Friday, May 10, 2013

Day six Pittsburgh International Race Complex

We are in the greater Beaver Run area near Pittsburg and its WET...... It was raining when we left the hotel and continued to rain when we arrived at the track so we rush the the track offices to pay for a garage area to get us out of the rain, so you know what that means. It stopped raining, imagine that. It worked out to the good though the first groups that went out and helped dry the track off some but every corner was still wet when our group went out. This was a neat track though small, it was concerning when went to you tube to see posted video of the track to see that the majority of the videos posted were of Go Karts. Could of good straight always with elevation changes throughout. 

The first session while still wet in the corners surprisingly still had grip till I got to turn 11, then not so much as I thought, while sliding the brakes into the turn, somehow I throttled it through 12 to see the corner worker jumping up and down with joy that I had save it and not spun. After that the next two laps went pretty easily as I did not want to have three spins in he event. There was a little drama at the end as I blew past a competitor on the main straight before going to take the checkered before entering turn one, I made sure to keep race pace and get offline far left to the apex to make sure to give him room for him to finish his last lap. We finished the first session in 29th position over all and very happy with that as we all know that White Trash does not like water. Everyone remembers that White Trash doesn't see water very often, unless its to bet its semi annual bath with its normal Scotchbrite pads and Bleach enhanced Comet Cleanser, that does by the way blend in the sporadic splotches of Rustoleum white spray paint very well by the way.


For the second session the sun partially came out and the track was nice and dry for all competitors. We started in our normal group and ran some pretty good laps but left a lot on the track as I know in did not brake deep enough in turn one and was timid in the first downhill section. Other then a delayed shift on lap two the second downhill section the track was really fun. We finished the second session in 21at place overall and 1st in Vintage Foreign, our overall ranking for the entire group moved up to 26 position overall but a full 300 points out of being able to break into the top 25, so close........but yet out of our reach 





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