What a great weekend! I cannot emphasize how much work Tom and Summer did to pull off this great event. Thank you thank you thank you!
Congratulations to all of the new 200 mph club members. I wish everyone could have made it...:cheers
It was so nice to get to have fellowship with all of the wonderful people that are involved with this forum. I was so impressed with all of the ladies that kicked butt. Of course Monica and Summer, but also seeing all of the wives, daughters, and almost wives (Kelly, that almost drove) etc... Tim, I finally put the story with the faces, Stephanie Rocks! :thumbsup
What a great venue and to be able to share with all of these great people. We love you all!:biggrin
We did more runs in these two events than any other mile event we have been to. On Saturday, we did 11 runs, including two by our master tech, Kendall! All were well over 200 with Monica kicking out a 231.1 when my best at that point was a 227.xx.
Lots of dress wearing jokes were flying around... :bored ) I was actually very proud of my speed demon!
Believe it or not, I was trying to have all take it easy and make sure all was working well. I was still worried about my clutch being not broken in. After seeing Tom, Kelvin, and Monica bust over 230, I decided to play around with shift points and popped off a 233.8. Kendall, Royce and Ryan were egging me on to push it a little harder so I did. I started a little faster than the other runs and got good shifts, I actually spun the tires at the top end of third gear! :eek. I shifted into 6th and was a little mesmerized at how hard the car was still pulling. It was a very strong cross wind and the car still felt planted although you could feel the car dance a bit over each of the cement cracks going down the runway. I was kind of zoning on the tach needle swinging up when I looked up I saw the end flags and how fast they had come up it kind of startled me and I let out of the throttle as I was going through the traps.:ack I let the car settle and braked more like you have to at Goliad Texas to make the end turn. I knew this run was faster than before. I came around to find out I had a time slip with two times, one said 240 and the other 238.6. I think the first timing light and the second was from the second timing light with more accurate calculation from my let off. In any case it was really surreal to feel how fast this car is. :banana:banana
Sunday for the Mojave Mile, we had completely different conditions. It was warm from the start and the wind was from the front. Drat. To make things worse, the late entries were many and it took forever to get the event going. Within a short time after the start, we had bikes going off the end of the track and the record holder for the bikes went down at high speed, fortunately he was ok except for some sure to be painful road rash. :eek It shut down the event for a long time. When I finally got a shot at the mile I was too excited and bogged the start, spun second, and never really got on full boil. Still turned in 221.xx, about a mile short of the record held by the Griffin racing Viper. I really wanted one of us to take that bad boy down.:frown
Kelvin had a great run but his clutch was acting like mine at the Texas mile. He was pretty much done at that point. Tom had a shot at it but for some reason we just couldn't get his car to hit max power up high. (his car actually dynoed higher than mine.) I really wanted Tom to be the one because he worked so hard for this event. I think he needs that Heffner Cooltech uopgrade.:thumbsup
Well, there were so many cars and it was getting hotter by the minute and the head wind was getting stronger. :thumbsdow Monica really wanted to break 210 since she was so close at the last event, (209.8). She suited up and went out and ripped a 216.xx. I could see it in her eyes that she had incredible fun but left that 220 on the table. I knew we may only get one more shot at it so I dialed the car to high, gave her the shift pep talk, and was looking for a 223 or better so "she" would take down that viper and also hold the Mojave Mile speed record for cars!:thumbsup
When she got her chance she did not get good shifts and came up with a great 218.8 but a little short of what we were looking for. :willy I quickly lined up the car and suited up just to get a chance. Things started to move quicker as more people were leaving so it looked good for a run. I knew I only had one shot so I sat in the car and visualized my shift points and shifts. When I got to the start I bogged a bit, (still getting used to that new clutch), but recovered well to get through the first three gears as planned and into 4th solid. 4th to fifth was going to make or break this pass as any hesitation wold cost great distance and loss of boost. I nailed the shift and the car just seemed to take off. End result 226.4!:banana:banana:banana:cheers:cheers:cheers
I came around to people cheering, and thumbs up etc... It was really fun.
I knew it was not over because that darn Viper was being worked on by a full crew to wick it up for another run. ( They took away the top speed from Big Red and I on the last run of the meet last time. ) They had a good run but only managed a 223.xx. They went to work on that Viper like a NASCAR pit crew for one final assault but time was not on their side this time, the sun went down before they could get ready.
Which means, A FORD GT HOLDS THE MOJAVE STANDING MILE RECORD! :banana:banana:cheers:cheers:banana:banana I am very proud of that in case you can't tell.:biggrin
I of course have to once again say thank you to Kendall, Ryan, Torrie, Jason and Royce for all of the hard work to make our car perform at such an incredible level. :biggrin
Most of all Monica and I want to say how much we appreciate all of our friends here at the GT forum. XXOO
