OOOOwww-D National Tour Race results ;-(

[Steve Verona <vrona@infinet.com>]

Well, the winning streak has come to an end at 7 races.  It happened at 
the National Tour Race in Connellsville, PA south of Pitts. on an airport 
runway and taxiway.  The race is a two day format with your best time 
from Saturday's course combined with your best from Sunday's course.  The 
track did not suit the 4kq very well as only a few of the turns allowed 
me to find the limits of the car.  I simply could not get up enough speed 
to excede the limits in the corners.  With this problem, I still did very 
well on Saturday with a time of 58.5 seconds to the class leader's 58.0. 
 I was encouraged by the fact that on my best run I screwed up a sweeping 
corner and lost a lot of time... at least a second... it was a critical 
part of the track.  So, had I driven better, I could have had the lead 
going into Sunday.  Then it all went to hell.  On my first run I don't 
know how, but I slightly dislocated my left shoulder that was injured 
this winter.  I was in a lot of pain and very distracted on my first of 3 
runs.  I tried to make my second run but I could not endure the pain as I 
started to see stars about half way through the course.  I slowed down 
before causing any injuries to anybody.  I got out of the car and almost 
passed out.  They laid me down and iced my shoulder.  I missed the last 
run and was very upset.  About 3 hours later the swelling went down along 
with the pain.

I am very dissapointed that this happened at a National level race.  The 
next National race will be July 4th weekend... hopefully I can stay 
together as well as the car does;-)

Anyway, there is always tomorrow.

Steve Verona