Here’s my summary of the event this past weekend.
Car Guys' organizational skills suck….period. All the people running the show were there Friday, but no registration or tech until Saturday morning. Imagine 120 cars to be teched in 1 hour.
Since tech was 7:00 to 8:00, most of us were sitting in that line even if you were there early. During this same time
ONE person is doing registration. Guess how long that line was for 120 people! The student meeting for the White Group was at 8:15, but I was standing in the registration line at this time along with many others. Luckily Aryan came out and pulled us out of line into the meeting.
So after the registration and tech fiasco, we finally get our first session on track. One lap, standing yellow flag, next lap standing yellow flag (track was very cold so this was good), next lap let’s roll…cool. We got one half of a hot lap then another standing yellow flag. Next lap, same thing, next lap, ditto. Nothing is wrong, so I’m driving around at 60 MPH and getting pissed. After the 5th lap I pitted. I figured I could drive for free at 70 MPH on my way home.
We were told later that some people were passing on the wrong side so we were all penalized because of it. Guess how many people were
REALLY pissed about that! We asked if those people were black-flagged and they said no. Hmmm, seems that would have been the proper way to handle it to me.
Session number two was w/o incident so we all had a good time. People were still passing on the wrong side (back straight) but again these people were not black-flagged.
I was given several signals on the wrong side, but didn’t take them because I didn’t want to get black-flagged. Session number three was about the same.
Session number four was cut short due to a full race prepared Ferrari losing it’s gear box and parking right outside pit out. We got a black flag all and we came in w/o incident while the Italian job was towed in. I hate to say it, but it was good riddance. That guy was up my a** from turn 1 to turn 6 even after I gave him the courtesy wave. I spoke to him afterwards about it and he just blew me off.
Sunday morning the green and yellow groups had to hit the tech line AGAIN at 7:00. Luckily it was decided the white group could be teched after our last Saturday session and avoid the line.
All of us in the white group received a tongue lashing in the driver’s meeting for our antics of session number one the previous day. At least we were given an extra 15 mins for the time lost due to the Ferrari’s failure so we were all very happy about that. A 45 min session is pretty long though, and I wouldn’t really want to go any longer after driving it.
All of our sessions in the white group on Sunday went very well. No problems with passing, signals, or really anything. I missed one session due to a power steering leak, but patched it up thanks to one of the people with Bowie Jr. giving me a piece of hose.
I talked to Bowie Jr. and told him I was not impressed. He replied “You weren’t impressed with the non-THSCC way of doing things?” Exactly. I so look forward to Rockingham where I know thing will run smoothly. Hope to see you guys there.
PS.
Adam, I watched some of your last session on Sunday.
You were really looking good in turn four. Not the easiest
one to get right in a FWD car. Good job man.
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