Thunderhill SCCA US Majors Tour Review

March 31 - April 2, we returned to Thunderhill for the SCCA Majors. Since the last race weekend, I had spent a lot of time studying data and video to focus on improving my driving. We also made some setup changes to the car to help me gain more confidence in some of the higher speed corners. Throughout the weekend we main steady progress. In Saturday's race, I was able to hang with the leaders, but not quite fast enough to challenge them. For Sunday's race, Doug Learned had made a couple of more changes to the car, and I was feeling confident with my pace. I started Sunday's race in 5th position overall, fourth in my class. At the start, the three lead FF cars (Chuck Horn, Skip Streets, Rick Payne) got around the polesitting F500 class car of Jeff Jorgenson. Unfortunately, I did not make it clear of the F500 car, and had to settle in behind Jeff through turn 1. While I spent the next few laps looking for a way around Jeff, the three FF leaders started to pull away. I was able to finally pass Jeff as he went wide in turn 1, and now I was chasing down the leaders. At this point, I had set fast lap of the race. I was able catch the lead pack, and had a front row seat to watch Chuck, Skip, and Rick battle for the lead. But this is where things turned bad. Rick had moved to the front, and Chuck and Skip were battling for second when they touched wheels exiting the high speed turn 1. They spin, and I had no where to go. Skip and Rick would continue on, with Skip eventually taking the win. So now it's time to regroup, see how quickly we can get back in a car to continue my quest towards the Runoffs at Indy.