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This trailer is being pulled by the black Mazda2.  Its the same trailer he previously pulled behind his One Lap Miata.  I suspect all could fit in the Mazda2 but since he has it...  Saves the chore of having to take everything out of the race car every day.  A trailer becomes risky though since it also gives you another possible failure point over the course of 3500 road miles.  I've seen this trailer and it has genuine car ( high speed intended) wheel bearing not just the Chinese bearings of a HF trailer.  

Track just went cold for lunch, so we're walking it to try and find missed opportunities. 

I'm curious to hear about the drag strip strategy this year also, when I ran it the general thought from the top teams was that it wasn't worth the lack of sleep to try to stay and scrape out a few extra points in the bracket. But with how close it is at the top now I wonder if that thought process has changed?

In reply to John Welsh :

The bearings in my HF trailer are significantly larger than the bearings that were in the rear of my Golf.  Possibly even the front of the RX-7s, certainly larger than the outers.  By recollection they are roughly 54mm OD and 30mm ID.

Track is hot and Andy is headed out. We'll see what happens. 

Heartland Park morning results should surprise exactly no-one, but year after year I continue to astounded at the outirght pace Tomo and SuperK can generate. Tomo clear of Pobst (3rd) by almost 20 seconds in worse conditions. I'm also ignoring that Tomo is in a ZR1 and Pobst in a X3M

P10 so far. 

Just got the news: drag racing is canceled due to rain. We'll start our 518 mile transit now. 

Andy Hollis: "What are they doing?! Tires shouldn't be kept in cages! Tires should be free!"

In reply to Tom Suddard :

Maybe the cage is there to protect the tires from Andy.

Welcome to Kansas City!

Thanks to the awesomeness that is the GRM forum family we got to crawl around a helicopter. It was rad. 

Tom Suddard said:

Andy Hollis: "What are they doing?! Tires shouldn't be kept in cages! Tires should be free!"

 

The alternative is free-range tires and trust me, you do not want that.

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

No, no you don't.

In reply to hobiercr :

One of my favorite movies. Ever. 

We just made it to the hotel, officially finishing our last big transit of One Lap.

Here are a few photos from the drive:

I'm seeing too few gas station dinners.  I thought you guys were hard core.  Betcha the Sundae Cup guys are doing gas station dinners.

Stampie said:

I'm seeing too few gas station dinners.  I thought you guys were hard core.  Betcha the Sundae Cup guys are doing gas station dinners.

They're really more like "Gas Station Second Dinners".  Or was that "Elevensies"?

I'll bet the Tesla drivers are disappointed the drags got cancelled. That was probably an ace in the hole shot :)

So are we. We weren't going to beat many cars in the drags, but we should have beat the rest of our crew. 

In honor of Stampie... my Second Dinner tonight:

Andy couldn't get a garage with money today, so he booked one with time instead. We're the first ones at the track. 

Gate boops for the McClaren? 

Sundae Cup (and a few other cars) have arrived.