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Wake Up Boys, This is a Fight. Skinny - We're holding our own, but the other guys aren't driving the Grocery Getters. No doubt about it, the practice at Pahrump (on the track) paid off big time but this is a fight. We left a session early to conserve our bio-physical resources and found out today the guys who stayed turned in a few faster laps with less traffic and more tuning, darn! Looking a first, accepting second as we left, ended up in third in our group, rats! But fifth over all after day one against all that monster hardware and those pro or wanna be pros (we'll to be honest, my wife thinks I'm the latter, believe me I'm not) is still pretty good. We're still second in the cars hanging a legal license plate (note to future OTC aspirants :-)). Here's an idea how close it is (from memory, the official results have not ben posted on the OTC website yet for some reason) Doug 5:25, Porsche 5:26, Us 5:28 (three laps). On to today, we're in "the enemy's" backyard (sorry for the melodrama, its all fun, RIGHT!?!?) "Fastest track in the West" is its official name. 140 down the front straight just to keep up? How deep into the first turn would you go? Well you better figure it out fast! Track temps rising, turbos burning, tires a gett'n squesshie (maybe that's not a word but it sure is a feeling). We figure the Canadians in the Porsche are out for blood and Doug and Wayne, in a nice way, drop by the remind us this is THEIR territory, and maybe to see what tires we are running (they know by now we only have one full set of slicks). Greg takes the warm up run out with the new Kumhos (save the big stuff). True to their word, Wayne and then Doug rip the lowest times of the Day thru the third session. Wayne at 1:28! We're hanging in third but this time we'll not leave early. Gotta hold of the Porsche while holding a 1.5 second lead, but to conserve tires (only one set of slicks) we go with the Kumhos to try to hold them off. Darned if he doesn't smoke a 1:32 on the second lap, we just could hang with him on our tire choice. Decision time, order more slicks or be happy to stomp on the street group,,,,,,,,, yea, order the tires to be waiting at the next roadside hotel stop. All in all we're pleased to be in the game (see thoughtful Greg), Honda/Acura is kicking butt in the Constructor's group, we've tuned for durability and think the next few days might see a few giants fall, but stay tuned as these guys are serious about hanging in there also...........
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