Hello Everyone,
Well, here we are in Topeka, Kansas again for our third attempt to win a national sports car racing championship. We arrived here last Thursday after 2 ½ days of driving across the country (32 driving hours).
We spent the rest of Thursday and all day Friday getting set up and making final adjustments to the car. Saturday was our first test day, and we got 3 full 35 minute on track sessions through the day. We made a lot of changes and improvements to the car, and went over 2 seconds faster than our best lap time last year. On Sunday we tested again, but didn’t have such good luck. We ran the entire first session, but had a half shaft failure at the end. However, our lap time improved again over Saturday. On the second session, 5th gear failed on the transmission, and we were forced to make a transmission change. While we were completing the installation of the replacement transmission, we discovered a water leak in the cooling system. This proved more troublesome to fix, and it took until this morning to complete, making us miss our first qualifying session yesterday afternoon. Today we had the day off and did a number of small changes to the car, as well as taking it to the official scales to weigh and measure the track (distance between the front or rear tires) to make sure we were legal in these areas.
Tomorrow we will make our first qualifying attempt at 10am Central time (8am Pacific, 11am Eastern). You can use the link below to watch the session live, or to review the results later. Our class is GTL (GT Lite). Our final qualifying session is on Thursday at 2pm Central Time (Noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern). Our race is on Saturday at 4:15pm Central (2:15pm Pacific, 5:15pm Eastern).
