Not that there was a lot of water in the afternoon but we spent the entire Driver's Meeting in a constant drizzle. And basically it didn't stop for the rest of the afternoon session. The last heat pretty much was standing water for all my runs. Great day to run R tires.
This is the 3rd event I've been to on these tires and the 3rd time I ran in the rain for at least 1/2 my runs. Omen? I almost brought my RX8 with new street tires but didn't. My bad. Ken Marion had the good sense to borrow Gerry's M1 car and took 3rd place in R1. Impressive. My car is much too expensive to repair so I happily settled for DFL in R1 but hit nothing and carved 3 seconds off my time. I'll live with it. At least I didn't finish DFL overall like I was pretty sure I would in the last session. I left the AC running for all my runs as didn't want the windshield to steam up. At least I was comfortable.I was blown away how Les could pull off a 44 in standing water. My first run I left the Nannies on and a message appears in computer print: "Are you nuts? Slow down." So I turned it off and went faster. There was absolutely no grip for any road race tires in that 60F rain. I used my ABS to heat up the brakes which heated up the rims which heated up the air in the tires to 70F - which wiggled and giggled and tickled inside 'er. Genius. The turn around was no problem if you yelled "coming about" first.
I did see some great wet driving today. So you weenies who drove on dry pavement don't get too cocky just yet. We get 3 drops and this will probably be one of them.
Thanks to everyone who pulled this event off and sorry I didn't help clean up but cold rain makes me have to pee.
Especially thanks for the course workers who managed somehow to remember where to put downed cones with no remaining boxes to be seen. Loren treated all the cones like a Mirage and kicked a lot of butt driving where he thought they were. I doubt he even got a chance to walk the course. Yikes. Soraya likewise very quick dodging puddles.
Looking forward to FALL.
Special thanks, however, go to Jamie Sculerati (who wasn't even a registered driver, just came out to instruct in the late session for fun... and ended up being drafted to pick up lunch... and work timing... and then volunteered to help pack the trailer!), and Rowen Suarez (who stuck around to work the WET afternoon session, even though his car broke in the early session and he wasn't driving). Thanks!
You're all welcome! 
