Tri-Cities review
Not the weekend we had hoped
for. We missed the opportunity to score
many points.
Friday testing went well, a freshened motor and new prop gave us a lot of speed
and lift (perhaps too much lift
). We got
in two good qualification runs, posted a speed and earned some points. The
third run Friday was cut short when our MSD ignition failed.
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J. Craig
Fletcher, driver of the UL-13 Celtic Racing race boat, grabs more air than
water during a testing run Friday on the Herald/Bob Brawdy |
Saturday things went downhill
rapidly. We went out on the course at 08:30am to improve our time and speed,
unfortunately coming down the front stretch on our first speed lap we lifted
high (not the tame 3-4 show above but 8-10). Somehow I managed to get the
boat back down safely but that was expensive air time. We incurred damage and
were not able to build RPM for the Heat racing Saturday. We eventually withdrew
and towed out of the pits Saturday evening to head back to the shop early
Sunday.
Gear box is being repaired right
now and hope to have it back Wednesday in time to put the engine back in the
boat and pull into the Stan Sayers pits on Thursday.