I'm up first and I'm lined up against Marco in a Subaru 2.5RS. With the cold temps and me not launching properly, I watch Marco open up at least one car length on me before we reach the split where we go off on our own. Grrr! The same thing happens on the right side and I'm going for everything now. I come back and hear the crowd cheering as the announcer says that I've moved up into 2nd place. It's not over yet, so I'm lining up again and this time I'm paying a lot more attention to a correct launch. It looks like this time, I'm no more than 1/2 a car length behind Marco by the time we split - I'm happy about that. I go faster on my last left side run and I'm happy about that, but looking at the posted results, I have 2 mystery cones on my time that I didn't hear announced when I returned from my run. Grr, deja vu. The same thing happened to my Saturday morning left side run. My second right side run is wasted as we have too little fuel and I experience fuel starvation while on course.
We add some fuel and Jason gets to make his Sunday runs. He posts a good left side that puts him in the 44's, but there is a late cone call. There is no improvement on the right side, but he does improve the left side for his fastest left side of the weekend.
Things are moving much faster now and before we know it, Julie is up to make her runs. With some encouragement, she is now pushing harder and ends up moving into the last trophy spot in L1. Congratulations Julie.
The best compliment I heard all weekend was how Julie loved how the car handled the way Jason has built it. She wants what we have! We also know they will continue to stay on Bridgestone tires.
By the end of the event, Julie has finished in 6th, Jason has finished in 8th (on the result sheet, that would give him 8 88) and I beat Kyle to 2nd place by a very small margin of 0.005 seconds over two days of competition.
The tire wars in ST are going strong with the leader board made up of Toyo, Bridgestone, Kumho and Dunlop tires.
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