Third Place!
by brian @ 21:09:22 - [perma-link]Today was my first rallycross on the Hotbits suspension. To say it is
a huge improvement over the busted stock junk I was running before
would be the understatement of the year. I know it felt good at
Olympus, but that was on smooth dirt roads. This was the chance I've
had to compare it to the old stuff. Now the suspension takes the
bumps instead of the car. It works like its supposed to work. The
car pretty much goes where I expect it to go. Mostly. On the first run this afternoon, the car stopped running. It just
died. The course workers helped me push it out of the way so the
racing could continue, but I couldn't start it again. I figured I was
out of gas, but that wasn't quite right. After a couple of trips
across the field, once with a gas can, and another to get tools, Josh
and I found a blown fuse that was cutting power to the fuel pump. We
think one of the clipped wires under the hood shorted to the body and
blew the fuse. After installing a new fuse, the car fired up and I
got back into the grid with a DNF on the first pass. After that I
drove 3 clean runs just fast enough to take 3rd place in the M2 class. We have just under 2 weeks to get the car ready for Oregon Trail (May
16-18). There's still a lot to do!
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