We just finished a double race weekend at Laguna in the Norma. This was our first event running Norma since the June Sprints. We've been thinking about how best to compete at Indy given the horsepower loss imposed on us by the SCCA's rule's making committee, the infamous CRB. Jason and I decided to try something different in our car set-up this time.

Normally you can count on reasonable weather conditions at Laguna with temperatures between 65 and 80 degrees. Not this time, temperatures were over 100 degrees on the first two days making grip levels on the super hot black pavement way lower than usual. So even though our set-up seemed to work well, you couldn't tell it by the stopwatch.

Finally, on Sunday, the heat wave broke a little bit and temperatures came down about 10 degrees and some cloud cover kept the track from getting too hot. So we put on some better tires and went out to see just how well we could do in late morning qualifying. The car and grip levels were quite good and we broke our own track record by a few tenths getting down to 1:21.297. Then in the afternoon race, we ran flat out for 30 minutes and laid down 22 really good laps and crushed the field by lapping everyone at least once and many several times.

We are going to roll out of the trailer at Indy with this set up and see how it works there. Hopefully, it's really good there too. Our race is on Saturday, September 30, at 4:45 pm eastern time (so 1:45 pm west coast time). It will be broadcast live at SCCA.COM so follow along and see if we can repeat. Not sure if this is a jinx or not, but Sports Car magazine predicted us to do so but posted an incorrect picture...oh well.

http://www.sportscarmag-digital.com/sportscar/october_2017?pg=44#pg44

Brand new floor going on Norma.

Final preparation underway for Indy Runoffs.