Summit DE to NASA race weekend

[fasthonda]

hi guys!

had a GREAT weekend at NASA!    sat was 'weather' day -- was it gonna rain or was it going to start to dry out?   i went with my dry tires;  shaved Toyo RA-1s which started at 4/32 (and this was their 5th weekend, so i'd guess between 1 and 2/32nds left).  the rest of the PTE'ers went with full tread RA-1s, except for darren who went with the Hoosier Rains!

i think i drove a great race on sat (i had qualified 2nd by less than a tenth behind Wade an SE-R;  it was mostly dry for qualifying);  during the race, i ran at 100%, slipping and sliding and trying my best to keep Darren behind me;  he was over a full second per lap faster than i was, but he had a throttle cable break and went off behind me in T1;  after that it was just manage traffic and stay ahead of one of the other 'fast' PTE SE-Rs (and it was raining more and more as the laps went on):

http://www.vimeo.com/6241200

sunday was dry and hot!  i qualified 2nd behind Darren (darren was flying!);  he had me by about half a sec.   i got a good start, and 'ReidSpeeded' everyone into T1 and got the lead!  Darren and i fought it out in a BIG way;  i gave him everything i had, but i couldn't hold him once we got into heavy traffic.  when he got around me, i tried my darndest to stick with him, but he was .5 secs per lap faster, and i slid back.  as he said, i had reclosed to within less than 1.4 seconds at the finish;  i wish there had been another 5-10 mins of racing!   awesome job, darren!!!!

http://www.vimeo.com/6244932

well, that's the quick report!!!   

todd

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