LogisticsThe logistics on this trip was poor at best , those team members who traveled with the cars assembled and loaded generally between 1 and 4 pm Thursday and cars reached up on the track site in Grenville more than 24hrs after that first assembly at the POS port.
I got the impression at the initial meeting that the cars would be there port to track would be 12 hours at most.
Track ConditionsWhile at lot of work was done to the track and the movement of cars in Grenada was ok , the lighting at the track was very very poor an not enough to safely enable any nightly sessions on Saturday after some morning rains had the track damp to mid afternoon.
On Sunday am there was rain and around 5 pm some drizzles began, leading to a deluge at 6:30 pm and continuing to 7 - *pm effectively ending the "racing weekend".
The transition from the concrete surface to the paved area on the track was a crack and was enough to cause a break in traction for many cars.
Cars and RacingThere was a black evo 7.8.9 some where around there from Vincey that ran low 10's consistently , very impressive. also Barry B's old car now .......... was wild at times lifting the left front wheels more than a 1.5 to 2 feet on the start also ran low 10's
The fastest bike also ran low 10's .
There was a yellow 3 s MR 2 , whose driver had some monkey gland problems at time and was an unstable mid to low 11's eventually clearing away the Christmas tree, and starting system and nearly the starter as well
This is were i believe the inaccuracies in the times began in earnest. Although before this point there ware already significant delays due to this malfunctioning.
For our team the 120 was running straight which was a real concern for us as many theories surrounding the planning and eventual build of that mid to rear suspension and the systems of the car . While we were hurrying to finish the car for the event , we hurried and some other areas of the car we not 100% , these areas caused us some grief and we expect to rectify them in the near future . We got 2 runs with Wraith , the car fouled and shut down at the line in the first pass and in the second was close maybe a fender length in 1st and 2nd (wraith can confirm this ) but the car lost power in 3 rd and that was that. , an 11.4 run on sat
The lancer was struggling for traction with the street and strips and little traction in 2nd and 3rd consigned it to best of 13.1, when we put on the slicks the gear box could not handle it. That time however gave us trophy in that bracket for 2nd place.
The winners were taken form the Saturday times since it was discovered that there were great positive and negative variations on the et's of Sunday.
WHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYY!!!
