First Day of Qualifying

Well here is a little bit of information about the Novak race. There is 120 people here from all over the country. There is a total of 28 heats. The longest distance that someone came from is China. His name is Aaron he owns 5 businesses there and he is driving in sportsman with me. Really nice guy easy to talk to. It is nice to hear about the culture over there.

Well, its the first day of the Novak race. I am pitting in the basement, Dave Jacko is sitting next to me blogging about his racing. The basement is cool to pit in, its quiet and the the guys down here a really cool. There is a guy pitting behind me his name is Willie Thomas he came from Michigan to race here this weekend. We had some practice on Thursday all day it started out open practice then it switched to slot times. I was able to get a couple of good practice laps in. Car felt good but it still felt weird to me at least. My first qualifier came up and it was time to start going. The race before mine was up so I went to go and get my car tech. I passed inspection and got in line to go on the driver stand. It's my time to race I get on the driver stand and wait for my name to be called. My name was called and I was off I did good my lines were there but there are a couple of spots were I could cut the line a little better. I ended up finishing second with a 16/4:12. not my best but good enough for now. After marshaling the world gt cars I went back to my pit and started to think what was wrong. Talking to Willie Thomas he looked at my diffs and said I should rebuild them. So I took out my front one and he helped me rebuild it. Now it was as smooth as silk. I reinstalled the front Diff and then I started to worry about how it would effect my car. As a previous post I had Paul lemieux look at my car and he told me it was money and not to change it. I went up to Paul and asked him would changing/rebuild the diff effect my car. He said not really but I was still worried about it.

It was time for the second qualifier. Again I took my car to tech and it passed again no worries there. Time to race I got up on the driver stand and got focused. My name was called I started off and it felt really smooth. I was able to drive into the corners and out with no problems. I had to get used to my car again but it didn't take long before I was getting used to how the car feels. Dave Jako video taped my race and after the race. I watched the video I noticed my lines were good but there were a couple spots that I could get better at. But I did finish second. But all in all it was a great day of racing.