Hello Everyone,
I hope everyone is enjoying their last few days of the summer. I did this past weekend at Miller Motorsports park just outside of Salt Lake City Utah. This weekend we had the Maiden race of our two new 2010 Chevy Camaro SS’s. They preformed perfectly, Kirk is brilliant in building his race cars. We took our first official Green Flag at 5 pm on Saturday September 11th. We spent the weekend learning how the car prefered to be set-up and how the drivers would prefer it to be set up. Cars and drivers do not always seem to see eye to eye, so compromises always have to be created. Throughout the weekend we were working to create a setup for the car that would balance the overseer and understeer of the car’s handling. When developing a new car and driver for that matter there is always a period of learning to see what works and what doesn’t. Like each Driver each car is unique! This weekend we began trying to solve a push through the Apex of the corner (The car did not want to rotate (turn) in the middle of the corner (the apex)) After Qualifying we decided to take the set up one step farther. With that change we unfortunately created a set up that was extremely loose. Lucky with every accident there is a lesson learned, with that we figured out how to correct our push! Just over an hour into my stint in the car a caution flag was displayed for a car that had went off the track. With that we had a perfectly timed pit stop. Eric Curran took his turn in the car while the CKS Autosport team did a flawless pit stop in which they changed tires, fueled the car and did a Swaybar adjustment to help tune back the car to help the handling. Upon returning to the track Eric confirmed that the adjustment did in fact help address the problem. He continued to analyse the handling of the car while communicating with the team over the radio they came up with a consensus as to what further changes needed to be made. On the following yellow Eric returned for another quick adjustment, after which he started working his was up the field of cars. Just over two and a half hours after we took the green flag, the CKS Autosport Chevy Camaro crossed the finish line in 9th place over all, also we were the top finishing Camaro of the race. We as a team are ecstatic that the car prefomed so flawlessly. We came into this weekend with the agenda of learning about the car and having fun. All of the above was achieved and more. We look forward to taking to the track again with the Grand-AM Continental Tire challenge this January in Daytona.
