Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 09:42 PM CST Contributed by: JimA Views: 688
Kudos to BIR for putting on a great race weekend. A great track, with everything we could want for the weekend made for smiles all around. Really clean racing made up for more than the usual amount of mechanical failures.
A series of heat races established the grid for the sprint races. The solo, endurance race groups still had qualifying sessions. The endurance race had to be interrupted at about the halfway point to replow a corner to avoid a bubbler. With more than a foot of ice, but not much more, we couldn't trust the ice to support another hour of running through water, so a bypass was plowed and we were able to restart having only lost about 20-25 minutes of racing time.