Thunderbolt Advanced day

[Brian Minkin]

My Saga of our advanced day.  2nd lap of familarization laps I noticed smoke behind my car at turn 3.  There is still water on the track so I am not sure if it is steam coming off the exhaust or smoke. 20 yards after turn 3 I decide it is smoke and look at oil pressure and its good. Smoke is getting thicker so I pull off line and put out my fist that I am going to pit in. By now I can smell that it is oil. Drove the rest of the way around the track and pitted in. Jump out of car in the paddock and there is oil pouring out and the back of the car is covered with oil. My day is done and I never even turned a hot lap.  To add insult to injury today I find out that it cost me $500 for 50 bags of oil dry to clean the track up. The damage is either a case stud or the cylinder on #4. Will Know more when the engine is torn down on Monday. Hope to have it back together in time for our 3 day event at thunderbolt.