Week 5: CMS Prototype Grand AM at Daytona International Speedway - Road (June 1)

[JMH714]

[Troy Dalton]

Looking forward to it, it should be fun!

[davidan]

Great Poster John!!!! - DA

[JMH714]

Thanks, David. Wait till you see SPA poster next week.

Lately, I have been "learning" Photoshop tricks by going to sites that give you step by step. It was fun to learn them.

[JMH714]

Reminder - race tonight and David will start the host session.

[Charles Stout]

Fun race last night. Troy - i cant believe your luck man. It's either checkers or wreckers it seems for you lol.

[Troy Dalton]

Fun race last night. Troy - i cant believe your luck man. It's either checkers or wreckers it seems for you lol.

Yea, that always seems to be the case, but I had fun anyway.

For those of you who missed it, I started from the pole and led the first lap, but heading into T1 on lap two, my sequential shifter decided to skip a gear on me. Yea, skip...not miss, so I went from 5th to 2nd in about 100 yards. Needless to say, that's not good for an engine, but at least the state of Florida doesn't need to fog Daytona for mosquitos now. Anyway, I limped the car around, pitted, and the crew repaired the car in about 15 seconds. I never even lost a lap and after Dave dropped out, finished third.

So, the lesson learned here is...your crew won't fix suspension damage, but they can replace a low end bearing in less time than it takes to put on new tires. Awesome!

[DaveS]

Sorry for dropping out guys but a family matter came up and I had to leave. I was having fun while it last though

DaveS

[Charles Stout]

No worry Dave - nice little scrap there at the start

Also for those who werent there - Devin was leading most of the race. I just tucked in behind and waited for the end like i usually do. About 6 laps to go i spun coming out of the chicane. Terrible place to spin really leading to a looooong straight away. Well i somehow made up a 6 second gap and made the pass in T1 on the last lap. Pretty exciting for me at least lol.

[JMH714]

My night was completely disaster… 24 friggin’ incidents!!!! I have never had that high - not even in official races (17 was the highest on last Silverado race at Daytona which they all are not my fault. )

I almost, I mean ALMOST, hit Dave on first turn at the beginning – he jump right front of me as he trying to avoid someone. When I drove around at corner 1 & 2, the car feel “light” and then I realized that I forgot to add fuel after qualifying. So, I stopped to get more fuel and then it slapped me black flag for exiting pit stop unsafe. Ugh. And rest of the race was completely messy with all “lost control” and “off track” incidents (one crash). I lost rhythm completely.

I don’t deserve 4th place as I took it on final lap.

So, next week Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.