NASA-SE Pot of Gold Rush Road Atlanta
My second race at Road Atlanta this year, this time with a substantially larger and more competitive group. Weather on Saturday was marginal, it rained on and off all day so we never had consistent traction. Spotty rain is often the worst – you end up with a dry racing line but offline is wet which makes passing even harder than usual. And that’s exactly what happened during the Saturday race, plus we only got about 15 min of racing since the last half was run entirely under standing yellow. My video camera ran out of memory so nothing was recorded but there wasn’t much to see anyway. Qualified 13th out of 20, finished 11th.
Sunday was cloudy and overcast but dry (meaning no rain, but the track was quite damp for our early qualifying session). I managed a respectable seventh out of about twenty cars which put me in a decent starting position for the afternoon race. Unfortunately I drove too conservatively, which simply won’t get the job done in such a competitive field, and lost a few positions as the race progressed. Things got even worse when it went full course yellow just after the race leader (in a different class) passed me so the pace car came out in front of him and trapped me, everyone that I was chasing ran off ahead and everyone that I had been pulling away from stacked up right behind me. But hey, that’s racing! Lost a couple more spots thanks to some nice driving by my competitors, but we all finished without any incidents and had fun. Finished 13th, giving me plenty of room for improvement next time.
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Coming up next: instructing at several HPDEs in March and April, then the next race is at CMP in early May.
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2010 Season, Race Results, Video | jtower | 
March 18, 2010 23:04
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