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Live Well 250 The Milwaukee Mile
Day1-
Tech
This was a total 360 from Dover. We went through Tech with
only a few small problems. One was that one of the Roof
Rails was over to far we needed to move it in about ¼"
.(see photo)
The Roof Rail is a small thin strip that deflects air on
the roof of the car. One of the other problems was the steering
Wheel needed a Shut off button for both A/B Ignition Box.
This was a safety feature. We got our practice tires and
we brought our qualifying tires to impound, we had a mix
up getting our qualifiers from Goodyear which almost made
us late for getting the qualifiers to impound. This is a
bad thing. Don't be late for scheduled NASCAR Times!
(For
those who don't understand. When you go to the race you
are required to purchase 2 new sets of tires. One set for
Practice, another for qualifying. You have to have your
qualifying tires into an area that NASCAR flags off which
is the" impound" for Qualifiers. A Nascar Official
puts a sticker on the tire. When the race starts you don't
have to use new tires, we have a limited budget and it is
hard without sponsorship to buy the amount of tires we need.
Tires run $1400 a set. So we use our qualifiers to start
with and our practice tires to back it up. You can purchase
tires during the race.)
Day
2- Practice
How sweet it is… Billy got out for practice and the
car was handling great. He said that he was in the car screaming
whoopee, like a kid in a candy store. His times were not
the greatest but that was because we don't have a back up
car and a few cars have had wrecks in practice. We need
to keep safety in mind with the limited budget we are running
with at the track. When the car came in the team did some
inspection and found that the car had dropped. We made some
adjustments but ran out of time to practice on the new setup
before qualifying. Bill felt real good about qualifying,
but when he got out on the track for qualifying the new
setup did not play in his favor the car didn't handle as
well as it did in practice and our time for qualifying was
not very good. Now we wait it out. Here is the scenario.
There were 4 teams behind us in points. Each of these teams
had high budgets. If all these teams qualify in the top
36 we would be sent home, if one of them don't then we would
use our provisional and one of the four teams would be sent
home. This was a pretty intense hour. We had to just sit
back and watch. Well as you probably already know, we got
in the race. 2 of the teams lower than us in points didn't
qualify in 36th and this gave us the provisional. I have
no more finger nails left.
After
Quilifying we bought a new set of springs, changed the camber
tolernance and Bill went out for Happy hour. He said the
car was back and felt better than before. As I said before
non-stop action and we haven't even started the race yet.
how long can alcohol be detected in urine to where to buy synthetic urine to alcohol analyzer
Day
3- Race Day
Could some one please turn the oven off? There were reports
that the track was 114 Degrees on race day. That's Hot.
We were ready. Off to final tech, no problems, and out to
the track. We set the car up on the track, that was pretty
cool.
The race began and Bill looked good he was keeping pace
with the lead lap and moving up in position, we were all
getting really excited. Then around lap 17 he pulled into
pit row. We were having trouble with Bill's helmet radio,
he could hear johnny who was spotting but we couldn't hear
Bill, not a good thing. Anyway Bill pulls in to the pit
and he is yelling out to Jeff that something was wrong,
we could not tell what he was saying so Jeff did a quick
inspection of the tires and nothing appeared noticeable
from a quick inspection. Bill pulled back out and ran about
2 more laps and had to pull the car in, he went straight
to the garage area. The garage area was about a ¼
mile from our pit. He was also penalized 2 Laps for speeding
on pit row. I ran down to the garage area to see what was
wrong. He said " the car was bouncing around the track
but we are fixing it and going back out". We thought
we may have broke a shock but what had happened is the chain
that attaches from the body to the rear, this helps pull
the back tires up for changing tires, had bound up. We got
under and fixed the chain. By the time all this had taken
place we had lost about 30 laps, Im not sure of the exact
numbers. Bill got back out on the track and after a lap
to clean the tires got back up to speed.
He
ran about 50 more laps on the original tires before pulling
in to pit, we changed right side tires and added fuel. He
was going to go back out and come in again for a left side
tires but after about 10 laps he had engine problems, lost
a cylinder. We went with a strong gear to get out of the
turns well but the rev limiter was hitting 86rpm at the
end of the straight away. The Rev Limiter will shut the
engine down at 86rpms. Bill said that he was hitting the
Rev limiter from the start of the race.
We finished 36th after starting 42nd we completed 81 laps
and for the budget this team has I feel this was a very
good showing. Wait till we have some sponsors.
