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You Got The Flow Mats!
—Yes. It feels like we are back, and it's great! How Are You Urban?
Hey Urban, you ran 7,14, it wasn't as fast as expected. —No, we made a mistake. We didn't think the track was good enough, so we ran safe and had a tire shake. Lucky for us that Lindahl ran a red light.
Now you are up against Melanie. What are your thoughts about that? —I'm not that far behind. If I just can go through first gear without a shake, I will go fast, and give her a real match. This feels like one of my most important races ever. Not for the points, but for the glory!
Urban carries the true attitude of a real drag racer.
The rain has started to fall here at Hockenheim. And just minutes ago, the roof blew of Michael Gullqvist tent. This is not the kind of disturbance you need when your about to go out to compete. Round Two.
Mikael Lindahl ran a massive red light, and Urban is through to the next round.
Johan got away first, beating Gullqvist at the tree. But we hit a tire chake again, but now still driving on first gear. Michael ran a nice 6,12.
Mats did no mistakes, and beat Andy. Mats stopped the clock at 6,09!
Melanie is also through to the next round. She impresses with a 6,08.
Round One In Numbers.
Yesterdays Elimination round one turned out to be an exciting event. Burning cars, red light, crossing the centerline. More updates to come, we are now called out to round two. Here we go again, have to run! In, Out, And In And Out Again.
The best way to work on an engine out here in the pits, is to have it mounted in the car. The plan for the night was to rebuild engine number one. And when it was mounted back in again, and we started to work on it, we discovered that it was even more badly hurt than expected. The only thing to do was to put the Nova engine in again, for the second time.
Now the guys had allot more time and they worked, laughed, worked and laughed a little more.
At 02:30 everything was in place again, ready to go for tomorrow.
Here she is, back again. And this time we will be able to test start, heat her up and do some tuning.
But the big question is why we melted the engine in the first place. We still believe in the shutoff valve theory. But to rule out many other things Strumpan and Jonnie spent a couple of hours more this night to go through the fuel system. They didn't find anything. |
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