Infineon = Awesome
Got back yesterday from the Sears Pointless trip at Infineon. In a word, it was awesome. I don’t have videos or photos of the car in action (yet), but should have some soon. There are lots of stories to tell but I’m still too worn out to document them. Here’s a picture of the team as we went through tech in our Animal House costumes. The judges loved our theme and said that although several other teams had done it before, nobody had done it as well as we did and nobody had ever dressed in costume for it before, either.
(L-to-R) Judy as Mrs. Dean (Marion) Wormer; Paul as D-Day; yours truly as Bluto (popping out of the turret with sword in hand); Bill as (?), and Stevo as Stork. Stevo’s drum major baton is topped with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch; the theme for this car at its last race was a Holy Grail theme, so this was keeping some continuity.
We ran all day on Saturday and almost all day on Sunday. By the end of the day on Sunday, we’d picked up 7 black flags, all but two for non-contact driver errors. Stevo got one for contact when he was gently punted from behind (!) early on Sunday, and then our last black flag of the weekend was for minor contact, although the driver claimed to not have made any and we couldn’t find any new paint scratches. I got a solid body check to the entire driver’s side from the Krider Racing team late on Sunday but didn’t get flagged for it; I’m waiting to see video before I proudly claim it was all their fault. 
Although we had a couple of very minor mechanical issues during the weekend (right rear brake was sticking necessitating a caliper and pad change, small coolant issues, etc.), nothing major crept up and we spent most of the time out on the track. Other than the 1-hour penalty when Stevo and Paul combined for 3 black flags in 15 minutes mid-day on Sunday. Paul and Bill and their crew in Salt Lake City did a great job getting the car ready to race this weekend and they should be (and are hereby) soundly commended for their car prep. It was great to go a whole race without major failure. This is what we need to replicate!
The track was awesome and the racing was a lot of fun but extremely crazy toward the end of the day on Sunday. Way too many cars making way too many bad choices. Except for us. When it was all said and done, we ended up in 89th place.
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