Miathubs!Įveryone knows Miatas have weak hubs, and most of the time it’s the front hubs that fail. Damage can be fixed, and I’ll replace the rear hubs every year now. That could have been a lot worse, and I really only care that Pat is safe and unhurt. Luckily there’s a big sand trap there and he slid safely to a halt. This took out the brake disc, the entire wheel, and spun Pat around 720 degrees. Pat was going 83 mph through T1 when the hub flange broke. To be more specific, the right rear wheel hub broke loose. Must have been some other team that was ready! Still we managed a decent pit stop of 3:22, and when Pat got in, we’d only lost two positions. But when I pitted, Pat didn’t have his helmet on, Sonny wasn’t prepared, and Alyssa was nowhere to be seen. I had planned to run the car out of gas in my stint, but I thought I saw Pat with his helmet on, indicating that they were ready for me to come in (my radio wasn’t connected). I’m still replaying some of those in my head. I had some good racing in this stint, real wheel-to-wheel action that was fun and intense. This put us nine places ahead of where we were yesterday at the same time, and things were looking really good when I got in the car.Ī few cars passed us in the pits, and so I was out in P27, but was feeling my oats and got us up to P21. Sonny banged out 50 fast laps, safe and consistent, and brought us up to 22nd position overall. There was a brief heart-attack moment as one of the cars had a mechanical, but everyone avoided the incident well. The Audi R8 in first was going slow and bunched everyone up, which made for a tight group as the green flag dropped. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her awake this early.Īlyssa has never started a race, and so we gave it to her. More StopTech converts? In any case, Sonny gaves us new team orders: coast slightly before braking zones and use less brake throughout the race. For braking power and feel, both Pat and Alyssa liked them more than the Porterfield R4E. I’ll get my money back, but the point is we didn’t have fresh brake pads, and must use the 3.5 hour old StopTech Sports that nobody is really trusting to go the distance. I politely explained that this is not the case, and that 94-97 are different than 2003-2005, at least in the USA. I later went back to them to figure out how this happened, and apparently the Hawk product info says that these brakes work on a 1994-2005 Miata. The brakes were another issue, Summit gave us the wrong parts.
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We vowed to keep an eye on the temperature and check the water level in the pits each time, and just trust it. But we just couldn’t figure out how all the radiator water dumped out.
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We started the car and pressure-tested the system. We checked everything in the cooling system, swapped an overflow bottle, blew out all the water we could find, etc. I got back to the RV and woke everyone up, telling them we need to get the brakes done, and why is the radiator water all over the floor? I greeted them with a creepy “Where’s my drugs, man?” and they chuckled and handed over the parts. It was dark when they drove in, and I was the only one in the parking lot. I was up before sunrise, waiting in the parking lot for the Summit guys to deliver my parts.