No, I'm not in jail, that's the name of the Lemons race I was at with  tiptoe this last weekend. It happens to take place in a town that's known for its prison.

Anyways, we did a lot of work to prepare. I spent about 26 hours working on Tip's racecar between weekends beforehand and on tech day, and helped the team get through inspection and ready to race. We had a few problems at the beginning, starting with a bad transmission mount, then a backfire that caught our air filter on fire. Once we got started we realized we were running a bit hot so we had to run and get a sprayer to water cool critical components on our pit stops. After that everything ran fairly smooth for a Lemons race. A little dodging and bumping, but nothing serious. With the faster teams in our category dropping out with problems we thought we had a chance at winning if we could outlast them, but alas it was not meant to be. Once the sun started going down we turned on the headlights and... the water temp gauge started inching up. Suffice to say, headlights should not cause that problem so after pulling off a couple times trying to solve it we packed it in early to avoid causing engine damage.

My theory was a short in the headlight circuit causing something else problems. We'll have to test and see if the engine was actually overheating or if it was just interfering with the gauges. As we are we should be fine for our next race in October since it'll be cooler and day racing only, but definitely something we want to look in to.

Despite leaving early it was a great time. I got to hang out with the team and we had some delicious buffalo burgers with aged cheddar for lunch on Saturday. One of the team members even sneaked a driver patch into my jacket which was really nice. All in all a good weekend and I look forward to the next race.