SCCA Regional 08/29/04
A great weekend and a horrible weekend all in one. Great because I qualified in the top 10 for the first time in my racing career, managing 7th place on the grid. That was particularly joy-inspiring since this marked the first Spec Miata Challenge race for the year, which attracted quite a few Speed World Challenge drivers (some of which, for whatever reason, I managed to qualify in front of). I ran as high as 7th in the SMC race before getting punted *twice* on the last lap and ending up in 23rd. In the SM race I was in heaven, passing up to 3rd place during the first two laps. Then *BANG!* I lost it exiting T8a and ended up in the T9 outside wall. Not a fun experience. I was uninjured, but the car was toast.
The entire SMC race, from start to end. Things went pretty well until the safety car came out, bunching the grid back up. Following a slight bobble in T4 on the very last lap, Terry McCarthy got close enough to me in T7 to nail my rear end, sending me spinning. Bummer... - WMV (102MB) -
The entire SM race, from start to end. Granted, it's not very long because if my...em..."incident," but it's exciting to watch none the less! I had a couple of good passes before the crash at least... - WMV (20MB) -
My fastest lap of the day. This, a 1:56.4, is my PB at Infineon and not too horribly far off of the race lap record (.7 seconds, I think). The interesting thing is that I passed someone off line in T7 on this lap, meaning it probably shouldn't have been as fast as my other laps. Go figure! - WMV (6.5MB) -
The crash. I put a wheel off at the exit of the esses, and the rest is history. I really should have driven straight off of the track when I'd realized I messed up, but I was so elated at running in 3rd place that I ignored my instincts. I won't make that mistake again. - WMV (2.5MB) - QT (6.2MB) -
