TARP Blog

Wow, what a day. I’m pretty tired and need to get some sleep rather than blogging, but I want to at least get down some thoughts that I can come back and fill in later this week.

We had a great day today, and yesterday too. The guys at Jalopnik liked our car enough to feature it in their first post about the North Dallas Hooptie race. I’ve got a bunch of photos that I need to edit, but here’s one good one from Jalopnik:

All the credit for the car decoration goes to Rachel. A couple of weeks ago I came into the house and asked her if she could come up with some good theme ideas, and boy did she ever. It looks tons better than I ever would have thought. Everybody who sees the car loves it!

We got out on the track for quite awhile today, and had some mishaps too. I’m going to just hit some bullet points to fill in details about later:

• First green lap, Integra lunches its engine right in front of me. His accessory belt goes flying while his car barfed oil all over the track, my windshield and car, and sent me spinning into the infield. Fortunately, nobody hurt and I didn’t even get black flagged.
• I spun it and got a black flag, Matt spun it and got two black flags, and Erik missed a shift, got rear-ended (very lightly) and just missed a black flag.  So we parked it early since 4 black flags in 1 day means you’re done for the weekend. We get to start clean on Sunday
• We did an alignment on the car in the garage for about an hour on Saturday. Not too hard to do, I should write it up as an Instructable. After that, it handled much better. Matt still spun it though

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