NASA Hyperfest 2009 ReidSpeed race report!

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hi glen (sorry i didn't get to hang out with you more this weekend;  as you found out, it is jam-packed full of things to do!!!)!    it was awesome seeing glen, and darren, and josh, and hunt, and scott and and and ! 

here's the quick report; we gave it our best, but i let the Probe down on Saturday's short race - I qualified poorly, and was quite a bit down the grid for the start of the race. I got a good start, and drove super hard, and eventually got back to 2nd in PTE, behind Scott's #67 SE-R. I had used up the tires, and there was nothing i could do... 2nd place! i have some limited video footage of the race -- the camera came loose from the mount and fell off, hanging upside down by it's safety strap; most of the footage is upside down, of my feet and the floorboards!Sunday's long race was a different story; i qualified 2nd in PTE, and there were only a few cars between me and Scott (this Hyperfest weekend we were mixed with a bunch (maybe 10?) H2 Honda Challenge cars which are much faster than PTE cars). I got a good start, and the race was on! in very short order i was on Scott's rear bumper, trying to attack, but i had 3 much faster H2 cars behind me, also wanting to get by the both of us.... it was a real mess, with the H2'ers filtering in and out and at one point really separating Scott from me... I just drove as hard as i could, without burning the car down, and i reclosed on scott. we went at it really hard, and......i guess it's better to just watch the vid! (camera did NOT fall off this time!):

http://www.vimeo.com/5265084

excellent racing.the top three of us PTE'ers ran best laps of within less than a tenth (1:27.7 + or - a titch), and the track was NOT fast (i think it was at least a second slow). T1 was a mess, and the carousel was not good). we were moving.  i hold the PTE track record there at a 1:27.1, and i would have crushed that if the track had been fresh and 'good'....

todd

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