If you have a budget for racing - racing will take your budget + 20%
If you allocate time for your racing - racing will take your time + 20%
If you......well you see where this is going.
So you have two options:
1. Take your budget and before you start, reduce it by 20% and you will end up at the original budget.
2. Time allocated will not change.
So the last 3 years, 2014, 2015 and 2016 were very interesting years. Some day I will go back and summarize them. For now I will try to get everyone caught up on 2017.
I took a lot of the car apart over the winter and barely got it together for a NHMS race on Memorial Day weekend. If not for the fact that my engine decided to lose all of its oil in the last race of the weekend, I would have considered it a minor success.
With 3 weeks in between NHMS and Lime Rock, I was luck to find a used engine from Dan Grace. Putting the engine in, and doing the things I wanted to do at a relaxed pace (like make a new seat and do all the normal maintenance) ended up being a thrash and I finished the car with no hours to spare. BTW - Thanks to my wife for being so patient with me...)
Lime Rock started out good, went very downhill Saturday morning and ended up on a high note Saturday afternoon.
Actually I finished 2nd - should have been standing to the right of Tyler Reynolds. I started last, made my way up to pass Chris Barry. He made a great move to put me back in 3rd in the uphill, and I squeaked by him by .01 at the line.
Now why did I start last? One was a mistake on my part, another was a mistake but really an issue with me not being familiar with the new (to me) engine. I dropped out of the qualifying race, even though I had the 4th fastest time.
So that is the quick summary - the car is still in the trailer, I will take it out soon, check over the condition and then decide on the next plan of action. I need to get my primary engine together and then I will have the spare destined for my otehr car. Hmmm there goes the rest of my summer....
