13 years later….

 Lacey III is getting ready for her debut!

Team all present, at dinner....

We came...we mounted and demouted tires...we're through tech and at team meal. Looking forward to tomorrow...

18th!

We're done, apparently my last post courted one final mechanical demon as we ran out of gas with 10 mins to go....a great team gave us 5 gals of fuel because Kebin was at the other end of the pits (we didn't know what was wrong at first, he should have had fuel). So, 18th it is! I'm extremely proud of our ten that was here AND our ten members that couldn't make the trip! Stay tuned for more updates in the future!

One hour to go...

We are now in 16th, and barring mechanical catastrophe of ours or the competition, that's probably where we'll finish. A few more problems struck...yet another pair of broken wheels (at the hub, this is getting old...I don't want to run this car any more with stock wheels, it seems they always break on MY shift...hmmmmm.....), a broken wheel stud in the replacement right rear (fixed that one on pit road in style, but I had to run at reduced speed until the team was ready to fix it (again, why does this sort of thing always happen while I'm driving...I don't even drive on the rumble strips!). Robert, Stephen, Dennis, Kevin and myself are all having a great time anyway!

Life is giving us lemons at the moment...

After a short time back out, we ran into another snag when the steering rack decided it didn't want to turn right anymore. Unfortunately, we're on the road course right now, where turning right is not a luxury.... Replaced rack and Robert is back out...turning very quick laps. We think we're in 18th now but live timing was out when I started this post....

Kevin has now discovered what happens to a TR6 when a half-shaft breaks in the middle of a hard left-hand corner. Answer: pretty much everything on the right rear of the car is junk. Thanks to Jack, we came fully equipped with the spares to do the job. After replacing the halfshaft, hub, brakes, wheel, and trailing arm, then bleeding the brakes, we're back out there but have fallen to 15th. More to come....

9th...but....

Two cars in front of us got together on the oval...both need major repairs. Not the way we'd like to move up. One of the cars has been pitted next to us and is a nice group...we hope they can get back in. They were running third in a V6 mustang much like Grim Reaper's.