Qualifying and should have been our race day.

Another early morning, another day of rain. Lara drove awesome in the rain, very smooth and very fast. It dried up for qualifying which turned out to be like a race. Lara said people were passing and driving like it was race day. Unfortunately that meant it was tough to get a good, clean qualifying lap. We ended up 24^th, but I’m sure we’ll do well tomorrow.

After our sessions, we practiced our pit stops. At first, Lara and Byron were practicing our driver changes. After a couple pretty tough shin scraps, Joe took over as our stunt double.

After taking a couple seconds off our pit stop times, it was time to relax. Yes, this is Vesko enjoying a beer! 

Everyone is in good spirits tonight as we sit across the fire in the back yard of our bed and breakfast. There are peacocks… making peacock noises… (I don’t know what you call the noise that comes out of this bird) and watching the fire flies. Its been a great weekend so far and I think tomorrow will go well.

 

I will leave you with one piece of advice from Joe, Bolie and Josh which is based on experience from the drive home - Its bad luck on race weekend to pass an Amish cart.

 Ponder that one for a minute… Sweets dreams.