"Coronado was very rough, an airport circuit, and I broke the strut to wing diagonal brace attachment points to the underside of the wing. A friend told me that I had made them out of ".02Light" material! It was a great race and I ran with one of the slower 332's for the whole distance in the qualifying race on Saturday, then finished second in class on Sunday. I had carefully set up the car to Bob's recommendations, that cured my Road America handling problems, and reworked my intake manifold to take care of the overheating that I experienced at Road America. Only damage at Coronado was a broken nose (Lola's) from hitting a traffic cone course marker, but I fixed that in the week between Coronado and Infineon.
At Infineon things went well on Friday and into the qualifying race on Saturday when one of the Super V's did a Bonsai move and hit me in the right rear wheel and knocked off the valve stem, had to retire because of a flat tire. Sunday morning I experienced a slipping clutch in the AM warm up, and Sunday afternoon I just couldn't get with it so just finished the race and brought the car home in one piece."
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