YES! Auto Club Speedway June 16 - 19, have a look if you have the time, wish i could have made it!
http://students.sae.org/competitions/formulaseries/west/spectators.htm
Here have a look at this for more information, we'll be the only British team there so we should be easy to spot. The autocross even is Friday afternoon and the endurance event is Saturday, spectating wise they should be the most entertaining.
Shouldn't be to hard to find i wouldn't think. I doubt theres many with union jack flags there.
Yea man its still on as far as i know. The car and team are out there, but i haven't actually spoken to any of them, so if you go down there you'll know more than i do!
Cant wait to see the pics jum
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Well, i'll tell ya, the Leeds team was challenging all the top cars, even the race favorites, but then something happened. Talking to the boys, i was informed that the various members of the team wer responsible for different aspects of the car. Turns out the part of the car u touched Tom was the only system that failed. Unfortunately the car sputtered during the last few laps. I'll giv u the full report when i get home as i am out of the country atm. Im sure ur buddies will ring ur neck when they get home. Lucky for u i tried to soften the disappointing situation with a fresh cold supply of Tecate beer after the race. Hahaha.
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The part you touched. So you should know.
Here is a pic with the boys. Like I said, a great crew. The hats they are wearing are Rockstar hats I gave them. I also brought them cans of the energy drink to give them a little pick me up.
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They let me sit in the car. Perhaps had I driven the thing they may have finished higher up the order, eh.
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The part you touched. So you should know.
I just spoke to one of the lads, apparently the gear shifter broke. That was my departments responsibility but not a component i actually had an active role in. Still it was never going to go perfectly and it sounds as though the guys coped well
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Yes indeed, I'm starting to wonder what you had an active role in actually. Talking to the crew, its sounded like you are a bit lazy. When I asked them about you they looked at eachother, with a bit of hesitation, I told them not to worry, I don't personally know Tom, he's just a guy I school on a bike forum. Ah, well, then, this put them at ease a bit, then they admitted, "oh Tom, yeah, he's the bloke that likes to sleep in."
Here are the boys drinking Rockstar energy drinks. Ah but that wasn't the only thing, seeing their frustration at a DNF in the Skid pad portion of the competition, I went out and got them all Tecate beer. It was a hot day, but the beer was frost cold as hell. That's when their tongues loosed up a bit a gave me more dirt about you Tom.
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Here is a local entry. It one of the universities I attended actually.
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