Oh well, another third.
What makes this one different from the other third place finishes is that we are a little bit closer to second, and alot better on lap times.
At the sake of saving face, I'm not going to go into detail about how I've managed to be sending us in the wrong direction over the past few weeks. Let's just say I was told one thing and instead of checking to see if it was correct, I just believed the individual(s) and continued on. That was until this weekend when we took an entire day to practice and found out we were wrong. WAY WRONG!
Having renewed enthusiasm we returned to the track on Sunday hoping for better gains. Although we still feel we are not quite in the league with the top two drivers, we are making progress. A reliable source informed me of a couple of different chassis tweeks that would show us some benefit. Out came the wrenches and after all was done we reduced our lap times by almost 7 tenths of a second! For the most part we are almost identical in chassis set-up and engine tuning to the other Margay driver in our class. With the exception of this driver having about 3 more years of experience on us, we should be up there relatively soon. That is if Sam polishes his driving skills a bit more. There's still a night and day difference between his lines and exit speeds verses the others. Then again we still have to realize that we're now in a class that easily runs 5-7 seconds faster per lap than what we were used to.
Since school is out we're going to make it a point to try and get to the track at least one if not two days a week to practice. The little way that we have to go is only going to happen with seat time. I know for a fact that if he could overcome one or two of his problem spots on the track, he would be amazed at how much quicker he would be, and that he then could become a little more of a worry to the others as well.
One last thing. With school being out you may be glad to know that starting with the next race, most if not all of the posts will be done mainly by Sam. I'm going to have him become more involved in this and paint the picture more in his words verses mine.
