SUMMIT RACES 1 AND 2

The Flying Pig bunch loaded up and headed to the Patch for a little warm up session by way of the Summit Series.  We won't run the full Summit schedule but instead figured this would be a good way to get a little seat time and knock some rust off before the ANRA season opener.

So Me, Barry (not Dan) and the Nuke headed over Friday morning and met Woollybear and Frankster there, Friday was an open test n tune day so we figured we'd get in a few passes to get re-acquainted with the car and procedure, and it's a good thing we did. We went up around 2 O'clock to make our first pass.  Staged the car, hit the transbrake button and when I brought up the RPMs the car jumped the lights and, well, that was that.  I idled 'er off the track and went to the pits to start the troubleshoot.

After the Nuke spent some time under the car trying to fish his way under the transmission blanket to trace the connections to the transbrake solenoid, we commenced to test continuity from the button to the box and low and behold the button just wasn't working.  As luck would have it or by some divine intervention, about 2 weeks ago I stumbled upon a transbrake button in my garage tool box and I says to myself "self, that won't do any good here. It should be in the race car bin in the motorhome". So I took and tossed it into the motorhome basement. With a snip here and a twist there we had the new button mounted on the steering wheel and at about 4 O'clock I went out and made the first pass of the season.

Time Run 1 ☝

Round 1 win 👇

Round one on Saturday was a good little race with Jack Swanson last year's Summit Pro champ.  ☝

And then in round 2 I lost one of the closest and most fun races ever.  I had a 6 thousandths advantage at the starting line but that didn't matter anyway because it was a double breakout affair, with me breaking out more than the big hitter Vic Hudson.  Margin of victory was 23 ten thousandths of a second!  When I talked to Vic later he said the same thing I said- one of the closest and most fun races ever! It was one of those things where I didn't feel so bad about losing because it was such a cool race.  Unfortunately you never see his car in this video, but trust me he was right next to me!  👇

So, we got to do it all over again on Sunday!  Here is the video. I had a couple good rounds and then lost round 3 with a red light. DOH!

Round 1 win

Round 2 win

Round 3 loss

Other than that it was the usual fun time at Famoso Dragstrip!

Oh and then there was the generator lost another fuel pump! Luckily I had a spare. Who makes these things? You don't have to answer that! This one lasted less than a year.

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