[Texas Race #4] JUN 13-14th, 2009 - NASA at Hallett

A challenging weekend for me. Started out getting the trailer and truck stuck before leaving when we got over 5 inches of rain in about 16 hours. That delayed my arrival for the test day, but I still got 2 solid sessions in late Friday. Car running great and had a new set of slicks for Saturday. Qualified on pole in 5 car ST2 field breaking lap record by 1.2 seconds. A C5 Z06 was only a tenth back. Good start keeping the lead, but the vette was all over me, I was driving very hard and taking defensive lines to stay in front. The vette finally made a good pass on me and I started overdriving the car trying to keep up. I had a standard 4 off on corner exit staying in the power, but car snap spun on me when I hit bumps and tried to get back on the "racing surface". That flat spotted my brand new Pirelli slicks and also deactivated my ABS. I spun again 2 laps latter trying to learn again driving a non-ABS car. Car was hurt, so limped around. When the vette and I were pushing each other I lowered lap record down to 1:22.4 with him a tenth back. I would rather of had the win than the lap record though. Rest of weekend I was slow as on my practice tires, the driving was three times as hard for laps 2 seconds slower. I couldn't compete with the vette, but had some great fights for 2nd place. The vette went on to break my short lived lap record with a 1:21.5. That is very fast, the SCCA T1 record is 1:23.0.

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