Luckily our collection of Road Race incidents
are not nearly as dramatic as the Rally ones can be.
2004
Though the car was quite slow in Rally Production Trim, the first
two ever road races were trouble free.
2005
A multi-year
streak of troublesome overheating, mechanical, and electrical issues started in 2005, though the lap times started coming
down nicely.
1. Road Race #1 2005: Race City
- after spinning off all
on my own and coming harmlessless to a rest, another car also came off the track an T_Boned me heavily on the drivers side.
2006
The final road race year for FPR1 finally (thanks to the new
engine) had us competitive with the leading Challenge Cup Cars (First-Gen RX7s).
No incidents or car damage this
year.
2007
The FPR2 chassis raced well on the road cource
and was quickly matching our best ever times.
2. Road Race #2 2007: Race City
-
with only two-weeks to the Edmonton Grand Prix event, this event was supposed to be a final shakedown. Unfortunately
leading Jed into corner three the car put two wheels off and slid back across the track right into Jed making a hard double
impact on the front and rear drivers side.
3. Road Race #3 2007: Race City
- with the wonderful new Red paint job, and after
a very succesfull Edmonton Grand Prix event, it was a bummer to be turfed out of the main GT event of the year at race city.
-
no picture, but minor body damage to (newly bondo-ed) drivers rear quarter was sustained. Wasn't bad enough to require
repair though.
2008
This was the debut year for FPR3. Car was matching lap-times from FPR2 right away which was great. Even
broke the 1:30 lap time for the last event of the year.
4.
Edmonton Grand Prix
- car was running good and fast in the warm-up and qualifying
and things were looking good for a top-three finish in class in the qualifying race
- pushing
a bit too hard in the last high-speed chicane before the start-finish straight, washed out, and clobbered the tire barrier!
- with much hammering, cursing, and lots of duct tape, was actually able to get the car back on the track
for the main event the next day
