Hard to believe, but it looks like I will actually post a video faster than Jason Stanley.
This is Sunday's race at Daytona:
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Jason Stanley on pole in the yellow car, Pete Yousko in the red qualified 2nd, I was 3rd, Bill Porter 4th, Shawn Taylor DNS.
The cliff notes:
2:07 Pete passes me going into the bus stop, I get the position right back drving through a dust cloud.
4:15 The restart after an S2000 goes into the wall after the bus stop.
6:10 Pete passes me again in the bus stop, this time it sticks.
7:02 An appearence by former SE 944-Spec director Mike Maduske in his Honduh Challenge car (yes, he is still around!
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10:31 Pete's car starts smoking badly, then goes back to running normally.
11:52 Pete gets pushed wide in turn 1 by a group of thunder roadsters, I get greedy and get nothing.
13:10 I pull out to pass Pete going into the bus stop, poor planning leads to me realizing too late that I will have to pass the roadster in front of him, too. An acute lack of talent and ability leads to a spin and Pete checking out on me.
15:38 A Spec E30 pulls in front of me and waves. I had been waiting to bump draft someone all weekend so I took it as a bump draft signal. I give him my best Top Gun "Affirmative" and go after him.
Turns out it was my buddy Oscar Edmonds- he had broken his regular car in qualifying and rented another one for the race so I didn't recognize him. He definitely did not want to bump draft in the rented car but I didn't know that
Fortunately, he realized what happened and was still laughing when he got out of his car afterward.
The rest of the race I chase down Oscar until the leading Spec Miata's come through on the last lap. I slowed to let them through before the bus stop and got a front row seat to a last corner pass for the win.
Daytona started off as a bucket list track for me, one that I just wanted to race to have done it. Now that I've raced there, though, I can't wait to get back!
