WE DID EVERYTHING RIGHT BUT IT WASNT ENOUGH After working hard all year to get the car to run legally as fast as our competition, and fixing the bugs that come with any development, the car was ready for the Runoffs. Because we had to start last in qualifying among 45 cars, we had difficulty finding open track to get a good clean lap, but we did manage to finish 2nd in a field of 24 FP cars. First was Ira in his Del Sol, and third was Moser in his Integra. There really were no other drivers that were competitive. Kevin went into turn one at the start in 3rd place but quickly passed Ira. He then passed Moser on the first lap and took the lead. From there he drove away from the field. Ira was taken out by the same idiot who took him out last year, and Moser had to come in when he had fuel delivery problems. Kevin ran at the front until the engine, that we had run over 50 race laps on since it was assembled, broke a rod with two turns to go for the win. Read all the details in the NEWS tab above. After having issues at the Mid Ohio Super Tour, we made changes to the car and went back to Mid Ohio for a test and tune event. The car ran even worse, so we regrouped and dove deep into the problem to find possible answers. After making some more modifications we took the car back to Mid Ohio for a regional race just to see if it would run. It not only ran well, but Kevin turned in his fastest lap ever on the club course. The very next weekend we took the car to a Majors race at Grattan, MI for our final qualifying event. The car continued to run well even though we were plagued with rain all weekend. We are now qualified and ready for our Runoffs race on Oct 5th at Road America in Wisconsin. Read all the details in the NEWS tab above. READY FOR RUNOFFS After having issues at the Mid Ohio Super Tour, we made changes to the car and went back to Mid Ohio for a test and tune event. The car ran even worse, so we regrouped and dove deep into the problem to find possible answers. After making some more modifications we took the car back to Mid Ohio for a regional race just to see if it would run. It not only ran well, but Kevin turned in his fastest lap ever on the club course. The very next weekend we took the car to a Majors race at Grattan, MI for our final qualifying event. The car continued to run well even though we were plagued with rain all weekend. We are now qualifyed and ready for our Runoffs race on Oct 5th at Road America in Wisconsin. Read all the details in the NEWS tab above. For our second event of the year we went to an SCCA Hoosier Super Tour race at our old favorite Mid Ohio hoping to have a great weekend with lots of our fans in attendance. Well, we had the fans, but the car was not happy. We skipped the Friday practice due to a family committment, then the car ran fine for the first quaifying session on Saturday morning. However, at race time it overheated, melted some spark plugs, and ran very poorly. After a few attempts at finding the problem, we loaded her up and went home to lick our wounds. We did later find the issue that has plagued us for at least two years and repaired the car. We have always said, as long as no one gets hurt, we have no body damage to repair, and we learn something, it was a good weekend. Read all the details in the NEWS tab above. For our first event of the year we went to an SCCA Majors race Pittrace to see how the car fared over Winter. At the Runoffs last October after we were torn down in the tech tent for fininshing 3rd, instead of taking all the parts home and assembling it there, we assembled it in the tech tent and drove it back to our paddock. Other than installing our new RaceKeeper camera, and the new Flagtronics module, we havent done a thing to it. It was a great weekend that did exactly what we wanted to do. We found some problems with the car on Saturday when the brakes went away completely, and the handling went off probably due to the old tires we had on the car. Kevin kept driving carefully and fell back to 4th in class but ended up finishing 2nd. Actually he was the only FP car to drive off the track as the others all had problems. We had pretty much got everything fixed for Sunday and the car ran great. He finished 1st with a pretty big gap back to Campbell who finished 2nd. We were also happy to work out a few bugs with the RaceKeeper camera system. We never got to test the FlagTronics since Pittrace was not set up for it yet Read all the details in the NEWS tab above. At the Runoffs the anouncer mentioned that this was Kevins 6th Runoffs podium finish. I got to thinking, that is pretty good! So I looked up the rest of the facts. Kevin raced the 1990 Acura integra at the Runoffs thirteen times, podiumed six times (two wins, two 2nds, two 3rds). He was called to impound (top six) ten times (podium + two 4ths and two 5ths). And the three times he did not make it to impound was when the car did not finish (a blown engine while in the lead, a blown engine in qual, then a flat tire while in 3rd, and a shorted injector). Wow, even I didnt think it was that good. Here is the first 6 laps of the Sunday Mid Ohio Hoosier Super Tour race in July with our new AEM CD-7L data embedded in the 360 degree video www.RuckRacing.com/MidOhioJune2020.webm And here is the out lap and first 3 laps of the 2020 Runoffs at Road America from our 360 degree camera with data imbedded via AEMdata. www.RuckRacing.com/Runoffs2020_1.webm And here is the 3rd qualifying session at the 2020 Runoffs at Road America where we were up on the track record when the car ran low on fuel www.RuckRacing.com/Runoffs2020_Qual3.webm We have decided to sell the 1954 Rolls-Royce Bentley R-Type. It is nearly perfect and deserves to be used more than we use it. To see all the details about this beautiful classic, go to www.RuckRacing.com/54Bentley.asp. We are very happy to thank our sponsors for their support. Although we have been approached by numerous companies we only accepted these products because we use and believe in them. Raxles half shafts, Ishihara-Johnson crank scrapers, Jeff at Special Projects Motorsports, and Hasport motor mounts have great products and have been great sponsors. We especially want to thank Cory at SloMotion for dyno ECU tuning, AEM Electronics, and Hoosier Race tires for their support without which we could be so successful. Click on the LINKS tab above to go any of these websites. VOTE REPUBLICAN! Yeah they are not all steller but even the worst republican is better than the best democrat.

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