Congrats to Claus, well done!

Well that was another interesting event -- I had a "scary" setup for Qualifying -- a setup I could never race and finish - so opt'd for a conservation race setup. First part of qual was pretty dry, no tire spray just rain drops, but as qual progressed I started to see more tire spray so I was pretty happy to get one good lap.

After helping out Kent with his launch control system, that left me a sitting duck as I was consumed by the wolves leaving me in 10th place - dangerous place to be.

Got out of the 1st chicane in a tight group ... heading into the 2nd chicane I see a red Ferrari coming in way to hot and OUT of control. Try to leave my turn in as late as possible hoping he/she would fly off into the sand trap before I had to turn in...well I ran out of "forgiveness" road and had to turn for the corner and took a huge hit to the driver side (knocked the beer out of my hand) that sent me flying into the sand trap -- fortunately didn't stall it.

Hobbled out of the sand trap to find myself in 12th place many seconds down. Car was pretty beat up from impact with Kent and now this new damage made it for a long long race. I did the best I could with a damaged car that was difficult to drive. I was able to get up to 7th maybe even 6th place then I pitted ... I thought about having the crew repair the car but I figured that would probably add a good 90 seconds to my pit stop ... so I elect to continue with a fuel only stop.

Somehow I came out in 5th with Mark and Jeff behind me but Brian ahead of me. I was able to close to Brian, but the rear start getting very unstable on the curbs, tire wear was still good (med/med) so not really sure what the problem was just guessing it was damage related. Made a mistake (curbing) right behind Brian and Mark got by, then I could see Jeff closing fast but not much I could do. Wasn't going to make it easy for Jeff, but I knew I would eventually have to give the spot up -- but then he did a 1/2 spin at the 2nd chicane and the pressure was off.

I hobbled the car home for 7th.

Definitely not the way I wanted this race to go, but it was still a blast to stick it out and do the best I could with my situation.

Congrats to all the finishers.