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Finally, weekend results and photos for the Lucky Dog Racing League 8 + 7hr endurance race at Portland International Raceway!
We finished 3rd in class both days and 9th and 8th overall! On Saturday we were multiple laps down on 1st place #35 Giant Motorsport's E36 BMW who had a great day before losing some power with 2hrs left in the race. We had quite a few more issues in the last couple stints so we weren't expecting to still be in the hunt, but we ended up finishing only 11 seconds behind 2nd place #74 PPPRacing's E30 BMW. After fighting a good portion of the day with #48 Mediocre Motoring's VW Jetta, they and others in our class had issues. Our Raspberry Pi dash/display falling down and breaking, rear brake pads going down to metal on metal, throttle return spring breaking, ignition coil working loose and pulling a coil wire off couldn't keep us off the podium!
On Sunday we tried to put on a better fight with less mechanical issues after taking care of some things the night before, but alas, it was another 3rd place! #8 McLarry Honda's Civic had a splendid race and we couldn't keep up earlier in the race. They must have had an issue at the end of the day as they slowed down a lot and lost their multiple lap lead on us and #35 Giant Motorsport again who we had been switching back and forth with throughout the day as their reduced power issues continued. We had a couple black flag incidents that kept us a lap behind Giant at the end of the day and less than two laps down on McLarry.
It was a great weekend overall and we were lucky to have a great group of drivers in Marc, Tony, Keith and Kyle joined by Tonya as crew and cook for the weekend. In addition to the two trophies, we won the Rebellion Timepieces Lucky Dog Racing League watches and won $100 towards new Hankook RS4 tires!
Also a huge thank you to The V Shop, Cathy and NW Safety for letting get out and play!
Enjoy some photos courtesy of those wizards Drew and Dakota.
Yes. We swapped to 2.5? diameter 200lb rear coil over springs(from stock diameter 225lbs) for this race and tried the no rear bar for this event, though. It was a bit pushy, not the end of the world. The shocks have too much compression damping all around as they?re for rallying, but we?re making do.What's the suspension setup on this car? Same as a few pages back?
They weren?t as round as we first thought but we did do one more race on them! Hammered on the wheels a bit to get them slightly more round, rebalanced the tires and put the flat spotted ones on the rear. Worked ok enough but we won?t bother again!That's a lot of rubber from braking. Were the tires still round? Good luck this weekend.
Hello Roy!
It was an adventure with a brake rotor hat failure early on in Friday's practice (luckily no other real damage occurred and after trying to locate a replacement we were luckily able to overnight a new part from Wilwood direct sent to Eric Mollerstuen an hour away!), then a clutch pressure plate failure about 45 minutes into our "practice session" amongst the first 6hr race of the weekend (Eric's boss had a clutch kit at home an hour away!), then while fixing that we found our downpipe was cracking off again near the manifold flange at 11pm Saturday night (and we had the help of another team in the pits to weld it back together enough to run!).
Sunday was much better!
We ran the 2.5hr race without issue and had RANDY POBST drive the car for a few laps. Sadly he's limited to 30 minutes in the car and he was doing the last half hour of the race, but there was a full course yellow situation for about half of it so he didn't get many laps.
We ran the 3.5hr race with almost no issues until one of the shifter arm bolts came loose from the transmission's arm on Marc and we pit to fix that.
The last race of the day was a 1hr sprint that I drove and we ended up winning B class after the car I had been chasing almost all of the session was bumped up to A class.
More on all that later, but that's the quick and dirty. Here's a video for viewing pleasure, too.
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Yessir! The car count this weekend was in the mid-70s, but not every car was still running on Sunday, or even participating in each event. This weekend's race was a "tournament" style with a 6hr and 2hr Saturday followed by the 2.5, 3.5 and 1hr on Sunday. MOST of the time Lucky Dog Racing League does longer races, 6-9hrs, sometimes 12 and 24 or other formats at some tracks that allow it. Every car is required to stop for a driver change and 5 minute(or 10 minute, depending on pit layout for the weekend) fuel stop every 2 hours. Our car uses about 14G/2hrs but we've run out of fuel costing us a win or podium position multiple times over the years. That used to be because the fuel cell we were running wasn't large enough, but most recently we can't place the blame on that as our fuel cell is now a 22G one.Fun video and nicely edited. I've never raced with such little traffic...that must be a blast to have just a few things to focus on at any given time.
Where will you find the extra 20-30hp you need?
How big is the cell? How long can it go on a tank...or do you even get to run it that long with whatever restrictions the organizers may put on driver stints? I'm only familiar with lemons, no limits last time I checked. I saw 3.5hr race and thought...that's one driver.