Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Just a little setback at One Lap

It has been a while since I have posted.  Suffice to say we have had an eventful couple of days.  I will try to give you the short version and fill in the details in later posts.  Our big problem came Sunday when I was into my second run at Memphis International Raceway and I was down on power and could hear popping and missing of the engine.  It turns out I had a bent valve and two broken valve springs.  The valve springs were the double springs so the second spring didn't let the valve drop and create any catastrophic failure.  This was probably the result of an overaggressive down shift resulting in over revving the engine. Once that was analyzed the head had to come off and a new valve and springs installed and everything reassembled.  We didn't get to run the 4 events on Monday at New Orleans or Mobile, Alabama so we lost point and fell down the score charts.  With the car back together late Monday we left for Atlanta Motorsports Park at 7:30 pm and only had 450 miles to go.  We got to the motel at 2 am and got a little sleep.

After Atlanta we traveled 147 miles to Greer, South Carolina to the BMW Performance Center for an event in the evening.  As each of us completed our run at BMW we loaded the cars as quickly as possible since we had another 650 miles to go to southern New Jersey before we could get to the motel.  If you do the math you can see we didn't get there till way late.  Shane and I got checked in at 4 am and got just a couple hours of sleep.  Several arrived after we did and got even less sleep.

That's all for tonight, I'll share more of the details in subsequent posts.  We run at Mid Ohio tomorrow and Gingerman in Michigan on Thursday.

1 comment:

  1. You had me wondering what was going on with the DNSs at NOLA and Mobile. Glad to hear you got it fixed and running again - looks like you are doing good again!

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