Monday, May 9, 2011

The big event!

Working all night in a parking lot in Brooklyn full of weeds and slugs. The occasional crack head stopped buy to see what was up and offer input on aerodynamics. 


Oli and Dan work on battery mount.

C Webb Gets dirty mounting safety harnesses.
Jay mounts the wire wind screen which was really great in the rain, NOT!
Tiny G at the wheel! At midnight in the ghetto lot.
 

Instrument cluster. Egg timer is our gas gauge.

After staying up all night and then doing 6.5 hrs of driving with the racer in tow we arrive at the most awesome race track I have ever seen!
The tunnel under the track leads to the arena.
 

Massive ;)
Many great women drivers in-spite of this sign.
After we fail tech inspection Pete saves our butts by welding up our roll cage.
Passed tech! Captain Silver takes a break.
Some of the high tech competition.

Putting latex house paint on the racer....

Several hours later the car is lookin tight!

Trying out BMW wheels with better race tires. Oooooo that would be nice.

The roster

The office. Note navigation system on wheel.

The safety kill switch we made in about ten minutes.



The hood is complete!

I love turtle necks. Especially when they are fire proof.


Our third driver, Dustin, celebrates after the race.
 
#47 after over 300 laps.
We went so fast that the paint came off! We came in 27th out of about 50 cars.
Our nemesis the Chivette.

Our major award!