Heartland Park Grand Prix Course

Heartland Park was another wet day.  I was pleased with my finishes but would have liked to do even better.  As usual we had a morning event and an afternoon event then we were supposed to do two Drag events but because of the rain they cancelled the Drags and we were able to get a head start on our 518 mile trip up to Putnam Park in southwest Indiana.  

IF IT'S HALLETT IT MUST BE WEDNESDAY

If it's Hallett it must be Wednesday. We kind of lose track of the days so we just look at the schedule to see where we are and what day it is;^) It was a rainy day at Hallett and very slippery, slid a good bit but never went off track and did pretty good. After the afternoon session we headed up to Kansas to Heartland Park Grand Prix Course. On the drive to Kansas we had tornado watches and warnings and some tremendous downpours of rain. Fortunately we never saw any tornados.

BARBER MOTORSPORTS PARK

Tuesday was at the famous Barber Motorsports Park.  But before I went out to the track I found a Tire store that was able to replace my tire pressure monitors and got my car back to normal.  Had a decent run at Barber,

when we completed the afternoon session at Barber we started on the longest transit of the week, 700  miles to Oklahoma where we would run at Hallett the next day.

CAROLINA MOTORSPORTS PARK

Monday we ran on  the Carolina Motorsports Park National Standard Track,  just did ok, not great, since I had pulled the fuse on the ABS/traction control system because the system was fighting me on track with the failed tire pressure monitor.  After finishing as Carolina we were off to Lanier Speedplex paved oval near Atlanta only 248 miles away.  Decent run there then off to Birmingham, Alabama 238 more miles west to run at Barber Motorsports Park on Tuesday.  Got in at a reasonable time and got some much needed sleep. 

NASHVILLE SUPERSPEEDWAY ROVAL

 After Wet Skid Pad Competition and an Autocross on the runways of Grissom Air Force Base in Peru Indiana we headed 366 miles south to the Nashville Superspeedway Roval.  I have not been here and on my reconnaissance lap I ran off into the grass in the infield.  Usually that would not be too big a deal, but they had installed a sidewalk for workers to walk out to the track area and did not tapper the ground next to it.  I hit that concrete edge and damaged two tires.  After changing to my spare tires one of the tire pressure monitors didn't work and when I went out on my qualifying lap the ABS system kept fighting me and slowed down my effort big time.  Unable to fix the tire pressure monitor I finally removed the fuse from the system to disable the ABS/traction control and things worked much better for my afternoon run.  Hopefully the rest of the week will be better.  Now we are off to Carolina Motorsports Park only 438 miles away. 

WET SKID PAD

 Good start to the week, did real well on the Wet Skid Pad Competition. Now we are off to Grissom Air Force Base 82 miles south.  After an autocross on the runways at Grissom we then we will drive 366 miles to the Nashville Super Speedway where we will run the  road course on Sunday.