Uneventful Weekend #3

Third weekend of my racing career was pretty uneventful unless you count rain as an event. We were at Summit Point on the old track sharing track time with both the go-karts and another sports car group. That meant our opportunity to get on track was pretty limited already. Throw in rain screwing up the schedule and you have a mess.
On Saturday I got out for one brief (like about 8 laps) practice session, in the wet. I saw lots of cars go around. Later in the day, just before the race there was a line of showers go through. They decided that they would put all of the cars – all classes – out together for one 20 lap race. After watching some more cars spin on the wet pavement I decided that discretion was the better part of valor, so I didn’t race. Of course – the rain stayed away for the entire race and the track got drier and drier so it was actually a pretty good and totally safe race after all – one which I saw from the scoring stand. Oh well – you make the best call you can make with the data you have at the time and then you live with it.
On Sunday I got a good practice session in early in the morning and was actually beginning to turn some decent lap times, but then the rains came again. So after sitting around from about 8:30 till 3:00 (I was determined I wasn’t going to miss another race), they called it for the day and sent us all packing.
All in all a pretty disappointing weekend. About the only good things were that I met Guy Frank, who is one of the instructors at SP for the security driving courses they give. Also a pretty good racer. He showed me the fast line around the track. He is driving one of AJ’s Banshees so he parks next to me and we share info. He will be driving when we’re back out in July so I plan to pick his brain as much as I can. I also got to do kind of a shakedown of the engine rebuild – it’s working great – and to learn my way around the main track so that it’s not a complete surprise to me when I come out in July.
Nothing else to tell. Hoping for a practice day sometime before the July session, but hard to tell if it will happen or not.