The last few hours of the race were really "interesting" - on-line timing
and scoring (which most of us were able to follow on our stupid smart
phones throughout most of the race) went dark in the last hour of the race, but
we THINK we finished 19th
remarkable, considering that Sunday morning we
- tore the center out of the left front wheel (Jamie driving)
- completely wore out the front brake pads and blew a piston out of a
caliper - replaced both brake calipers in our lengthiest pit stop of the race
(me driving)
- had a right rear tire go suddenly flat when somebody got close enough on
track to shear off the valve stem (Wayne Andrews driving)
- oh yeah - we lost the starter before the sun came up on Sunday, but this
was a barely a minor inconvenience since the car can be push started in
about 3 feet in first gear and I don't believe anybody went off track bad
enough to stall the car throughout the whole 24 hours...okay, 27 hours, if you
count the track reconfiguration breaks and the lightening delay
So - at the end of the event we drove a mostly unscathed, still good
running car back on the trailer and all went home smiling with a top 20
finish.
Cheers,
Jack Mc
In a message dated 7/31/2011 11:55:55 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
tedtsimx@bright.net writes:
What is current status? It,s been 3 hours since we heard anything. Great
job so. Keep it going. Ted
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-----Original message-----
From: Jack Mc <LimeyV8@aol.com>
To: Jack Mc <LimeyV8@aol.com>
Cc: "fot@autox.team.net" <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sun, Jul 31, 2011 09:21:00 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [Fot] RiffRAF Racing 24 hrs of VIR update
17th @ 5:20 am
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 30, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Jack Mc <limeyv8@aol.com> wrote:
> Lightening delay - no power at corner stations - will eventually restart
in
19th place on a very wet course
>
> Jack Mc
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 30, 2011, at 5:08 PM, LimeyV8@aol.com wrote:
>
>> 21st place (84 cars started) 7 hours in
>>
>> we shall keep calm and carry on
>>
>> Jack Mc
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