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In here I will keep track of the overall race specs of each race. What race, how we did, how the course was, mile per hour average, trouble with the car and how the winner placed mile per hour to see how far off the pace we were.
Lets go back to the very first race and work down from there.
ORAF 400 mile race 2007 Rough course with big 40+ mile loops. Fuel pump problems and raced half of race in dark. Motor died and had to be towed. Lost Alternator and had to run without air breather, radio, headlights etc. last two laps. We ran a 28 mph average and the winner had a 41mpha. Took us 10 hours 8 minutes Took 3rd place though
Freedom 250 Night Race 2007 New light bar kept going out. Lost lights had to run off in on in dark. Hit a big out cropping of rock and broke the front shock mount off the car had to stop and weld it back on after limping into pits from about the half way point on the track. We ran a 24 mph average and the winner ran a 38mpha We finished in 7 hours 32 minutes. We took 3rd place
Lucerne 200 Race 2007 Long course with some small but very rough sections river bottom slow and sandy, rollers and hill sections Lost motor, removed fuel filters and then motor burned up. Did not finish. we where running a 29 mph average. The winner ran a 41mph average but second only ran a 31 mpha. DNF
Powder Puff Race 2007 Timed event do as many laps as you can in 3.5 hours. Pepper drove with Destiny as co driver. She did 6 laps and finished in 11th out of well over 20 cars. She had a 31 mph average, the winner had a 40mph average the same as the class one cars. She had one flat tire and stopped each lap to take on fuel and check on the car. She ran for 3 hours 19 minutes total to finish 6 laps within the 3.5 hour time limit
Toys For Tots 250 2007 38 mile loops 3 of them and then 5 small 20 mile loops Very rough course especially on the big loops. Then small loops are fine no problems. Rained all night and course was so wet we could hardly go or stay on course. 1 flat, repaired cv boot, broke exhaust, broke some push rod tubes leaking oil badly. Had about a 35 mph average The winner had about a 45 mph average. Finished the race in 4 hours 50 minutes. Took 4th place.
Kartek Challange 2008 Timed event run as many laps as you can We ran 7 laps, no flats, had the coil wires get torn out and had to stop for 10 minutes and fix them. Thats it all else was good. Fast track really fast. Very little rough spots. 3:29 minutes to do 7 laps, with a 36 mph average winner had a 42mph average We took 2nd place.
Balls Out 250 2008 Timed event. This was the rougher Collage section out at Barstow. We saw a ton of broke down vehicles. We ran perfect. No flats no problems at all. We took 5th.. not so good but ran good. Tried out the new BFG tires, 31's instead of 33's We ran a 33 mph average and the winner ran a 39 mile per hour average. Took 5th place
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