New Engine Means New Problems

So I just posted how we patched up the body on Duffy, and BAM! Less than 10 minutes into our first race at Barber - WALL. What happened? Roger had a fresh D-series engine assembled for this year's races and we didn't know how it would do. Would it burn oil? make good power? And since this is an endurance race we can't just stop every 30 minutes to check things out, so he added some extra oil. A quart of extra oil. The extra oil, created extra pressure.

Anyway that pushed out the dipstick and spilled oil on the engine which ran along the suspension to cover the driver's front tire. Then things got slippery;

It was pretty minor and not much damage beyond tweaking the body panels a little. We zipped tied down the dipstick, and back on track we went. Latter in the day the electrical system went out, thanks to an oil bathed alternator. We bought a new alternator and battery and back to the track we went.

With our oil-related stops we lost a lot of time and finished 28th out of 68 cars. A least in the top half. Before sliding out of control, we were 3rd. We did however beat a diesel Chevette by 6 laps. Yeah. Hopefully, we've excised the demons and we can keep it on the track for our next race.

Some pics:

Arriving a Barber

Driver's meeting - nice facilities at Barber

In the parking lot

On Track

Pitstop action shot

Front straight

Passing on the inside - turn 5

Diving into the turn

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Video recap (We are @ 2:35)