With a season like the one we're having right now I can't say that I'm disappointed in the fact that this year is winding down on us. We have been plagued by problems for the past four weeks that are testing our patience and taxing our resources and frankly it's beginning to be darn near unbearable for all of us.
That chain skipping problem that we expected to lose by this weekend, well it ain't gone! And like many instances in the past it waits until the final to happen to us every time. One discovery that might shine a light on the subject is that in the half dozen or so times that we lost chains it's happened in the same area of the track. I have a sneaking suspicion that there's a depression at the edge of the track that we may be catching, and compound that with the suggestion from another individual that we could have too long of a chain length, this could be our problem.
With that said I'm still not placing all my chips on that number. We'll shorten the chain, but going into next week's event at Road America won't help us figure out everything. Hopefully we'll make it through each session but the real test will come on the 30th of August when we return to our home track. And if we finish every session we set out to do, then and only then, will I feel we've accomplished something.
