Nuts day today. We usually have a test day with 3-4 sessions, then a day of practice with 2 official sessions, then a day to qualify. Instead, due to the double race weekend and special issues at Lime Rock, we have no test day and had three sessions, with the last a qualifier for tomorrow's race, starting at 12:45 and ending by about 5.

We started with 3 fairly different setups on the 3 cars and oddly enough, there wasn't a clear winner. All of us have tuned our own and they are all working. This made it a TON easier for the guys with no spring changes or scaling required at this point. And, we kept the cars out of the walls, which helps a lot too...

My qualifying session was going to be awesome - had a great lap 1 and was showing a low :58 on the dash. Then a Mazda in front of me slid wide in West Bend, tapped the wall, and headed back my direction across the track. I checked up and swerved, got back on it going down the hill, but the damage was done - 0.5 sec on that lap. My next one was blown when I overcooked T1, meaning my sticker advantage wasn't capitalized on. The balk lap was my fastest until late in the sesion when I went out with Seth and Nick in tow and powered on to click a :58.8 on my own on about 10 laps on the tires. The best thing I am finding about a double race weekend is I will get to qualify again Monday morning and get it right this time!

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