Thunderhill What IF!!

We had a great weekend at Thunderhill and managed to finish 24th out of 112 starters. Here are the if only and what ifs!....

However, what if:

1.What if Tedders hadn’t gotten caught out by the oil and didn’t spin off the track at turn 9 and our suspension didn’t get bent and the lower A arm bushing bolt hadn’t come loose? First a stop after the spin for the penalty box and then our pit work to investigate the damage took 45 minutes.

2. what if we didn’t have to go into town, buy an “American” oversized bolt, have the human bench grinder of Tedders and Peter grind down the ½ inch bolt to 12mm so it would fit though the bushing and then force the big ass Amercan bolt threads to cross thread into the metric nut (nice track fix!) we would have saved 30 minutes

3. What if Darrells head set worked right away, would have saved 9 minutes.

4. And finally, what if the axle didn’t break with 20 minutes left in the race and I could have taken the checked flag.

Put that all together is a total of 104 minutes lost. Using 2:30 laps (of course we could do them all at 2:30) would give us 41 additional laps! We finished 299 laps, plus 41 would have been 340 laps. The winner completed 361. 340 laps would have put us in 7th overall!!! Just imagine 7th overall!

That would have put us ahead of Spin-n-Out, the B Class winner Porsche 944 “Eco Challenged”, the “B Team” Crown Vic, the Team Harlequin VW Golf Mk2, Caffenine Unlimited BMW, Chump Ganasse Targee (Target) Racing, E=MC Hammered V8 powered BMW, Big Sausage Pizza Delivery, and the Santa Cruz cops V8 powered Nissan Z Hit and Run Racing to name just a few.

We can be top 10 and we will be top 10 in October! A hotter cam, few more tips from Jeremy, keep Tedders on the black and we are there!

More details later, gotta go back to work.

Great race everyone.

Mr. Unruly