Ok, as we get closer it's time to check out the array of machinery that do Pikes Peak, these images were from 2009, and a lot of these same people will be there. Dave Kern, in the Orange evo has been going for a while, his car has been heavily developed and is now faster and wilder than ever, Dave is a Colorado local, and does the hillclimbs there, he's also in our class, and we expect a pretty good whipin' off him on race day, if I said his evo was highly modified that would be like saying the Space Shuttle is highly powerful, so you get the idea. Dave has been great to communicate with, we have swapped ideas and setups lately, he's going to beat me anyways, so assisting him with suspension setup is not so bad.
Motorcycles run in groups in practice and on race day, it must make for some interestingly crowded corners and bumpin' going on.
Sidecars run also, and that is just insane, speak of insane, they also have a truck class, and Im not talking just pickup trucks, they have those too, Im talking about full blown Peterbuilts, and Kenworths, etc.
ATV, and quads are all the rage, can't say I blame them, it far cheaper to enter one of those.
Along with the Vintage array of entries, and pro-built cars like Monster Tajima's Suzuki thingy, sporting 900hp and 1200+ kilos, and a mass (ha ha, I made a joke) amount of downforce. Mass! Get it, but it's by volume... oh never mind.
Even looking in forward-sight (that's the opposite to hindsight, although my journo friends are probably going to email me and tell it isnt the right word, it's my blog, so jeff-isms are ok), I know there is a lot we couldve done already to the car to make that itty bitty bit better, but it comes down to funds, and there aint a lot of those, but we also need to bring the car back to full stock spec when it returns to Australia because of the classes we run here, and so it's no use modifying a lot, and then spending even more to un-modify it all.
With less than a month to go we have to ask; Are we Ready? Umm, no not really...
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