enduro 2 of the season

I think they usually have 6 enduros in a season with one a month.  They might take off in December.  So on this second enduro Dustin bailed on us with other plans and we recruited a guy from the PCA league I usually run in. 

Six teams showed up again.  Two were new and I hope the turn out doesn't dwindle anymore as six is the minimum number of teams we can race with. And a few of the new guys came equipped with gear. One in a Ferrari shirt had shiny red Ferrari shoes.

I qualified 2nd in the 5 lap qualifying session. Our kart for the race wasn't horrible but it was below average.  Last race we had no top end and this race we had no torque out of the turns. Maniacal, who usually competes for 2nd, passed me sometime during the 30+ minute stint but had issues and made an accidental pit.  So I handed it over to Howard in 2nd.  I think Maniacal came back and passed us during Howard's stint and he handed it over to Greg in 3rd.  Greg did an excellent job being his first time at the track and clicked off decent times each lap for a full stint.  I bet he is sore today.  Finally Tony got in.  Tony won our league this last year and he ain't slow. He proceeded to throw down some consistent times. The trouble was that Maniacal ahead of us was throwing down good consistant laps as well.  I was giving Tony all the info on the pit board including lap times and intervals.  Maniacal's driver apparently got FTD in an A Mod earlier in the day at an autocross (and another team member got PAX!).  Towards the end of the race though Tony was ever so slowly catching him for 2nd.  He managed to get the interval down to about 3 seconds and then it stayed that way for awhile.  It came down to within 5 minutes and I was yelling at Tony to pass the guy.  They clicked off similar lap times and the interval remained the same.  Then with about 5 laps to go they came up on traffic and Tony got around them both.  He ended up pulling away just a bit and crossed the line in 2nd.  It was this team's best finish.  

The 5 and 6th place teams started floundering towards the end and started getting lapped every 4 or 5 minutes.  Apparently those shiny red Ferrari shoes didn't give them the edge they needed.

My back is probably not as bad as last time but I did get a bruise on my left thigh that is worse than normal.  Usually my thigh is just real sore.  The seat belt gave me a small buise on my neck as well.

Stats...

Kevin	Fast lap - 24.946	Avg - 25.199
Howard	Fast lap - 25.279	Avg - 25.199
Greg	Fast lap - 25.179	Avg - 25.624
Tony	Fast lap - 24.832	Avg - 25.146