AER Race Report, Day Two
The good news is that we all got to go home early.
The bad news is that Black Betty overheated just nineteen laps into what would prove to be a 380-lap race. Matt "Tinman" Johnston was behind the wheel in third place, having just overtaken the Jalopnik/Axis Of Oversteer E36 BMW, when the radiator blew at least two holes at once.
Our friend Travis Okulski and the rest of his team didn't enjoy the fruits of our failure for very long; they dropped out at lap 86 for clutch problems and managed only fourteen more laps after a six-hour repair job, none of which were particularly fast, before calling it a day. So the Jalopnik-v-R&T/TTAC showdown came down to four DNFs. This was not great news for the very professional and well-equipped video team that Matt Hardigree brought to the track; they were hoping for Ferrari vs. McLaren and got Marussia vs. Caterham instead.
Mark's catching a plane to his next thing. Tinman's taking Betty back to the shop to make sure we're ready for the next race. Until then, if you need me, I'll be in my cubicle, half-asleep, half-dreaming, just another inmate of the quotidian, facing the fabric-covered wall and thinking about what might have been.