The nuts and bolts of it was it was a GREAT race, mid 90s, great breeze blowing, and no issues at all with the Kaveman Class 9. BajaHID just jumped on board to convert KC lights for Matt and Gary so they could see at night, the car was in great shape, and the crew was excited.
Started the race dicing it up with the top 3, and kept doing so for all five laps. We lead according to my point of view, 3 of those laps....Lap 2 and 3, and Lap 4. At the end of Lap 3, came in for pit.. and as we left, car 916 (who would later win) took over. We got them back that same lap by MM11, and then at the end of lap 4, with only one lap to go and in the lead, the inner tube blew out on the right rear. Matt was about 4 miles away from pit, and with 1.5 of those miles limited to 35MPH anyways, he limped it in to the pit, for a quick tire change. 916, got by, and made up about 4 minutes on us..... Matt chased him down, and as they came into the finish line, Matt was around 90 seconds behind 916! 2nd place it is.. and now the points chase gets serious, top 3 cars should all be within 4 pts of each other!!
Some pics, and video of our fuel stop:
**** This is a video of our pit.
