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Well
here is the result/writeup regarding the four who ventured from Agassiz
to Pacific Speedway. This "copy/paste" courtesy of Martin at Agassiz:
Here is a recap of our race in Seattle this weekend. I took my number
10 Hornet down along with John Madsen, Murray Jones, and Billy Bell. It
was quite the weekend. Poured rain most of Saturday, and learning to do
120 mph across sheets of standing water around blind corners took a bit
of time.
We learned a lot, including the fact that an 8 gallon fuel
cell is not suitable for a 16 hour enduro. We had to stop every hour for
fuel, and each stop was a mandatory 5 minutes for safety reasons. So
that cost us 2.5 laps every hour against teams that could run for 4
hours.
We also learned that a good defogger is key, to say the
least. The car came in every half hour in the rain with the driver
screaming "I can't f'ing see!" Not that they slowed down any. Great fun
doing a buck 20 looking through a patch of windshield the size of your
fist. Or no patch at all.
On Sunday morning we rigged up a warm air
intake from the exhaust manifold through the firewall and with two
little dime store fans we could see a little better. At least a soccer
ball size area after that. Sunday was also a lot dryer, other than when
it started to snow.....Down side was the exhaust tape and expanding foam
we used filled the car with fumes and Murray got very sick on Sunday
and couldn't finish his shift.
We also had tire issues. All the
other teams had semi slick race tires that really stuck, even in the
rain. Ours didn't hook up untill after a couple dry sessions on Sunday,
by which time we were well behind most of the remaining cars. We took
the usual Hornet special 65 series Falkens. Once they bedded in on a dry
track, the car was a rocket and we were a lot faster, and even after
the rain started again they were much better.
We finished 11th out
of the remaining 12 or 13 cars, of the 21 that started. The rocket of
the weekend was a VW golf from Bellingham. That car went around on rails
all weekend, right up until they rolled it late on Sunday. Second
untill the rollover, and then finishing first was a Prelude from Monroe
driven by the Hubbard family, who generally clean up at the Evergreen
Enduros. Second was a BMW from Maple Ridge and third was an MR2. There
were 4 Canadian teams, including a Chevette ice racer from Surrey I
think who blew their motor right away on Saturday.
That race was
intense, and start working on your cars, because there will be others
for sure. Its a great fit for a street stock, a mini stock, or a Hornet
with a really good cage.
Race was called half an hour early due to
heavy sleet and snow. I was in the car at the time and I could easily
follow the tracks of the car ahead of me in the snow. My last lap at
least two of us went sideways at the top of 4th gear on the front
straight and they called the race.
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