Let's just say we went, we raced, and we had our asses kicked. But we never gave up, and we finished.
Before the race we had to rebuild our transmission to incorporate '09 gear sets, and ended up swapping transmissions 3 times.
During the race, we had the following:
-- busted lower front right control arm due to an off-road excursion out of the bus stop
-- broken rear right wheel, rear bumper, and tie rod after a spin and touching-of-the-wall at the bus stop
-- 6 (yes I said SIX) swapped out axles. Common theme for most Porsche teams.
-- broken driver ID plug (PITA fiddly wiring stuff fixed in pit lane)
All in all, we finished 19th in class, 30th overall. We spent somewhere between 120 and 150 laps in the paddock fixing "stuff", but thankfully most of it was under full-course cautions.
But we finished, and raised money for the Children's Hospital. So all is good!
You can see a whack of pics at
http://pics.bulletracing.ca
Here are some highlights:
The biggest PITA was being gridded right in front of Patrick "Dr. McDreamy" Dempsey. The throng of people trying to get his autograph and/or photo was insane. We had to set up a human shield around our car as people were pushing up against it and bouncing stuff off of it (cameras, etc). One guy tried to partially climb up onto our car to get a better picture. People are annoying some times, you know?
