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Good to see you on the telly there Johnny, the comment about your pit crew loosing weight by pushing the car was funny! Shame the last thing I saw of the GTR was being towed to the pits, what happened? I assume you got it going again & made it to the finish tho', looked like a 12th place classification.
356Speedster said:
Good to see you on the telly there Johnny, the comment about your pit crew loosing weight by pushing the car was funny! Shame the last thing I saw of the GTR was being towed to the pits, what happened? I assume you got it going again & made it to the finish tho', looked like a 12th place classification.
Glad you enjoyed it! With 30 minutes to go we hit some oil and spun, the car stalled which was neither here nor there, but the starter had died. The truck came, bumped started the car, then they refused to disconnect the tow rope so we had to drive round behing the truck, being towed in with the car running. All totally ridiculous. The fiasco lost us about 16 minutes in total which blew the race for us. All rather annoying!Spent the next 20 minutes behing the safety car, due to a driver passing out on track due to the heat, the SC went in with 1 minute left.
Got it recorded so will have a team viewing tomorrow evening when we have finished in the workshop!
macgtech said:
Glad you enjoyed it! With 30 minutes to go we hit some oil and spun, the car stalled which was neither here nor there, but the starter had died. The truck came, bumped started the car, then they refused to disconnect the tow rope so we had to drive round behing the truck, being towed in with the car running. All totally ridiculous. The fiasco lost us about 16 minutes in total which blew the race for us. All rather annoying!
Spent the next 20 minutes behing the safety car, due to a driver passing out on track due to the heat, the SC went in with 1 minute left.
Got it recorded so will have a team viewing tomorrow evening when we have finished in the workshop!
Ah, I wondered if it was something like a stall. What a shame for something as stilly as a starter motor to ruin a race Spent the next 20 minutes behing the safety car, due to a driver passing out on track due to the heat, the SC went in with 1 minute left.
Got it recorded so will have a team viewing tomorrow evening when we have finished in the workshop!
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