After a 5 week hiatus from running Bumblestook, I finally got a chance to run her again yesterday at the Motorsports NorthEast / BMW CCA joint event at the Meadowlands. Since Hez and I are now officially registered for nationals, we needed to get as much seat time as we could. It was a blistering hot day but with 7 runs each on offer, it was well worth it.
Getting ready to run - MSNE Autocross - 7/12/2015 Photo Credit: Rexin Autosport
We clearly got a bit rusty in the downtime with both our first runs seriously off pace including Hez's super spectacular spin right by the start. Once we got our heads straight though our times dropped rapidly. I took the opportunity to have various drivers sit in with me during my runs to share the Bumblestook fun but eventually it was time to run solo and set some serious times. I ended up setting FTD (Fastest Time of Day) out of 102 drivers with Hez in 2nd less than 0.2 seconds behind me. Great event overall. Bumblestook is as fast and composed as ever and we could have extracted even more pace if it wasn't for the air time we got at a few critical spots. We did hit fuel starve towards our last runs, easily remedied by a quick 2 gallon fillup in grid.
Hez getting ready to run - 7/12/2015
Our Fastest Runs - 1st and 2nd top times overall MSNE Autocross - 7/12/2015
