Thanks to many of you for your offers to help with our One Lap car this last weekend. I decided to put a Mopar PCM in the car right before the event. We had tested it previously on a different car and it seemed to have a little crisper throttle response so I thought it would be nice to have.
So once we got to the One Lap we discovered that the car would hit an early rev limit and shut the motor down for 3-4 seconds before it came back on. Thats when I had Dave Golder post for me while we were at the track at Indy Raceway Park on Saturday. Got a call from Dr. Roof within an hour offering his PCM which was a couple hours south of Indy in Louisville. We decided to send the car on the PA for the next event and try to nurse it along til we could get another PCM in it. Got a call from Lee in VA too.
Lee, Roof and Dave - many thanks for your offers of help.
Good news is that for now the PCM has seemed to right itself. The car is running strong without any issues now. We are still going to overnight our driver another PCM just in case it happens again.
Amazingly enough, we are in 2nd place overall after running 4 events with a car that could not run WOT some of the time.
Huge props to our driver Brian Smith who is doing an amazing job of driving for us. We have about 12 more events to run so we have a good shot at catching up enough points to get into first place by the end of the race this coming Saturday. Its a bit of an up hill climb but I think we have the car and the driver to do it.
Brian Smith is an excellent driver! check out the spike TV video on the Hennessey website. Brian Smith is driving the 800 TT in the car and driver supercar shootout. I watch it alot and it still amazes me at how he managed to drive that monster so well!
Anyway best of luck to you hope you guys bring one home!
Looks like Ron Adee is doing very well in the Ram 1500...in fact from the results page it looks like he may be leading in the TRUCK. I think the Corvette guys Danny Popp/Jerry onk are Red5's heros....if I correct, they autocross with him. They are also doing very well.
I got some info. Supposedly it's got a lot of carbon fiber, tube chassis, $20k sequential tranny, etc.. Weighs 3k lbs with driver. Not exactly a truck, but it looks like one! I assumed it was a tweaked up SRT truck, but it's much more than that.
Truck, ha! That thing is a as much a truck as a NASCAR truck is ;-) It's a monster. In 2000 it had a bunch of viper bits for suspension, I wonder if it still does...
Truck, ha! That thing is a as much a truck as a NASCAR truck is ;-) It's a monster. In 2000 it had a bunch of viper bits for suspension, I wonder if it still does...
Truck is a very relative term here. I remember seeing his last "truck". You wouldn't even know what it was unless someone told you.
Ron Adee is probably one of the top One Lap competitors every year. He is a 2-time winner, winning in both a GTS and Z06. Its long been his goal to win in his truck. He now has the truck to where its light, fast and has great aero, brakes, tires, etc. along with being totally dialed in for his driving style. There is no other person at this years One Lap more prepared to win than Ron. Thats why he is in first place.
We are down 75 pts to Ron and 50 pts to the Porsche right now. We think we can make up a lot of those points in the next few days while running at VIR and Roebling Road. For now I feel pretty good about being the underdog - at least for a few days.
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