Story I heard is Eon lost a A-arm bushing on his car and retired it then got into Frankie and I think he was trying to avoid a spec-boxster ran off course and tore the car up pretty good.
I guess we will have to wait on word from Eon & T on this matter.
G, Lane, yes and yes.....
First session, engine had a random "pop" misfire that I have experienced at CGB on occasion but never really nailed down.
Sometimes once a lap, sometimes, once every 5 laps, some sessions, never shows up at all so I never had it happen enough to even attempt a diagnosis.
Anyway, it occurred in the first session a couple of times a lap, but I didn't know the track anyway so I was just going to deal with it and take a look after the session, when, on lap 3-4, I came around T1, nailed the gas to climb the hill towards T2 and the engine died.
Tried 2-3 times to pop the clutch bump start on the way coasting up and down to no avail so I coasted outside after T2 where the natural line is to turn left at the T3 kink out of harm's way.
Don't know why I didn't try sooner but after 1-2 laps, I hit the starter and it started, popped once on the way back to the pits.
Couldn't find a thing but I guessed, since it started, it must have been fuel pickup.
We carried an extra 5 gallons in every session from then and never had a recurrence.
I guess the undulations showed the problem more than the flat CGB.
Eon's leaking shock deteriorated the epoxy on the ball joint and the cir-clip came dislodged on track, lost the parts so he was done.
We had to run 1 hour to Tulsa to a motorcycle shop Friday afternoon to get oil just to nurse the shock as it was.
When the ball joint went on Saturday, he was very close to the local dude Gary was describing earlier. Close enough that the guy in the pink pig 944 had come over to congratulate him on the speed, having just told us on Friday that it'd take several visits to master the track to "his level"....
On my personal account....he was right.... ;D, I never got the back section down and even though I was comfortable with the rest of the track, I was even screwing up there, thinking forward wondering what I was going to try through T4-6 next time around.
I watched a lot from the T9 stand, across to T4 and thought I had it figured out to make an improvement for Sunday but Eon took the first sprint and had an incident where he came over the crest of T4 trailing a Boxster that must have mis-stepped, causing him to dart wide right to avoid contact, which put him into a spin all the way down to the T6 corner station.
Corner worker said her stand had been hit 4 times that weekend.
Don't know what they have under those tires but the front and left of Frankie has a fair amount of damage.
Gonna try and get it up and running for the next GCRS race though.
Henry Carter did very well also, as did Phil, as a parallel, Mike had almost as dim a weekend as I did but we worked through several problems with his car and he did make all the sessions.
That's about it......, torn as to whether I'd bank enough on coming to grips with that circuit to go back or not.
Pretty tough haul too with a lot of 1 and 2 lane non-interstate roads.
TWS still my favorite by far.
T