Well, that's how she ended up. The other side of the car is a little worse. We ran the car from 3pm until 2 in the morning, when it was brought into the pits rendered dead from a broken radiator due to a front impact collision. We did all we could including having some guys drive back to Ann Arbor and come back in the morning with replacement VW radiators, but the system was shot. With rusted up broken coolant pipes, a fuel leak, bent tie rod and pig on the roof we reluctantly pulled the plug.
All in all, we completed 428 laps with a fastest lap of 32 seconds. At our best we in 24th place with something like 250 laps completed finishing 40th out of 54. For a car no one had ever driven, built in 2 months by three people, I'd say that's pretty fortunate. I felt it was a successful project of moving all in with an acceptance of a fearful potential failure at any moment. Everyone left with a feeling of accomplishment.
Curtis is working on some videos and I'll post a synopsis of the race in a couple days, but for now I can't think about cars, yet you can check out some photos on my flickr page. Enjoy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/prollig
2 comments:
Awesome guys, well done. Thanks for keeping us posted in Pasadena, hopefully this will inspire an attempt out here.
Hey, you guys have about 363 days to get the dents out, fix the radiator; the cooling lines and form a strategy to avoid the pig on the roof!
Great to see the photos and get the cell phone updates.
Pops
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