This was A Weekend. There were 350 cars or something at the event and like 11-12? total in TT5.
On Friday I went to go pick up my trailer and I found that some beautiful person decided they needed my spare trailer tire more than me, after which I wasted some time being unable to find a 5 on 5 trailer spare. I showed up to Chuckwalla at like 430pm and was turned away from the dyno even though they were supposed to cut it off at 600pm. I decided to run the Maxxis all weekend.
On Saturday I got absolutely screwed by the grid people. First timed session they let a Spec Miata out ahead of me ?? when he rolled up to the grid at the very last minute and parked at the very front. We had grid set from the previous practice that was ignored.
I caught him on my first flying lap, but still ran a 1:58:71 after being behind him from turn 10 to turn 13 (ie. up the hill to the end of the bowl). Would have been a 1:56 lap.
Waste of a session, a dude in a Boxter put down a 1:57:5 so I was in second. I was irritated at this point.
Second session they manage to send out another Spec Miata in front of me again when they parked in the wrong spot. I leave him a ten second gap and I still manage to catch him by the bowl on the first flying lap. Pretty pissed now.
Last session of the day I finally get a clean lap but it wasn't enough, a 1:57:8 so I end up second by .3s for Saturday.
This morning (Sunday) I woke up and was basically on a mission. I pretty much had one lap in the first session to make it work, fortunately the timing worked in my favor.
TT5 record coming into this weekend was a 1:58:7, I managed a 1:56:8 with a bunch of clear mistakes, but it was still good enough for the Sunday win and final record update of the weekend. I think the video shows that there is a 1:55 in the car with better driving.