Thursday, May 10. 2007
wow.......
yesterday morning at hallet.. it was wet... 100mph 4th gear wheel spin with corded rear tires down the strate.... we kep it on track... and didnt lose many points....
2nd session we got 3rd... right where we need to be....
yesterday morning we started taking it extremly easy on the car.. the boost is turned all the way down.. and im keepign wheel spin to a minimum...
leaving the track we heard a squeeking noise coming from the back left..... yep.. a wheel bearing...
about a hour down the road.. the thing is SCREEMING and the hub feels like its gona fall off... we call marshal mogan and he calls Steve Vache and Bill Hansen..... we just so happen to be going thre st luis.. where these guys are from... Bill lets us come to his house.. and rip his hub off his car.. and greg, bill, and steve do a very late night.. very difficult.. rusty... hub swap.... i cannot say thanks enough to bill and steve... these guys are awsome...
i slep in the driveway a little.. and watched... then we had a problem with the axle.. the threads had been mushroomed... so i hacksawd threadpattern into the first 2mm of the axle.. and it worked... somehow...
me and greg rotated drives to indy... it was a very difficult drive.. we were extremly tired...
other then my hour on the concrete driveway at bills house... and gregs 45min in the supra while on the way to indy... we have had no sleep....
we BARLY make it to indy.... we drove strate to grid.. and was a little late... didnt even have time to walk to track or look at the track map.... only thing i ever seen about this track was a vid 3 weeks ago!!.. haha.. on my warm up lap.. i was told i went off track in the "parkinglot" session and totoaly missed turn 6... i told the guy... "i didnt go to sleep last night... and have no idea if the first turn is a left or a rite.... but i wil try my best".. he was like... "uhhhh... ok.. b safe!"
we were 6th i think. this morning.. on 17psi... no sliding at all.... just making the car last......
