Flamboro Proves Frustrating

Arriving at Flamboro for the LOSC event took us 10 minutes longer than expected because the trailer peeled a tire some where near Brantford. In hindsight, we probably should have taken that as a sign of things to come for the #19 Trevellin Motorsports Dodge.

Kevin headed out for practice with two shiny new right sides and reported that the car was loose off. We made a change at each end to try and help that. We managed to get out for one more session before qualifying and came to the realization that the car was tight-loose. We backed up on the changes we made and went in another direction for qualifying. Kevin turned in a great qualifying lap of 17.06 that put us in 5th.

We started 6th with the inversion and on the 1st lap, in turn 4, we took a hit in the left front from the #5 (just a racing thing) while he and Kevin were trying to go high around a spinning car #27. The contact cut the left front down and bent the center link (think toe-in). We took another left front hit latter in the race and finished the center link off at that point, along with a tie rod sleeve. To add to the misery of the front end, the brakes went soft on Kevin at around lap 30. This brake issue was with us at Mosport but we found some stuff after that race and thought we had it cleared up. We apparently still have some work to do in that area. And if that wasn't enough, the left front we put on at the beginning came back to the pits with an audible air leak. Finished 13th.

We dumped some fuel into it, borrowed a left side hockey puck from the #11 of Weber (Thanks Cole!), changed the center link and left tie rod sleeve(did a hurry up toe setting), bled the front brakes and tidied up some loose parts and pieces (think duct tape and rivets).

The second fifty saw us starting in 13th and we had moved into 8th at one point but the brakes came back to haunt us and we took yet another hit in the front end, relegating us to 16th.

On a positive note, the body is in one piece for the most part, but Kevin and the rest of the team are a little disappointed with our performance (aside from qualifying). We'll get the brakes figured out for the Delaware race at the least and go have some fun there. Thanks!

A special shout out to Moes Mechanical (519-792-3734) for coming on board for some tires, and lets not forget L.A. Collision, Border City Stunts and Leitch Performance Engines for helping us get to the track.

UPDATE: Added some pictures courtesy of Brad!