Evening update - Monday May 2 (?)

[James OLC]

Wow! What a great day!
We are on I-385 heading south through South Carolina on our way to Daytona Beach (which the GPS promises we will reach shortly after 2 AM). We just finished up at the BMW Performance Center where we had our third competition stop of the day.
The day started with more sock adjustments, lead by some insight from the Team at ridetech. We keep getting closer and closer and I think that we have something that we can stick with for the rest of the race. James took the first run late in the morning and payed down a solid if not spectacular run. Mary too the afternoon run and positively lit it up with a great run that was good for 20th overall! I was great to hear Mary exclaim that the OLC felt as good as it ever has and that she was able to push the car harder than she every had before. I must be doing something right on the setup (finally).
We made the decision between the first and second run to call Stacy and Kyle at DSE to see if they had any spare brake rotors that we could grab. Our Baer brakes are doing absolutely great but we have developed a bit of a pulsation in the front so we'd like to rotate the rotors and keep everything running smoothly. DSE didn't have any spare inventory that we could borrow so they pulled the rotors off one of their own cars and sent one of their guys to Carolina Motorsports Park to deliver the rotors! WOW!!! I can not thank them enough!
We had planned on swapping them out before leaving Kershaw but we were the last (running) car at the track and had only a slim chance of making the transit to BMW as it was. We debated doing the work, missing BMW and rejoining the race in Daytona but decided that we could live with what we had for a little while longer and did not want a DNF for any event if we could avoid it. That being said we made the decision to motor to BMW, hopefully make it in time, and keep on running with the pack.
It was a harrowing transit stage but we made it to the Performance Center with about a half hour to spare. We quickly unpacked, threw two gallons of gas in the car, and Mary headed out on to the track in the second to last run group of the day.
Mary is definitely back - as she demonstrated with a fantastic 19th place overall finish at the BMW Performance Center! The car is running great and the drivers are finally finding a rhythm... We have improved to 43rd place overall and are hoping for a safe transit to Daytona tonight.
Until tomorrow...
Cheers
James and Mary

[Chad-1stGen]

wooohooo

[CarlC]

That's awesome! You two have hit your groove and the bugs are worked out. Go get 'em, and get some sleep.

[BuddyP]

Awsome!!!