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| Ed Womers take on Mosport,,,,,,,,,, Well after going back to the track it really brings back the pleasure of racing at a real world class race track. So we get to do another one in two weeks as well. I only got two laps in on Sat. morning because the car wouldn’t run at first unless it was just idling and I came back to the paddock and Watson helped me out and we removed the new fuel test port I installed. The engine would then run but not at full throttle so I made two slow laps and came in. I took the carb apart and Ray helped me out and there was dirt in a couple of places and we cleaned it out and put it back on and everything worked fine. In the afternoon session Ray, Gary and I were running together and we passed Dave Satterly and he was unable to keep up and they had a black flag and I noticed Steve Schiff had dirt all over his car and he told me latter that he had went off and when he went to start to go back out after the black flag his car wouldn’t start because two switches failed. Ray, Gary and I caught up to Dennis Andrade and when we passed him I guess we gave him enough info on the track and he was able to hang on and improved his lap times to within a second of the three of us. In the race Gary , me, Ray and Dennis drove away from Schiff and Satterly and had a great race with Ray and I almost getting away but Gary and Dennis did hang onto us. I think I led most of the laps and there was a full course caution for a 500 who hit the pit wall. We restarted with 3 laps to go and naturally no one would pass me and I was starting to realize I would get passed on the back straight on the last lap so since I was in the lead and only Ray seemed to be able to draft pass me during the race and Dennis and Gary could only get a long side of me I had to figure something out. I then figured out my only chance would be to slow them all down at the slow turn onto the back straight and turn it into a drag race which is what I did. It did work and I had maybe a 10 car lead out onto the straight and it took them all the way to turn 8 to even get close and Ray passed Gary and Dennis on the outside to get into second but I had track position and beat him to the finish line. Ray was pissing and moaning about me slowing them all down to give myself a chance up the back straight but I since I was leading the race and it is up to me to control the pace and just because I did it to my advantage is as the say goes, that’ s racing. Needless to say I had a great weekend and I hope they have the race again next year. |