PermaLinkAnother good Skid Marks weekend...08:25:45 AM
Written By : Scott Good

Last weekend were the NASA Races at Putnam Park, a fast, fun track in Western Indiana. Looks good now...after Saturday's race, though, say goodbye to the hood My friend Brad (orange car in the photo) and I were there along with most of the usual suspects.

The short version of a long story is Brad and I ended up first and second in both races (me first, him second) although as of this writing there is some question about whether his Sunday race will be disqualified because of a pass under yellow which some claim to have seen.

As it turns out, I had this happen to me on Saturday's race back in April, when a pass I don't remember making while racing with a guy from another class--meaning it had nothing to add to the outcome of my race--cost me one of my two wins from that weekend.

The most exciting part of the weekend was about halfway through Saturday's race when, running down the front straight at 100+mph with Brad a few car-lengths back, my hood delaminated, tore itself loose and went flying about 40 feet into the air--over Brad. Fortunately, it both (a) ended up off track and (b) was fiberglass and so a good deal lighter than a metal one. Quite a surprise though, and all the more so they didn't black flag me.

So, for the year, that's four-for-four (minus one DQ). A good start!

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1. Jerry Carter05/20/2008 11:22:33 AM


Congrats, again! I see room on the side of that car for the Teamworks logo.




2. Scott Good05/22/2008 09:27:16 AM
Homepage: http://www.scottgood.com


Yeah, I'm thinking about it...




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