Racing and Charities

Last Friday we had our two charity cars set up at Walmart to raise awareness and take donations for the BC Children's Hospital and the MS Society through A&W's Cruisin' for a Cause day on Aug 25th. We made it an interactive fundraiser by letting everyone who made a donation sign the hood of our race car. It turned out to be a success as the hood filled up with signatures so did our donation box. 

Saturday was race day with the ASA Late Model Tour at Penticton Speedway, we used the weekend to tweak and tune on the setup in the race car because we weren't competing for points in that series. With nothing to lose we put an unknown setup in the car, unfortunately we were unable to get the car working how we wanted but stayed out of trouble and learned to race on the smallest track in our circuit. Finishing 12th wasn't a travesty but it certainly wasn't the run we had hoped for. 

Sunday we completely changed the setup in the race car and with minimal practice time we weren't able to adjust the setup like we wanted to. The car was turning the center of the corner awesome but would be continually loose on exit. After the heat race a misfire developed which turned out to be a puncture in the fuel regulator diaphragm. No one had a replacement so we had to come up with a solution with what we had available to us.

We ended up using a Nitrile glove inside the regulator to work with the torn diaphragm, it held up for all 100 laps and we brought the car home 9th with no damage to report.
We will be points racing next weekend with the Arca Series at Agassiz Speedway, the track is similar to Penticton Speedway so our setup should be close.

We ended up 10th overall for the weekend and didn't take any damage.