Yesterday the San Francisco Region of SCCA held their annual member’s Free Test Day at the club-owned racetrack, Thunderhill Raceway. It’s a great way for the Club to ‘share’ its profits from the year with its members. A cold day for sure, it was 32F when I arrived, and it never got above 40F, but the winds were calm and the track was in good condition, so we got in some worthwhile testing time. We had six hours of rotating sessions, closed-wheel on the hour and open-wheel on the half hour. Maybe 60-70 cars were running and most of them seemed to keep it on the racing surface. Since my Crossle is all cleaned up and ready for sale, I brought out my B/S Datsun 710 for the day as I needed to test some recent repairs and updates. I got in four sessions and it’s running well, but I’m still dealing with some bad handling quirks at full chat, further improvements and testing are still required…
I met a couple of nice gents pitted next to me exercising their Lola F5000. I tried to sell myself off as a factory test driver available to take their car out for a session, but somehow they saw through my disguise.
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