he competed in his first speed world race today. hunter,the guy from DC (sorry i forgot your name ) Will and I along with some of his home town friends were there to help out. he placed 25th. but it was a hell of a race. congrats

results are here http://www.world-challenge.com/2002/vir/tc-results.html

 

a noble effort.

 

congratulations

 

Congrats to him
Ive always wondered, how do you get into a situation where you can MAKE money racing?

 

Congrats man, I was there to watch it..

 

i got to change a tire during the race!

 

Right rear by any chance?

 

left front actually..... dont ask us how it went

 

COngratulations to all involved!

I regret having to miss the race itself but it was fun getting his car set up during practice and qualifying. Regardless of how he did on Sunday the very fact that he could build a car a week before the race, drive up from Florida, qualify (having never really driven the course before) and make a respectable showing impresses the hell out of me.

Did you guys ever figure out the oil burning issue?

Mike Broderick (the other guy from DC )

 

thats your name 92sleepR..... haha, i was looking up 92sleeper for ever to make sure it was you. damn i was sooo close yet so far. but yah it was a fun race, i dont think we figured the burning oil problem.

 

i didn't notice any oil burning during or after the race. maybe it just fixed itself however, blake had another problem he was more concerned about which was getting his car started on the grid after they kill the engines. he had to push start it on the pre-grid, and actually ended up leaving it running on the grid. i guess mufflers do come in handy...

 

yah, i dont think anyone noticed it was on...

 

If you looked at the rats nest behind the dash that passes for wiring on his car that might explain the starting problem I don't think the slight back pressure of the muffler would make any diference. I'm just glad that we qualified and that the car ran.

Having spent a little time at a 'real' race has really put the bug into my head to build an all out race civic myself. I spent a lot of time lurking around the RealTime tent and a few other fast integras to see how they were setup. It was great just to be there.

Mike

 

Oh gotcha. We saw him (I think this is your friend, the one with the valet parkng hat looking antennae on the front of the roof - we were calling it the hat-check civic ) come through Nascar Bend at such a bizaare angle that we thought something had broken. The subsequent lap was the pit stop (I think, or he had an off - this was around middle of the race after the FCY). I was just wondering when I asked about the right rear if maybe he had corded it. After that pit (or long lap) the car looked fine through there.

 

yeah it was a loooooooooong pitstop...

 

[QUOTE] (I think this is your friend, the one with the valet parkng hat looking antennae on the front of the roof - we were calling it the hat-check civic ) QUOTE]

HA HA HA. ROTFLMAO!!

The Tech guys at weigh in asked us if the car doubled as a pizza delivery vehicle! I nearly wet myself. Its actually an air scoop. Blake races the civic in rally as well.

Mike


[Modified by 92sleepR, 7:33 PM 10/28/2002]

 

im just amazed that he does better than most of the AWD cars out there..

 

Willard just told me that they rigged up a catch can for the PCV breather out of an empty can of Red Bull and some spare vacuum hose I had bought that morning Ghetto, no budget racing at its finest . I hope someone got a picture of that.

It was truely a great weekend and a ton of fun. I wish I had stayed but I just had to get back to DC by sunday morning.

Mike

 

 

i wanna see a video of our pitstop! i hope someone got it on camera! LOL well... maybe i don't

 

hahah.... y0 hunter... somtins wrong with my camera... all the footage from sat. i cant find on the tape. its wierd cuz i know we recorded it. hmm.. i have sundays footage of the race.. ima keep trying. and ima email blake bout ma camera.. hope he has it

 

yea, i'm sure he does. we definantly gotta watch those tapes

 

Im looking at Blakes pic on my Acura parts calendar for this month, lucky. Rode with him at RR a few months ago and hes a real cool guy...as well as his dad who got some times for me. Congrats to Blake.

 

i remember a white integra i saw at road atlanta did the same thing except with an empty bottle of water.

 

Blake Fuller, are you on here, I live In Bradenton just up the street from you.