I did spin in turn 5 and got tagged in the right rear. Nothing structural and we obviously finished the race.
Well we finished another Lemons race. The weather was perfect. We put in two solid days of racing. We stayed around the mid 50th place range almost all weekend and we finished in 50th overall out of 187 entries. There was another team there with a CB7. There's was a 1990 DX and it was bone stock. They were actually ahead of us by 4 laps on Sunday morning which shocked me since I had personally passed them several times and we had not had any long stops for repairs. But they broke some wheel studs and that took them a while to get back on the track and we left them way behind.
Our car has gotten much faster with the work we've done. I was passing cars that used to regularly pass me. I'm getting more comfortable too. I am more confidant about passing. We are still far from the fastest. In fact our best lap of 2:14.00x (my fastest was 2:14.667 and Dennis' was 2:14.4x) was near the bottom of the list of best laps. About 120 teams had better fastest laps. But we were reliable and consistent. Mid sunday we switched from our wearing out BFG Rivals (which I was arguing for since my saturday drive) and the car got much more stable. We had lots of trouble with brake modulation recently. We had a new pad compound this time but still had the problem. So we disconnected the vacuum assist on the brakes. That made braking MUCH harder but the control was radically better. My right leg is sore today.
The CB7 is a great car for crapcan racing. It is so reliable. Ours has about 230,000 miles, the last 6,000+ are hard racing miles. That's like Anchorage to Key West by way of Los Angeles.
I did spin in turn 5 and got tagged in the right rear. Nothing structural and we obviously finished the race.
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