Friday, July 17, 2009

Smoke gets in your eyes

Sauble Beach, lunch on the beach and plenty of sunshine. Third place in the heat race and satrting the 30 lap feature in 9th. Contact in the heat race with the right rear of the car made the rest of the night interesting. It seems that we broke the axle bearing. This took out the seal and leaked gear oil all over the rear brakes. Holy smokes would best describe the amount of smoke coming off the hot brake rotors. The car started to fill up with smoke on lap 3. We ran our cooling fans and helmet blower on high. This did little to keep my eyes from burning and watering. It looked like I watched a sad movie when I finally got out of the car. Even with no back brakes and tons of smoke, we drove it like we stole it. we ended up 5th place for the night. Flamboro is up next in the stretch of back to back races. Anyone have a tissue?

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