[NOBBC] LEMONS UPDATE
CLIF&DEB
hawkview at sonic.net
Mon Sep 17 22:54:56 MDT 2012
Oops, wasn't quit finished. Will add is I get more info and maybe a couple
of photos. I will add this now though... To a man, I think it was a lifetime
highlight.
Clif and Deborah. 74 JH
Sent from my iPod
On Sep 17, 2012, at 9:25 PM, CLIF&DEB <hawkview at sonic.net> wrote:
> Hi all.
> Well we had a great 24 Hours of Lemons race at Thunderhill Raceway over the
> weekend.
> There were 185 teams entered. We started the race in our non BBC car, a
1986
> V6 Mustang. We had blown our automatic at Buttonwillow and replaced it with
a
> 5 speed .
> Our drivers now consisted of Walter (some little yellow Austin thing),
David
> (hot rod JH), Michael (black TR4), Alan(a Porsche Turbo) guy and myself
> (fantastic red JH). And a support team of Deborah (the wife) as "PIT
BOSS",
> Mike for technical backup and Eric our newest and only true Crew member.
> There were actually 190 teams signed up but Fridays practice and other
events
> cut the starting field to 166. We started in 120th. After one hour we had
> moved up to 100th and then 87th and eventually our best position 42nd. By
the
> end of the the first day 47th because of a black flag, in this case because
of
> a trip off track onto the infield.
>
> And we hadn't broken anything.
> That night we did a full service and while a few of us were out to dinner,
> David added a couple of degrees of camber to the front end.
> Next morning off again but only for an hour when Alan came in with brake
> problems, a really bad vibration shaking the whole car. We concluded the
> rotors were overheating and warping them. If we took it easy, no hard
> braking, the problem would diminish but never go away.
> Next was Walter and we really couldn't do much to improve our position.
> We all pushed the car as hard as we could and the little V6 took all we
gave
> it.
> Oh, please don't get the idea that this isn't real racing. We were pushing
> 105 MPH, and some cars were doing 120 MPH.
> I was given the honor of finishing the race and it was fantastic despite
front
> end that felt like a pogo stick when braking. We actually measured the
> temperature at 650 degrees.
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