We had 3 practice sessions today, nothing official but the phantom stopwatches put Gavin Bennett with a low 1:27, not sure about Malcolm Crowe but I don't think he was faster, I did a couple of 1:26's following Eddie Lawson so we he should not be any faster/slower than I was.
Track was very green, race cars have been out all afternoon, lots of rubber would have been put down, tommorrow is Practice, then Qual and then Race 1.
Saturday is Practice and Trophy Race.
Hard to say what the outcome will be except it should be very tight across these 4.
Drongo is doing laps, (not max laps) but he says he is not that quick.
Drongoism's of the day
1) Fuel Filter on backwards
2) Has not scaled yet and will be way light
3) Had a rectal search by US Customs after (i) his plane was late, (ii) His bags flew on another flight, (iii) took 3 hours longer to tavel 310miles in a Camaro V8 compared to our Corolla.
Everyone is having fun, Gotta Go, Margies Diner is waiting.
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Re: Laguna 2011
Nothing like a good anal search first thing in the morning :o
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That's good news, keep us updated ..
Nothing like a good anal search first thing in the morning :o
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Good luck Sam and Mike.
Ant, I personnally prefer a dawn breaker. ;D :D ;)
Although lately that would be a bit hard :'(
Re: Laguna 2011
Qualifying FE Twin
1. Gavin Bennett England 1.25.401
2. Eddie Lawson Lake Havasu, AZ 1.26.355
3. Malcolm Crowe England 1.26.472
4. Sam Zavaglia Australia 1.26.756
5. Jay Lewis Long Beach, CA 1.28.580
6. Johnny West Wauconda, IL 1.29.847
7. Michael Wayne Australia 1.30.383
8. Luis Fernando Gularte Daly City, CA 1.37.988
9. Herach Haroutunians Valencia, CA 1.38.551
10. Frank Foley Corona, CA 1.51.872
11. Darryl Bertram League City, TX 1.56.062
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1. Eddie Lawson 1.26.182 10
2. Malcolm Crowe 1.26.262 3
3. Johnny West 1.27.880 2
4. Jay Lewis 1.29.089 3
5. Michael Wayne 1.29.462 5
6. Herach Haroutunians 1.37.160 12
7. Sam Zavaglia 1.28.063 2
8. Frank Foley 1.46.416 11
9. Gavin Bennett 1.25.074 3
10. Darryl Bertram 1.45.073 1
11. Luis Fernando Gularte 0 0
Re: Laguna 2011
After arriving we got massively held up through customs in LA. They interviewed me as they thought I was a drug dealer, so we had no time to prepare the night before by the time we got to the track. Thursday practice we were chasing engine troubles all day, which really sucked because I was having chassis issues so we haven't been able to dial it in. The track is very different to what it was in 2008 as in 2008 we were racing with the LeMans cars which laid down a load of rubber. On Friday morning we sorted the egnine issues and I just got on the track to work out what was going on. My laptimes are down by ~3secs on the front guys which isn't good, but it still puts me in the top 10 of a 35 kart field so I can't complain. I qualified 8th, went out in the first race and had an absolutely terrible start. We have rolling starts and the front guys really bunched up and because I'm running a really long 1st gear, when the green flag dropped I was out of the power band and lost 3-4 places. I made up the places I lost and was running in ~7th until a couple of guys DNF'd so I ended up 5th.
On a better note - We scored a Camaro for $75/day. Full of win.
The final race is on today, I'll shoot through some updates and more video when it's done.
I have some video's & pics I'll upload, I just have to edit them first.
Re: Laguna 2011
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Sam was running in second and on the last lap, had some sort of failure on the last corner. He did it rockstar style and pushed his kart over the line.
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Bennett 1:24's :o
How was the yamonda, no issue's ?
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I'm sure Sam will get on here and explain what happened to his.
Yeah Bennett is damn quick in that kart, it looks like the ANderson-DEA package is going to be a potent package this year.
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Re: Laguna 2011
Repair work, did you sabotage it already?!?!?!
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Repair work, did you sabotage it already?!?!?!
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Don't worry Mike. FAB Racing are on to it.
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God help you Mike.....
And all this while youse was eatin shrimp.........
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http://youtu.be/EobsaFECaSs
http://youtu.be/bKkE5xADeBA
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Re: Laguna 2011
So you've seen the facebook pics :) haha.