Friday's practice session went a little bit smoother but we only had an hour to dial in the car for the track. Constantly playing with tire pressures, it was time to get into grid and qualify for the main event on Saturday. We laid down a couple solid runs and waited for the rest of the field to post up their numbers. We were excited that we had one of the highest exit speeds of the weekend. The exit speed is measured coming out of the horse shoe and is typically where the men get separated from the boys. By the time the rest of the field put up their best runs we were stuck in the 32nd qualifying spot. Not where we wanted to be but we are happy that we made it to Saturday. Some of our friends didn't even make the main event. We were running the #1 qualifier on Saturday which was Tanner Foust. Now, Tanner has the 800hp Nascar powered Scion. With almost double the horse power, it was going to be an extremely tough battle to overcome.
Saturday came and we were staged up against Tanner, the lights on the tree dropped and we were off with Tanner leading first. I stuck as close as I could on his door and felt that the follow run was pretty good. I put the blinders on and we re-staged on the line with me set to lead the 2 cars into the depths of Atlanta's drift course. I put up a solid battle but it seemed too easy for Tanner as the Scion's power was no match for the 350z. At the end of my lead run around the last turn the engine let go and sprayed oil all over the place. The Track, Tanners Car and the engine bay of the Z were covered. It took quite some time to clean up but we have to be happy we didn't loose to Tanner by a spin or an amateur maneuver.
In the meantime we got the car back to the shop and the Drift, Break, Re-build, Repeat process is in full swing. We will have the 350z up and ready for DMCC Round 1 in Montreal at the end of the month.
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