<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">Hello Friends,</div><div aria-label="Compose body">Well, I finally got down to editing some race videos and I'd like to share them with you.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Last weekend, CSRG held their 14th Annual Charity Challenge. I ran a couple practice sessions on Friday and along with warm-up races, qualifying and the feature race of Saturday and Sunday, I signed up once again to give lunch time charity rides both days too.</div><div aria-label="Compose body">I ran the hell out of the car. </div><div aria-label="Compose body"> </div><div aria-label="Compose body">I had a great qualifying race with a '58 Speedster and others on Saturday. My group raced at 4:45. This late afternoon schedule comes with the added difficulty of the glaring sun on the uphill approach to turn two and 3A. I still have the black electrical tape on my face shield from my first ever race in 2013. </div><div aria-label="Compose body">Once I finally got by the Speedster, I began to catch up to the next group of cars. Man, if there had been a couple more laps. I qualified 13th of 45. </div><div aria-label="Compose body">The Speedster driver has owned the car for 40 years and raced it for the first 30 before taking the next 8 years off. He was exciting to watch from my perspective. The video show his excellent driving skills. We had a nice meeting after the race.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Sunday's race was held in extremely difficult conditions. In the previous formula car race, a Formula Atlantic completely oiled the track for two laps. My race was delayed for over 30 minutes as they tried to clean up the track. I could see the back half of the course from the grid and the tractor sweeper left a big thick line of oil-dry down. I thought he should make another pass, but no. I considered not racing. Then, about 8 to 10 car behind me pulled off the grid. They had us do two warm-up laps to test the track condition and dissipate the oil-dry. A few more cars exited the track.</div><div aria-label="Compose body">What a mess! I wished I had taken the time on the grid to put air filters on the car. </div><div aria-label="Compose body">The whole race was like driving in a sand storm. I had to reach up twice on the main straight to wipe the windscreen with my gloved hand. I couldn't see anything through it with the glaring sun. Horrible...but intense and exciting too. It'll take all winter to get the car clean.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">I had my best finish of 7th in this my 11th race.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Please enjoy the videos.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Dave H</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Qualifying race: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekSnEHdVIw4&t=165s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekSnEHdVIw4&t=165s</a></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFb11g3IHLI&t=209s</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div></div></body></html>