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Home at last!  Arrived late last night.  I'll post a race report in a day or two.  Need to catch up right now

Bristol, VA

Passing through AL,GA,TN and now in Bristol, VA.  Our stop for the night. A little over 500 miles to home.  Looking for a very late Wednesday or very early Thursday arrival.

Livingston, AL

Our evening stop is Livingston, AL  The antique day was a bust.  Tomorrow is another day.  Photos later

Antiques today

Now we switch over to our antique buying schedule.  Get up a little later, drive later into the night.  Looks like we will overnight in Alabama.

Beaumont, TX

Overnight in Beaumont,TX.
This morning we took a trip into Austin for a little antique shopping.  Found a nice mall but needed the truck for some larger items.  That was still at the track. Still needed to return the car and golf cart.
Back to to the track to finish packing and take down the tent.  Then we could return the golf cart and then to the parking lot to get the car.  We had to park the car in the lot and catch the shuttle to get to the race car. Took the car back and then return to the antique store before it closed.  
Left Austin around 6pm and arrived at the hotel around 11pm.
Tomorrow we plan on doing more antique shopping and probably return to NJ Thursday.
Weather wise it is going to be in the 80's tomorrow.

Post race

In the morning I changed the dog rings and adjusted the clutch.  Started to put a few things away, getting ready for our return trip.  Before I knew it, time to get in the car.  We sat in the pre-false grid for 1/2 hour.  They needed to land a  helicopter in the main grid.  It was going to be a 30 minute race.  I had a good start and maintained a good pace throughout the race.  Finished 3rd in class.
This evening we enjoyed the COTA party and was entertain by "The Edger Winter Band".
Tomorrow we'll head back to the track and finish packing.

Edger Winter Band

Saturday...Race day

Good news, the chance of rain has been lowered to 20%.  Our race isn't until 3pm, lots of time to take care of those items on the check list.
It's a beautiful track, great facility and has been perfect weather.  The only negative is so many newer cars in our group.  I just don't understand what is so historic about a group of 1999 Indy light cars.

Afternoon Race

The afternoon race didn't start until 6pm.  The car ran well, did drop lap times a little more.  Tomorrow I need to adjust the clutch and change to new dog rings.  The weather will be in question, 40% chance of rain.

Morning Qualifying

Morning session went well. Lap times are improving. Another session late today. 

Afternoon session

Afternoon session went better.  Learning more of the track and getting more comfortable.  See what tomorrow brings.

First session this morning

This is going to be a long learning curve. Many of the turns are blind and no good reference points. The session was blacked flagged twice, only got three laps in. See what happens this  afternoon. 

Ready for tomorrow

That's it, time to call it a day.

The COTA tower.  We went to the top today

Mid day

Perfect weather today. Starting to learn the lay of the land. This evening is a drivers meeting.

Wednesday, day off

Today is test day for some others but we skipped it.  The cost was almost as expensive as the race.  I'll get the setup done this morning and tour the paddock in the afternoon.

On an other note, it looks like I might be able to upload photos.

Setting up

We got moving around 2:30.  Almost done on the setup, we'll finish tomorrow.  The car has been through inspection and it's ready for Thursday.