Jul
13
2009

Video, Newspaper, Web Coverage

– Edited 7/31/09 – Jalopnik Coverage: Jalopnik Uber Gallery Part 1 — 18 pics of our car Jalopnik Uber Gallery Part 5 — 3 pics of our car at the top This is the Jalopnik article that details most of the cars in the race. We are 19th down. We got a nice picture on [...]

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Jul
13
2009

What happened to the last month?

Historical Updates Coming Soon We went over a month during the build of the car without giving any updates (since June 9th).  That was because we had to seriously buckle down and scramble to finish the car.  We did finish it just in time, with the last roll cage bar being welded in the day [...]

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Jul
13
2009

Carbotech Brake Pads are Amazing

Carbotech Brake Pads One thing I must say now is that Carbotech brake pads are absolutely amazing.  We had zero fade, and were able to dive deeper into the corner off the main straight, often making passes that way because others braked much earlier.  The pads were always there, and were very confidence inspiring.  No [...]

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Jul
12
2009

Ceremony

Awards: must be present to win.

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Jul
12
2009

Award schwag

The awards. Will we get one? Doubtful.

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Jul
12
2009

Results

Completed 948 laps for 19th place. We were 11th in Class 2.

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Jul
12
2009

Penalties

Lemons is famous for the creative penalties. Brice went first this morning (Sunday). He hit a cone. Then another. So he got black flagged. Punishment was transvestitism and hamburger fetching.  (Brice’s edit: I was not the only one to get a penalty, but my punishment was the funniest…does that green dress make me look fat?)

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Jul
12
2009

Action

The course is very tight. The big passing opportunity is the big back part of the oval. A riskier passing area is at the end of the straight. Right here it goes very tight and twisty.

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Jul
12
2009

The curse

Not us. Keith got to let out some frustration. The cursed car smashed him at one point.

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Jul
12
2009

Pre race fuel up

Pit crew has to have full nomex and car has to be in the special area.

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