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The race at Thunderhill Raceway Park was not a national SCCA Super Tour event, so we took the opportunity to work on developing the car and improving my ability to race in the Stohr WF1. Thunderhill as the name implies is situated in the picturesque hills north of Sacramento. This is a European style circuit, has great elevation changes, high-speed corners, and challenging brake zones. Racing at the track was a great opportunity for the team to work on our new brake package and delve in the AIM data acquisition system. As luck would have it, one of my new teammates Umberto is a computer engineer and very familiar with the AIM data system. It’s going to be a steep learning curve, however, I figure if I put in my work I’ll eventually become really familiar with operating the system and interpreting the data.

 We had some serious issues with the set up on the car at the previous race weekend at Willow Springs Raceway. Our two main objectives; dial in the set-up on the Stohr WF1 and regain the balance in the car, and start to learn the capabilities of the new AP Brake system. The AP system is adopted off the pre 2008 Formula 3 series cars in Europe, and is touted as superior to the stock system. All we needed to do was set up the brake pedal and work on finding the limits off the system (easier said than done!!).

The whole race – which unfortunately didn’t have a lot of excitement:

Short -Video- The white flag (last) lap, at this point in the weekend I feel its slowly coming all together. I  am starting to take my driving to the next level:

Note: we ran our P2 car in the P1 class. There were several reasons to run in P1, the primary reason was originally there were no P2 cars entered-thus no P2 competition. The team took some weight out of the Stohr, nonetheless, we were over weight and under powered to run in P1. We score two 4th place finishes, had a great time, and I improved my driving. I”ll take that!!