The right tool

Wow that made a huge difference. Not only was it a lot easier to put the pattern together, tracing it has been much easier too. I guess I have between a third and a half of a 95″ square marked. Pretty good going for me in a day. Normally I find I am far too tired and achy to get this far. I should easily get it finished and loaded tomorrow.

I mentioned a while ago about how important friends are, well they’ve been at it again. Friends are the people who tell you what you can do. Just when all you can see is what you can’t. It’s been great talking to people I haven’t heard from in years too. Keep up the good work, and know you efforts do make a difference.

Unsurprising facts

I am well aware that the right tools can make a job a lot easier. I had guessed that there would be a lot of right jobs for an A0 drawing board. I hadn’t realised how much easier it was going to make assembling patterns. OK it will never be easy t put together sheets of A4 to be 95″ square, but it is easier on the board. It’s nice to be able to see so much in one go, and great that I can hang it off the sides as it grows. In fact it’s gone so well I nearly have it done. Of course I will then need to trace it off, which will also take a while, and make good use of the board. I guess I should take a break and get the fabric sorted out.

Hello to some older friends. It’s great to know you are still out there doing well and having fun. It’s great catching up with you.

Bug jam day 2 – new best time

It was almost green, 0.0055 seconds red. See very nearly green, but it was a new best ET, 13.83. So that's us done for the weekend. Now we just have to see if we can get out of the track.

Bug jam day 2

The sky is clear, bu the track is empty. The bugs have jammed the pits so badly we can't run. The marshals can get us to the start but are still working on a way to get us back to the pit. They are thinking about us coming back down the emergency road then up the pairing lane to the pits. It would work, but it will be interesting.The number of people here makes me think we won't be getting out of here any time soon. In fact I suspect this will be a very late one. Still I am making good progress on hand sewing the binding on 'Herd Mentality'.

Bug jam day 2 – rain

Well the weather seems to have turned. The clouds are thick black and plentiful. We will just have to wait and see if it clears. Meanwhile I can queue. Th loos have taken a hammering and really aren't places you want to go. Even the Main event is nothing like this.

Bug jam day 2 – personal best

So after much debate, Tet settled on a 13.91 dial in. We weren't convinced. I was certain the next run would be quicker, it was and by more than I thought. We ran a 13.84, a new personal best. However we are still looking for the magic 100 miles per hour termial speed, this time we hit 99.05. So close and yet so far.

Bug jam day 2 – green light

Yay, finally a clean and tidy run. We dialed in 13.86 and ran 13.92. Not stellar but perfectly fine. I was just thrilled to see a green light. We do seem to be getting some good burnouts this weekend. There are some videos which may appear on the web oce we get home. I don't fancy uploading that from my phone.

Bug jam day 2 – morning after

So we are getting lot's of warnings about where not to drive. The no glass rule hasn't been observed and people are worried about their tyres. Maybe it isn't so bad not running slicks.Trogdor is off driving arround. It's cold here and one drive hasn't warmed him up much. Even sitting idling isn't making much difference. We've had him up on stands this morning, much to the amusement of the rest of our class. They have noticed this happens most meetings. Given we have rented th tarmac here we might as well use it. At home we have mud, not so good for jacking cars up.All being well we should be running about 10, with two more rounds of qualifying. Given all the VWs have to go first, we may be delayed by oil down. I'll let you know. The photo is taken from our pit. It's not the normal view, there really shouldn't be a stage in the middle of the pits. In between the racing yesterday I managed to hand finish the binding on Radience. I would have taken a picture last night at the hotel, but there was a very asleep driver all over the bed. You will just have to take my word for it when I say it is looking good.

Bug jam 4 – red light 2

Did I mention one was enough? Well this was a greener shade of red, but still quite definately red. We didn't break out though. We dialed in 13.85 (that had to be safe) then ran a 14.00. It could be worse, but I would like to see a green light.

Bug jam 3 – red light 1

And before we go any further can I suggest 1 is plenty. It was a good run though 13.89 and we thought the track was going to be slow. So another very conservative dial in proved too slow. The Fords have joined forces as ford jam.