Frustrating weekend.
Saturday morning it was gorgeous outside, perfect weather, almost cool. It warmed up to upper 80s, little overcast. It was humid, but the Midwest is always humid.
Started the day out by my transponder not hitting because it wasn't charged. I need to do better about pulling it out to charge it, rather than relying on the car to charge it. Especially when there's 2-3 weeks between events. When I ran my Gen IV ACR, I would drive it sporadically between events and keep it charged.
We ran the Roval course.
The bus stop/chicane in the picture isn't very indicative to what it was actually like. It was much tighter. I'd brake to about 58-62mph from 140+. I ran my fastest time the third session out at 10:30am. I ran a warm up lap, then laid down a scorcher of a lap with a 1:24.45. My transponder STILL didn't hit, so afterwards I pulled it out and charged it manually. I'm adding that to my race-prep checklist. In the last session of the day all I could muster was a 1:25.76 (new official record) with traffic, but had an optimal of 1:24.15. 170mph was fast, that's about as quick as I want to go I think. Took a lot of trust in tires and brakes.
My clutch started slipping in the afternoon pretty bad. I ended up killing it completely first thing Sunday morning. Reached out to Toddy at Bad Boyzz Garage and getting one coming.
On the way to the hotel Saturday night, my 3 year old pulled the SD Card out of my Garmin Catalyst and it forced a reformat. So, until I can figure something out, I can't access the video. Fortunately I think it's still there, because all of the data is still there and I haven't overwritten it with anything new. Fingers crossed I can find a company or someone to pull it for me. With that said, if anyone of you geniuses can help, it'd be MUCH appreciated.
Saturday morning it was gorgeous outside, perfect weather, almost cool. It warmed up to upper 80s, little overcast. It was humid, but the Midwest is always humid.
Started the day out by my transponder not hitting because it wasn't charged. I need to do better about pulling it out to charge it, rather than relying on the car to charge it. Especially when there's 2-3 weeks between events. When I ran my Gen IV ACR, I would drive it sporadically between events and keep it charged.
We ran the Roval course.
The bus stop/chicane in the picture isn't very indicative to what it was actually like. It was much tighter. I'd brake to about 58-62mph from 140+. I ran my fastest time the third session out at 10:30am. I ran a warm up lap, then laid down a scorcher of a lap with a 1:24.45. My transponder STILL didn't hit, so afterwards I pulled it out and charged it manually. I'm adding that to my race-prep checklist. In the last session of the day all I could muster was a 1:25.76 (new official record) with traffic, but had an optimal of 1:24.15. 170mph was fast, that's about as quick as I want to go I think. Took a lot of trust in tires and brakes.
My clutch started slipping in the afternoon pretty bad. I ended up killing it completely first thing Sunday morning. Reached out to Toddy at Bad Boyzz Garage and getting one coming.
On the way to the hotel Saturday night, my 3 year old pulled the SD Card out of my Garmin Catalyst and it forced a reformat. So, until I can figure something out, I can't access the video. Fortunately I think it's still there, because all of the data is still there and I haven't overwritten it with anything new. Fingers crossed I can find a company or someone to pull it for me. With that said, if anyone of you geniuses can help, it'd be MUCH appreciated.
