GHIT 0224: Our Race Review of Thompson 2021 - Part 1

Published: Aug. 12, 2021, 2:20 p.m.

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Our ladies team came to Thompson and even though the entire prep week blew up in our face, the weekend as a whole went fantastically.\\xa0 Vicki and Jen go over some of the highs and lows of the race on this episode.\\xa0 We are hopeful for a part 2 with Audra and Elizabeth, and perhaps even Alan, to go over their thoughts on the weekend.\\xa0 The El Jeffe race truck stumbled a bit at the beginning of the weekend, but we were able to work through the problem eventually with a bit of help from our friends in the paddock and we may have solved the intermittent electrical problems that have popped up over this entire season.\\xa0 More to follow next week.

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A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/ThompsonPart1\\xa0\\xa0

We hope you enjoy this episode!

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Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

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Highlights from this episode include:

1)\\xa0 We started with several of the prep debacles, for once they did not involve prepping the car, but unfortunately it involved just about everything else.\\xa0\\xa0

2)\\xa0 Since it was Audra\\u2019s first time racing wheel to wheel and Elizabeth\\u2019s first time in the truck, they thought it would be a good idea to get acclimated on the Friday practice.

3)\\xa0 Thankfully, this allowed us to start to work on the engine bogging issue.\\xa0 We go through the symptoms and what we tried to solve the issue.\\xa0 We may actually have found the true problem and we also ended up with a lot of spare parts.

4)\\xa0 Our generator issue continues and we aren\\u2019t sure if it is us or the rental RV\\u2019s.\\xa0 Do electrical problems only occur to teams that aren\'t electrically literate?\\xa0 Asking for a friend.

5)\\xa0 We try to cover how the SpiderStang team of Alan, Bennet, Quinn, and Elazar went, but left a lot of the details out for a future episode with them.

6)\\xa0 Thoughts on the track walk and the track in general.\\xa0 The data shows that both Vicki and Jennifer made great strides during the race, each setting personal bests by several seconds.\\xa0 Jennifer may have even conquered her issues on the long straights.\\xa0 We will confirm at our next event.

7)\\xa0 Any guesses on how many black flags for the ladies?

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