At Hallett Raceway 44 cars took to the 10 turn 1.8 mile track October 20 for the World Racing League 8 hour endurance race. Saturday we ran the course clockwise. I will update with video clips and other pictures as I get them.....
Sunrise shines on the control tower, each morning the "chicken song" plays over the PA, and before any cars take to the race track we begin with the national anthem (as it should be!).
This actually happened during our practice day. The driver of our car says he didn't drop it off of any curbs or anything, it just let go. Apparently these 949Racing 6UL wheels are notorious for breaking.
Saturday we finished 4th in class, and 14th overall. Honestly we only got 4th because the previous 4th place car had a hub fail and was unable to repair it before the race ended.
Sunday 41 cars took to the field, which we ran Counter Clockwise. Our Miata actually had three car to car contacts which is super rare. I was in the car for two of the incidents. One of them I was the 3rd car of four car group, all of us were pretty close to the same speed. The car behind me tried to dive in ton the inside of a turn, which has a low percentage of success anyways. That car ended up doing a pit maneuver on my passenger rear, spun me around. Fortunately no one else hit me. I got the car back to pits, and we found that both the front & rear alignment was knocked out of whack, and the was damaged. We got the car back on track and were able to finish 9th in class, and roughly 18th in class.
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