Cars, Mostly ours

GHIT 0055: Capri Project and Post NASA HPDE Review

Details of our progress, mechanically and ability

The Capri Phoenix — Hopefully, it will rise again.

For our main topics, Alan, Vicki, and Bill go over where we are with the Capri resuscitation progress and Bill’s recent NASA HPDE event at Pitt Race. Additionally, we talk about a how Alan’s Yankee ingenuity has “helped” in mocking up the Capri build, his “free” source of “new to us” metal, wheel spacers.

We also have a detailed explanation in how to alleviate the potential pressure involved with having a racing hobby and any potential friction that may cause with your significant other.

And, yes, we may need an intervention to get the Capri to Thompson. Anyone free and/or bored want to meet in CT?

We are trying new software so please let us know what you think, etc, especially nice would be to leave a podcast review from wherever you subscribed. Thanks again.

GHIT 0055: Capri Project and Post NASA HPDE Review

GHIT 0054: NASA HPDE Day 1 in Review

NASA Great Lakes Pitt Race HPDE – Saturday

The Three Pedal Mafia was here! — With The Three Pedal Mafia car here, this is obviously, the place to be!

Bill reviews how his first day with NASA Great Lakes went at Pitt Race. It was hot, but the instruction in the car and in the classroom was excellent. Chris was able to be his instructor. The day ended with another few laps on the kart track. An excellent day one. Really looking forward to day 2.

Pit Bike — Bill even picked up a new to us pit bike

GHIT 0054: NASA HPDE Day 1 in Review

GHIT 0053: The Night Before NASA Pitt Race HPDE

Expectations and Goals

Bill is going solo this weekend but going to cover what he is expecting at the HPDE event with NASA Great Lakes at Pitt Race. Having raced here earlier this year, it may have helped, but we shall see. Hopefully the brakes will not catch on fire this time. Bill is driving a 2017 Toyota 86 TRD this weekend for the third time ever on a track. And hopefully home after Sunday, lol.

GHIT 0053: The Night Before NASA Pitt Race HPDE

GHIT 0050: Our Lucky Dog Race and Portland International Raceway – 2019

We came, we saw, we were conquered.

Alan, Jennifer, Vicki, and Bill with a few drop ins cover our race weekend with the Lucky Dog Series at Portland International Raceway. It starts with a review of practice Saturday morning, then our 7-hour endurance race Saturday and our work to get back out late Sunday.

We compare Lucky Dog to our home series the 24 Hours of Lemons. While similar, there are differences, pluses and minuses for each, so we compare the two in the continual pursuit of the perfect low budget amateur endurance car racing.

There were a ton of great teams there, most of which passed us on Saturday as we were towards the slower end of the field.

We recorded this shortly after we completed Sunday so there is a bit of echo since we were in the pit. However, we did manage to give out our team awards for the weekend.

Racing Results for those who are keeping track at home:

Saturday: We were in 37th place when our engine went away Saturday and ended up at 41st for the day. We did not get to participate in the 2 Saturday enduros due to the engine issue. Our fastest lap was 1:38.664 by our guest driver Randy Pobst, but we managed to 1:45.870 as our internal team best. (Randy was able to get to 48th fastest lap of the day and Alan’s time would have placed us as the second slowest car in the 60 car field that ran a lap Saturday )

Sunday: We ended up getting on track after a long day of engine swapping and rebuilding and finished 3 laps and ended up finishing around 48th out of the 64 cars this weekend and 48th fastest of the 48 cars that ran on Sunday.

Fastest lap of the race weekend was 1:29.932 by Blue Bayou for reference to the relative performance to the field.

We came, we saw, we were conquered.

GHIT 0050: Our Lucky Dog Race and Portland International Raceway – 2019

GHIT 0049: Lucky Dog Portland – Saturday Night Review

An interesting day

Randy Pobst with Jennifer and Vicki — Randy Pobst with Two New Friends

Here is how our day and night have gone. Its got a good, bad, and ugly, but what would you expect from us after all. Its live and unedited from the paddock, so sound quality may be less than stellar.

We had a bit of work to do.... — “We” pulled off our first engine swap at a race, barely.

Any questions, please let us know on our Instagram. We will try to cover them tomorrow or tomorrow night if we finish fixing the car.

Thanks again.

GHIT 0049: Lucky Dog Portland – Saturday Night Review