Day four, Quetereo to Morelia


Day four, Quertero to Morelia

Today we started a bit later than usual. We left the town square and had a relatively short transit to the first speed stage. The first stage was a short 8 kilometers. Perfect following a day like yesterday. It helped settle everyone's nerves.

When we started this morning, we were shown in the low eighties for starting position. As it turns out , there was a timing and scoring mistake and we were actually in the 35 starting position. The morning speed stages went well. We were pretty quick and the car performed well. Following the service break, we left for three steed stages. The first was very fast and we ran very well. The second was a bit longer, about 20 kilometers. It was the speed stage that over the years has resulted in the most crashes. It is a stage made for our Chrysler. Slightly downhill overall with very high speed straightaways going into sweeping turns. It was probably the best run of the week. About half way through, the gas pedal failed again. So we lost the results of a great run. The last run of the day was plagued by the gas pedal issue and our times were bad. No doubt we will correctly have a very bad starting position tomorrow. The big problem is that we will be starting among slower cars and we will find ourselves need ing to pass other cars. It will slow us down, and you never know about how other drivers will behave. Some people are funny ya know.

We redesigned the way the gas pedal is attached and we believe it should no longer be a problem. We thought it was just a loose set screw, so we reinstalled it and secured it well. For whatever reason, it loosened again. It is fixed now. It is great to see how other competitors offer parts, tools, just about anything to help other racers. There are a lot of great folks here.

Mike, Alan, Philip and I are all well and having fun. More tomorrow,

Kevin

Photos from yesterday are up at the photobucket site