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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: For those waiting breathlessly for news of my racing weekend.
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2024 18:06:27 -0700
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On 2024-11-02 17:25, Tom Elam wrote:
> On 9/21/2024 11:28 AM, Alan wrote:
>> On 2024-09-21 03:16, -hh wrote:
>>> On 9/17/24 8:36 AM, Tom Elam wrote:
>>>> On 9/16/2024 7:28 AM, -hh wrote:
>>>>> On 9/16/24 1:10 AM, Alan wrote:
>>>>>> On 2024-09-15 16:18, -hh wrote:
>>>>>>> On 9/15/24 1:28 AM, Alan wrote:
>>>>>>>> Well... ...it came to an abrupt end at about 1:25pm today,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Our race had only just started, and at turn 3 of lap 1, the car 
>>>>>>>> immediately ahead of me spun, and while I was able to get my 
>>>>>>>> speed off to the point where all we did was bump tires...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ...there was nothing I could do about the Formula Vee following 
>>>>>>>> me...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ...who hit might right rear tire hard enough to fold up and/or 
>>>>>>>> break every piece of the right year suspension...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ...and who ended up half on top of my car with his left front 
>>>>>>>> tire immediately beside my head.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I haven't seen the video from his car yet (we have to have video 
>>>>>>>> cameras now), nor have I heard from the steward of the meeting 
>>>>>>>> about his conversation with the Vee driver, but to my mind, this 
>>>>>>>> was just a racing incident.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Conditions were marginal--there had been rain for qualifying but 
>>>>>>>> it was drying out, but all three of the fast(ish) FF driver 
>>>>>>>> determined that we would all go out on the same tires, and the 
>>>>>>>> very last- minute choice was to run on slicks. 15 minutes before 
>>>>>>>> our race, it looked like the better call would be rain tires, 
>>>>>>>> but then the sun came out, and with other race groups before us 
>>>>>>>> dissipating the water on the track,  we call changed to dry tires.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And this change proved too much for Martin's traction in turn 3.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> With me running close behind him, he spun 1/4 of the way around, 
>>>>>>>> and there was just no way I could have tightened my line to go 
>>>>>>>> to his left. So I moved as much to the right as I dared (with a 
>>>>>>>> wall preventing a complete off-track avoidance, and hoped for 
>>>>>>>> the best. And I nearly pulled it off.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Unfortunately, the FV running behind me had opted for wet tires, 
>>>>>>>> and so had better grip in the mid-corner phase, and (despite not 
>>>>>>>> having seen the video or heard the report) I don't think there 
>>>>>>>> was any way he could have tightened his line enough to avoid me.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The end result was this:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> <https://drive.google.com/file/ 
>>>>>>>> d/1Y9CbWveqC2PS5R3yR0vahcfqMSQ7cV4d/ view? usp=share_link>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Bottom of the line: bad luck.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dang, that's an Ouchie.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nevertheless beats my weekend project, which started with 
>>>>>>> removing some landscaping plants to gain access to replace a 
>>>>>>> failing concrete skim coat.  Naturally, there's also some other 
>>>>>>> scope creep discoveries involved... 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Scope creep in one's house is often bad news. I hope it's not too 
>>>>>> bad.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Leaks on the irrigation system, which has also revealed that its 
>>>>> indoor winter water shutoff valve has a leak too.  Resulted in 
>>>>> ripping out the control valves too, to have easier wall access for 
>>>>> the concrete work; now debating how to change the design while 
>>>>> buying all new to put it back together, and what to do about the 
>>>>> inside valve.
>>>>>
>>>>> Been debating adding this from YoLink, and if that would do double- 
>>>>> duty or would be for belt-and-suspenders on the seasonal shutoff.
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://shop.yosmart.com/products/ys5001-dn15#owl1>
>>>>>
>>>>> Similarly, thinking about adding the capability of a rain detector 
>>>>> to save water too; pros/cons of adding a local rain sensor to the 
>>>>> controller, vs going to a "smart" device that checks the weather:
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://www.lowes.com/pd/Orbit-White-Wired-Rain-and-Freeze- 
>>>>> Sensor/1043275>
>>>>> vs
>>>>> <https://shop.yosmart.com/products/ys4102>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> To make matters worse, the same FV driver was involved in an 
>>>>>> incident with Dave McKay that was even worse; resulting in the 
>>>>>> rear and front suspension of Dave's Lola being absolutely destroyed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <https://drive.google.com/file/ 
>>>>>> d/1CX7HmLymYCg_q9obYjWTQdk6GGXyTCYG/ view? usp=share_link>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Apparently, as Dave was coming up to pass, the FV driver committed 
>>>>>> one of the cardinal sins:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Having received the blue flag that a faster car was coming up 
>>>>>> behind him, he moved of his line to "help" let the faster car by, 
>>>>>> but by doing so, he had to guess where Dave was intending to go; 
>>>>>> guessed wrong, putting Dave into the grass on driver's left, where 
>>>>>> he spun, and hit the wall driver's right at something like 65-75mph.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sadly, in addition to the incidents with me and Dave, this 
>>>>>> particular driver has at least once had his license pulled.
>>>
>>>
>>> While mistakes happen, so too does accountability.
>>
>> I certainly hope so.
>>
>> Not only is he (in my opinion) lying about his part in both incidents, 
>> it looks like he's playing fast and loose with the rules and--despite 
>> being a Canadian--racing on a US license.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Two days before we left for Paris last month a basement water sensor 
>>>> went off. A leak had developed at the water softener's plastic intake.
>>>
>>> We've gone for decades without having any modern sensor/alarms, but I 
>>> included two of them on the YoLink order which arrived yesterday.
>>>
>>>
>>>> I pulled it apart, cleaned it up, put it back on, but the leak 
>>>> persisted. With some spare copper parts I soldered in a bypass and 
>>>> ordered all new parts. If that leak had developed a few days later I 
>>>> hate to think what might have happened in the 2 weeks we were gone. 
>>>> The parts were delayed but finally arrived last week and fixed the 
>>>> issue.
>>>
>>> We had a similar luck some years ago.  A holidays trip to family 
>>> which got changed at the last minute from leaving in the evening 
>>> right after work to sleeping overnight and heading out in the morning 
>>> for the 4hr drive.  Washing machine's hot water hose failed 
>>> catastrophically at 4AM, so we caught it within an hour instead of 4 
>>> days later.
>>>
>>> Since then, the washing machine's water supply gets turned off 
>>> whenever we're not doing laundry.  Of course, with the irrigation 
>>> work being adjacent, pulling the washer for plumbing access revealed 
>>> that this shutoff valve has a slow seep to it (doesn't close off 
>>> 100%).  So I've picked up a replacement valve (they're not really 
>>> rebuildable) and located the torch ... just need to find the solder & 
>>> flux, as they weren't stored with the torch for some reason.
>> The joys of being a homeowner, huh?
>>
>> The laundry room in our condo has been torn apart to deal with some 
>> water leaks...
>>
>> Sigh.
> 
> Water, so necessary and so destructive.
> 
> Just to set the record straight, you are about done with racing.

Nope. Wrong again.

> Just 1 
> race entered, late this year, none finished,

Two races actually:

The British Columbia Historic Motor Races (which you knew about, because 
you made multiple replies to my post here about it).

And one SCCBC event, where I was taken out just after turn 3 of the 
first lap of the first race, so really no surprise that I didn't finish 
any race that weekend.

> dead last in club FF 
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