Chasing the Dragon

[waltezee]

Nice I was disappointed with where they had the spectator areas set up at. But I also understand it was a safety thing to.

[Robevo]

so...
Was an interesting weekend at least.
here is in short:
Saturday we did one reccer run and then my wife took the car for a first practice run. My mistake , it was very heavy rain and let her go with a dry rally slicks (no cut tires)
She spun and hit the wall at the second turn. Then she fifnshed the run. She came down and we did go run up to see how the tires hold. Since we had no time to change between runs. (she runned grupe 1 i did run grupe 2 )
So we did test the tires and the notes. Was very slippery , but i decided to send her back on the same conditions.
Also i let her run all day to practice and loose all the draw back from the crash. She did great and i liked a way she drove in the heavy rain with those tires. They said Sunday will be sunny and picture perfect. So i decided to save the car for next day , also she will be much more confident on dry after the rain.
End of the day they shocked me with a news, i did run the fastest time of the day and already broke the standing Rally car class record . Which was done by a veteran rally driver with a Subaru sti
Next morning i lined up , put all the camera in teh car etc. So i did set up teh car for a race day. First launch , and kaboom for the rear diff. The rear bracket of the diff broke off. No spare = go home.
But i did managed to finish with my only time really overall 4th and come home with a new rally class racord and the class win.
the cars they did run faster then me, on the second day (after practice) and with the dry conditions. Also i think worth to mention , the standing still hill climb record is 9 sec faster then my run:
here are the first 3 car:


Video of the last one
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=4061878258800

[KickAss]

Sorry to hear about car troubles. Check out Jack's Transmissions, they just started offering rebuilt rear and center diffs. This is a new service that they just started doing.

[Robevo]

thanks

[waltezee]

Sorry to hear about the diff to you might want to hit up happymint since aparently his issue was with the tranny. Did the 111 run on Saturday I didn't see it run before the lunch break.

[Robevo]

this is cool
"First run of the day, Robert Martai and Marcel Ceaskay had a bracket break on the diff on their beautiful Rally Evo. The day was done but their times from Saturday in the rain were good enough for Rally Class win, Class Record and <strong>4th place overall!</strong> THAT is an amazing run. We'll find out what they can do in the dry hopefully next Sping! Scott Sipler went from 2nd to 1st in SU Street Unlimited Class on his lst run of the day on BORROWED Slicks! Lots of great class competition and helping each other win... a trade mark of the Time Trial drivers in SEDIV! George Bowland and Blair Underwood only made a few runs but they made them count. They took 1st and 2nd overall against some strong pressure from Heikki Rinta-Koski and Robert Martai."
http://www.thesoutherndriver.com/wp/...something-new/
The launch they talking about:

You Tube

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[turbo toshi]

This looks fun as hell but not for my car