2011 TimeZone GP

I suffered some very peculiar radio issues once qualifying started. I made it all the way through two days of practice without a hiccup, but I am thankful I got things sorted out.

So after turning a total of 5 laps in the first two rounds of qualifing, I borrowed a radio and receiver and got on the track for round 3. The track had finally grooved into something more normal and no longer felt like we were skipping between old groove from the nats layout and and virgin carpet. My car was way too stiff and the radio was foreign but I still got a decent run in to get resorted back to the top heat.

I round 4 Frank Calandra came out running on top looking to smash his own TQ, but he must has tapped out and/or faded because with only a few small mistakes I found myself in the lead and eventually taking the TQ in the final round by about 1.5-2 secs over Frank, Brian Bodine and Dave Erlich.

Before the mains I made some final small adjustments to my car and was back to something very close to what I ran at the IIC. I lost the lead at times in both of the first to mains but mistakes by the other drivers allowed me to win the event in two.