Racing season that is!

Just got back last night from the 2-day event that opens our club's season every May. On Saturday the weather was decent, but not great. It was sunny for sure, but the temp never got above 50 and the wind was in the 30mph range. Sunday however was beautiful. Temps got into the upper 60s, wind was breezy but never bothersome, and the sun was out pretty much the entire day. I even opted to leave the top down on my car for the 100+mile drive home.

As for the actual racing, well, as can be expected, I certainly could've done better. Of course I could've done worse too. Saturday's event was really quite frustrating for me and I think I ended up placing only 7th in a class of 10. Sunday was much better though with a placing for me up to 5th out of 11. The competition in my class this year looks to be the toughest ever with a relatively deep field and very close times between everyone. How close? Well, on Saturday the top two finishers were gapped by only 0.002 seconds! And on Sunday, there was only about 0.6 sec. gap between 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th place. Yes, only 6/10 to cover the gaps between five drivers. My co-driver in fact was in 6th place and only 0.07 behind me.

Oh yeah, my co-driver. Some time ago I wrote about my apprehensions about having a co-driver and seemed somewhat against it. My opinion has completely changed though. Not only are there the obvious benefits of having two people share the costs of the season, but the camaraderie, mutual coaching, and technical support make it a great decision for my racing effort this season. His name is John and I'm sure that if the rest of the season is at least as fun as this past weekend, you'll be reading quite a bit more about him.