Buttowillow and then Buttonwillow
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lostcaptcha
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There's no Hondas running this year so you should be good 
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There's no Hondas running this year so you should be good
Thanks! Bad news is Eric in his Mazda 2 and I already had contact at thunderhill, lol
Derrick
There's no Hondas running this year so you should be good
Hopefully your race goes better than last years.
9:45 for the money shift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjRfNaq2EIglostcaptcha
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Hopefully your race goes better than last years.
Well gotta have the car running first
Yeah I really should have brought the car into the pits after I did that, would have made getting it on the trailer way easier. Oh well at least I know the car can temporarily survive a few 12k miss-shifts.
lostcaptcha
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Shooting for it, tranny is at the shop getting upgraded hopefully I'll have it back by tomorrow.
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Well last weekend could have been better for me as I placed second both days. The first day I had a weird shake when I was over 85MPH. What made it a little worse was the right hand corner you enter flat out at 95mph and after a few laps I was lifting to lower the speeds a bit. The right front tire decided to not play nice and started to come apart
Back out after changing tires to see if the problem was sorted but it was still there. I was also getting a weird noise out of the front end. I put the car up and did a nut and bolt check over everything and found the right front control arm bolt at the rear was a little loose which did the trick.
Sunday was much better as I was able to get a jump on the start and get into the lead. I lost the lead a lap or two later but kept it really close for 4-5 laps (and set a new track record in the process). Eventually that flat out corner got the best of me and I lifted on one of the laps when the car felt really funny (I didn't feel like going off the track at 95mph into the dirt). After that I spent the rest of my race working on better lines as the first place car had gapped me pretty good.
Next stop Pacific raceways which looks to be the last trip there as the property has been purchased by a real estate developer.
-Derrick
Back out after changing tires to see if the problem was sorted but it was still there. I was also getting a weird noise out of the front end. I put the car up and did a nut and bolt check over everything and found the right front control arm bolt at the rear was a little loose which did the trick.
Sunday was much better as I was able to get a jump on the start and get into the lead. I lost the lead a lap or two later but kept it really close for 4-5 laps (and set a new track record in the process). Eventually that flat out corner got the best of me and I lifted on one of the laps when the car felt really funny (I didn't feel like going off the track at 95mph into the dirt). After that I spent the rest of my race working on better lines as the first place car had gapped me pretty good.
Next stop Pacific raceways which looks to be the last trip there as the property has been purchased by a real estate developer.
-Derrick
