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Well first the good news. I went faster, the car is mostly in one piece, and I'm only sore. The bad news is that I had two personal goals that I failed to meet, was not really competitive, and I found out the car flies fairly well. Back straight, 145+, no brakes. At all. Zero scrub. The eyewitness accounts include dirt trailing off the tires as I left the track (just like in the movies!), at least 10 feet of 'air', and a long jump distance of 30-40 feet. The launch was HARD, first hit in the gravel was hard, then it just bounced across the top of the gravel, and finally dug in HARD with the right front - rotating the car and finally digging in less than 20 feet from the tire wall. I thought for a split second it might roll, but it didn't. All the safety equipment did it's job. Oh, and I missed t-boning the car in front of me by less than 10 feet...
Damage report:
Both front fenders bent
undertray gone
front lip gone
RF fender liner gone
front bumper ripped away from RF fender
rear bumper ripped away from LR fender
exhaust pulled out of the rear hanger
LF Hoosier cut down to the cords by the fender
And the cause of all the damage, LR brake line cut by the rear knuckle
BIG, BIG thanks to Steve for spending his weekend at the track helping me out, without his and Neal's help on friday I would have been home friday night. Thanks to Dieter-Heinz Kojira for letting me have his runner pick up new brake lines at Buschurs for me, Keith and Aaron at Pure Tuning for advice and always having time to help out.
In the end I came up a bit short of my goals, but it was a great event and I'm now looking towards the last regional event in 3 weeks. Winning the region is probably not possible, but I'm hoping to wrap up 2nd place. Not a bad season.
Greg
'19 Genesis G70 3.3t AWD
'88 Chrysler Conquest TSI
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(but then again, masochism runs in my family).
It did clean up pretty good over the weekend, but I've got to get her fixed up this winter; it makes me sad.