This weekend my customer drove his Turbo escort (my old white car) in NASA's PTB class at Cal Speedway. This was his very first race ever, after succesfully completing the Driving Concepts school just last month. I've been coaching him at a frantic pace the last 6 months getting him up to speed as quick as humanly possible to get him ready to take the school/get him to his first race---what a relief to finally have this one done and over with!!!
Saturday he ran a short practice, qualified 3RD in class, started around 10th overall in the field. He got eaten up at the start, and then worked his way back to the podium, finishing 3rd in class and 6th overall!!
Sunday morning practice went smooth and then we boosted up for qualifing (whopping 9lbs---we usually only give him 4.5lbs...) and he went about 3 seconds faster with the HP, but the field was deeper and he still qualified 3rd/12 overall. Only one RX8 got him at the start and then he held his own, had a nissan get by him and then he got an Acura at the end for 3rd and 9th overall. No dents or scratchs, everyone's stoked.
The start
The RX8 got him into Nascar one
Catching the Acura on the infield
Got a good run at him onto the banking
Got him easily by the end of the front straight
The Checkered flag!!
Saturday he ran a short practice, qualified 3RD in class, started around 10th overall in the field. He got eaten up at the start, and then worked his way back to the podium, finishing 3rd in class and 6th overall!!
Sunday morning practice went smooth and then we boosted up for qualifing (whopping 9lbs---we usually only give him 4.5lbs...) and he went about 3 seconds faster with the HP, but the field was deeper and he still qualified 3rd/12 overall. Only one RX8 got him at the start and then he held his own, had a nissan get by him and then he got an Acura at the end for 3rd and 9th overall. No dents or scratchs, everyone's stoked.
The start
The RX8 got him into Nascar one
Catching the Acura on the infield
Got a good run at him onto the banking
Got him easily by the end of the front straight
The Checkered flag!!
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