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24 Hours of Lemons, Oct. 20-21, 2007 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Ken Huey   
Friday, 26 October 2007
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24 Hours of Lemons, Oct. 20-21, 2007
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Sunday race
Conclusion

Sunday's race:

Sunday morning, we changed out the set of tires because even though the Falken Azenis had a 200 treadwear rating, the tires were old, hard and had lost their grip.  We replaced them with a set of fairly new street tires mounted on cookie cutter wheels that Art brought up last night.  The cookie cutters were the lightest wheels out of the sets we had, couple that with the full use of our repaired clutch and the car was running its best all weekend.

Our Sunday strategy was different than Saturday's.  Because all of our drivers had a chance to race Saturday, we wanted our drivers to stay out for at least an hour Sunday and even then, not come in unless there was a yellow flag or the driver was tired. 

 Sun race

 

Our highest position was 21st and moving up on Sunday afternoon with about 1 hour and 15 minutes left in the race when we got hit hard enough in the right front to break the control arm, tear off part of the strut mounting pieces, bend the tie rod and of course damage the right fender, wheel and tire.

It was a heroic crew effort lead by John Montano of EASY to change out the control arm and the entire front strut assembly.  We did not have a replacement tie rod and had to hammer the bent one back as straight as we could. 

We got the car out with about 10 minutes before the race ended as a matter of pride to finish the race under the checkered flag.

We finished 32nd overall out of 87 cars that could "start" (There were more cars registered Wink)

 


 
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