[flash]

hehehe - i'm thinking about starting a cross country support network

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[Anchorman]

Great story and experience - thanks for sharing.



I'm curious about how the banner at the top of the windshield changed at some point during the event.

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[pmcrespo]

Defintely a long tow indeed. Specially in a rented Trailblazer from the local airport that I got with 5,300 miles and returned with 13,000 3 weeks later! It had the 6-cyl and it was a little underpowered. I borrowed a nice super lightweight aluminum trailer that helped, but the inclines were taxing at best as we struggle to not abuse the tranny too much and avoided heavy loaded downshifts. Cruise control just could not be used. And NO! There is NOTHING flat between Philly and California! LOL...



I can't thank Flash enough for all the support. He was indeed my West Coast command and control center. He ensured I kept on track many times every day and also managed to have the last readily available adjustable fuel pressure regulator in the nation waiting for me at the hotel desk by the time I arrived. I don't know how many cases of wine am I in the hole with him now!... <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/ohmy.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />



If you notice... stickers are different throughout the pics... The closer I got to Sunday, the more stickers I had to put on. It was a requirement to have the Hankook banner to participate in the event as they were the main sponsor. Redline, Stoptech, GRM, and CarDomain where also "strongly recommended". So Hoosier stickers had to come off along with the RSB windshield banner. To make up for RSB coming off the windshield, I added the www.RSBARN.com graphics on the hood (closest to the windshield). That actually ended up loking nice. The green numbers were supposed to match with some blue and green graphics/stripes we had been designing but we never had time to order on time. Days before, I ordered the same "68" numbers in blue but they never made it to Cali for the event.



   

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[pmcrespo]

Guess what!? It looks like we may have taken 3rd in class at the UTCC!



Rob (Editor-in-Chief) at CarDomain.com posted a blog on the 68 representing!. Please see below.... post comments in the blog section...



http://blog.cardomain.com/blog/2008/06/p...rooki.html



   



.758 seconds from 1st place.... If we would have only shown up with a set of sticker R6s...... (and a healthy head gasket....).... <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/rolleyes.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> "I be baok...." <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/cool.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[Mark]

I guess you were supposed to be in the empty spot on the podium.







Congratulations

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[pmcrespo]

LOL.... I guess..... They never did call a 3rd place to the podium in the Independent JV award ceremony.... which was kind of weird but I just did not pay much attention to it as I thought 4th was as high as I would get given some of the preliminary time postings from early sessions. I do know they may have had some car categorized in the wrong class we may have resulted in some last minute scoring changes. There were aslo some chatter about some competitors running non-DOT slicks. Per the rules, DOTs were required....



Oh well....

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[pmcrespo]

My UTCC Crew now with their own CarDomain published blog!



http://blog.cardomain.com/blog/2008/06/car...i.html#comments



They were awesome.... good guys... Will, on the left, had black hair before we left Philly.... <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/laugh.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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