OK, between Terry Howard and I we took quite a few pics, over a hundred.
I'm not gonna bore you with that many, but I think we'll still have bunches.

We'll start with a pic of Brad in the shop.

Friday we had to add some plastic balls to reduce the amount of fuel in the tank.
Gran Am allows 23.9 and we were a bit over. Now it's 23.6 and the Grand Am official put his seal on it to show it as AOK.

Here's another shot. This one shows the dry break system.

Porsche really knows how to take car if it's owners & mechanics.
They installed a nice I cream holder for us!

as you can see it functions quite well. This is Tim (working) and Alan (eating).

This is a picture of the team and car.
(L-R) Betim, Alan, Doug, Tim, Brad, & Chris.
Tim & Chris own Mind Over Motorsports.
Betim & Alan are mechanics.
Doug drives the rig and helps with odd jobs (what I did, too).
Brad is responsible for fuel and helps with stuff like tranny swaps, etc...

This is a great group of guys, Chris and Tim really know their stuff and don't dick around half-assed. They do it right and they do it without hesitation. All the guys were great to hang around with and they all are great mechanics.

Friday we did some pit stop practices, actually LOTS of them! We shaved over 15 seconds off during practice.

This is what our pits look like in practice.
Fuel hose on left, tire rack in middle and tool box on right.
We've got 4 bottles running air tools that are located under the tires and tool box.

This is Cody, Terry's son, in our Garage Saturday morning. You can't see just how excited he was, he hid it pretty well, but I know he was stoked.

This Cody, a couple hours later. He did the firebottle. Firebottle guy has to have a firesuit, so we found one for him. You can't see it but he doesn't have socks on, haha! About half way through the race I noticed that - oops!

This Brad, Cody and I after we loaded up the fueling rig. Our pump sucked (no pun intended). It was a hand crank pump and the seal and the handle had dried up and was throwing fuel all over Brad & I while filling it. You can see that both Brad & Cody were in firesuits, but since no one really likes me, I was ok in jeans - DOH! Actually, they had to wear the suits since they went over the wall during the race. My job during pitstops was to open the fuel valve and hold it open til the car was full.

Here we are during the race.

Getting ready to pit.

Pit 1 fuel only.

Debriefing after the first stop.

Stop 2 Driver, fuel & tires.
Here David Murray trades places with Blake Rosser.

In practice, we found it was easier to fuel if Brad climbed on the hood of the car, so here he is on the carbon fiber hood and fenders

another

and another

Burping the vent line

Blake filling me in on the spin he did in 1.

we aren't bored, I promise

look for the socks

clean and shiny

loading out on Sunday

This really is a nice car!
I think we had the fastest car in our class and two great drivers.

She's all pretty again, but wow, you should have seen her after the race.

I love the FABCARs.

THis is the 58 Red Bull car.

58 on pit out

59 backing out of his garage (Hurley Haywood driving)

more

another

and another

Cleaning the nose later in the day

The big man at Brumos

Hurley Haywood

Another shot of Hurley

FABCAR sans nose

We had a dyno setup in the garage area.
Here is a super touring Boxster doing a pull.

Our car on pit out.

Super Touring M coupe

Super Touring Z4

Cody with Ferrari

The Wagner/Martini Ferrari.
They ran into the 59 car during Friday's practice and damaged the right rear of their car. I couldn't find any damage on the 59 car.

The Bell Motorsports Moesler.

The pits before the race.

Parade lap

Saturday morning practice

58 in the pits

more pitstop practice

I told you our car was fast didn't I ?