Here is what has happened to Andrew today.We were fighting a loose car for the last 2 days and taking small steps to help the car. In qualifying the car was still just too loose and the best we could get was 4th on the grid. For our last 3 or 4 laps we tried a large change for the team and it did not work well so Andrew slowed down just a little bit but it was great to have the knowledge. After qualifying we made a rather large change and it worked well for the race. Great call by Eric Foss! In the race, Andrew was able to drive fairly easily and run behind his teamate Saini and was happy to ride along there when he got wide exiting turn 10 and hit the tires.The hit bent up the door and rear fender pretty good but the worse thing was it disabled the latch and his passenger door would open on every left hand turn. He did tag the exits of a couple of corners with the door to try to get it to close and stay closed but it would not.
Funny thing is he resumed turning good laptimes and reported back that the car was still driving great!
After 4 laps, the officials brought him into the hotpit and the Team MER folks taped the door closed and sent him back out.
About 1/2 lap later the trans broke 3rd gear and we were done.
Great time and met a lot of great people.
We should not have any real trouble getting the car ready for Atlanta but we will have to do more work than I hoped for! Should be able to post some pictures tomorrow or Monday.
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