Racing School Report

We went over to Roebling Road near Savannah, GA last weekend to support the SEDiv road racing school. Daddy and I worked on a corner all weekend waving flags and talking on the radio while watching our buddies earn their licenses - the same school I drove in last year. This year friend/mechanic/co-worker, Brett Whisenant, drove my car in the school. After pulling in to the driveway at 2:15am Monday morning, I took a little nap and drove to Nashville to catch a plane to Baltimore for business until this evening (Wednesday). I'm taking tomorrow off to work on the car a little and see if I can get it ready to go to Road Atlanta for my first race of the season. Here's a short summary of last weekend:

What a great weekend! All of the Huntsville/TVR guys (and our ALSCCA buddy, JohnW8) did a fantastic job! I watched the weekend from the T9 worker station and only had one car smack the pit wall - and he ended up doing a little sledge hammer body work and returning to the event.

There were 2 puckering moments, though. One, when David J broke something on the front suspension and took an exciting (expensive) ride into the tires a T1. The worker net at first reported he had rolled, but then corrected the report to say the hard impact stood the car on its nose and then back down on the wheels. David was ok. And I think we can put the car back together.

The other "moment" was when a GT car oiled the track from T6a all the way to T2! A group of 4 cars ended up in the grass across from our station - 2 of them making metal-to-metal contact. You guessed it... the BuggBoyZ Honda got punched by a T1 Vette - right in front of me. It bent a wheel and a trailing arm, dented the rear quarter a little, tweaked the chassis a little, and tore the bumper cover. It must have been the steering wheel's fault, because I could see Brett having a heated 'discussion' with it as he limped it onto pit road and behind the wall. It took us 15-20 minutes to get the oil taken care of under the Black Flag, and when I went back to the station, I saw Craig Farr pumping his arms up in the air in victory and pointing. I looked over to the pit lane and Brett was re-entering the grid to finish the session!

Brett and Tom Turner and several others had replaced the trailing arm and pulled enough stuff out of the way to get it aligned and back! Incredible!! I plan to take a close look at everything this week and try my best to make Road ATL by Friday afternoon! It's going to be close!