hit the ground running doing everything we could to make sure our car was ready as soon as possible, but the bills are starting to add up. In addition to more and more parts, we’re also coming to the realization of how much safety equipment each driver needs. Thankfully 920 Motorsports has been able to get us affordable parts, but we’re going to need even more help!
Once again the team hopped in the Larry’s truck and set out for North Carolina, but this time we had to pick up the trailer that came with our car we bought. I know what you’re thinking… ooo a trailer, SO exciting. Well smart guy it’s not so much the trailer, but what’s IN it that’s the fun part. Along for the ride we’ve got a spare 2.0L engine like the one currently in our car, as a well as an additional 2.6L engine we purchased.
We’ve spent weeks now going over what we all need to do to be race ready by April, and this weekend we got the tools out and started making it happen. We had some wiring issues when we first got the car back from North Carolina and upon further inspection we decided we would be tearing out all the wiring and redoing it entirely. We’re going to be running endurance races and any wire that wiggles itself loose could cost us precious time troubleshooting, so it all needs to be perfect.
This weekend a portion of the team attended the champ car race at Road America in Elkhart Lake, WI. This is the track closest to us and the one on which we hope to have our first race come April 21st, 2018. The weather was less than ideal, with downpours lasting most of the afternoon, but it made for some interesting racing. We talked with some of the established teams who gave us advice and things to consider when first starting out. From the information we learned we now have a better idea of what we’re looking for in a car and have begun the search.