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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JDMac34" data-source="post: 1505438" data-attributes="member: 29257">Now that was a fun weekend! We beat the snot out of my car but it handled it great. The course was on an old Air Force base and super fast. I was initially worried that I would struggle with slow acceleration with how fast the course was, but I was able to carry a lot more speed through the elements than expected. We ran the course one way on Saturday and ran it backward on Sunday.Saturday started off slow. We were both learning the course and seeing where we could and couldn't push the car. This was the first time I used my car as a 2-driver. It heated up much quicker than expected. I was surprised we didn't have any issues with the engine temp. The needle never moved farther than usual and (I think) my UltraGauge never showed above 223F. My brakes handled the heat great. Absolutely no issues with power steering fluid. My tires did really well. Because of the huge lateral g-load from the big sweepers and fast elements, I had to raise the pressure a lot more; from 34/31 psi to 39/36 psi. We made it through the morning session without a problem, but we found the temperature limit for the Falken 660s in the afternoon. Luckily I anticipated something getting hot so I brought my water sprayer. A quick spray of water between the last couple of runs and the tires were much more predictable.The morning session started with a 58 run but we eventually got down to consistent low 54s and 53.9s. The afternoon session seemed to be a curse to us and we were struggling to hit mid 54s, so we were very excited when I was finally able to break it with my 53.862 run. There were a lot of fast cars there, and this put us in the middle of the pack.[MEDIA=youtube]x00CM3dKscM[/MEDIA]Sunday's course was very similar but had a couple of changes to allow for running it backward. We kept the same settings as the day before and we just focused on driving. My main goal was to carry more speed through elements. This can be heard by how much I was on the rev-limiter!It started sprinkling towards the end of the morning session; luckily I had my best run of 51.777 right after it started. The afternoon session was bad because we were trying to push the car too hard and struggled to get anything better than a 53.[MEDIA=youtube]4NRYZxSDABY[/MEDIA]Unfortunately, we had to cut the afternoon session a couple of runs short. My co-driver was pulling out of grid and we heard a loud pop from somewhere in the front end. He said that he felt it in the steering wheel, so I called it a day for the car. It was already making a weird rubbing noise from the rear of the car. I didn't think that it was worth breaking the car worse and possibly crashing and ending on a much worse note. The car felt fine as I put it back on the trailer. I'm planning on doing a bolt check and inspecting the car this week so that it's ready to go for next weekend.</blockquote>