Yeah we missed the title last year but this time we nailed it. We have t-shirts to prove it!
Now we have the "cheaters" cross to bare. The judges and some of the other teams think we are cheating some way, some how. Like we can call Jegs or Summit and order go fast parts for our Yamaha's. I say to the other teams, go get a SHO and race it, see how fast it can be. I think part of the problem is people know about the Taurus, it's just an average car, so how can it win races? But we all know the SHO is not an average Taurus, it's a little bit special.
Anyway we did it. The rules don't limit how many cars can be on a team so we got 4 SHO's to score as many points as possible. At least one SHO finished in the top ten in each of the 5 races this year. I think it was 1 top ten in Feb., 2 in April, 2 in June, 2 in Oct and 3 in Dec.
But man between 4 cars we broke everything! Transmissions, wheel studs, front wheel bearings, axles, rod shifters, engines, clutches, on and on. I was trying to calculate how many track miles our SHO has on it and it's somewhere around 10k. Now how many is that in regular street driving or dog years? A million?
We put 800 track miles this weekend. Had a right axle fail Sat. We were 10th 10 laps down at the end of Sat. Sun. we had contact with a Mercedes that made for a loose LF wheel bearing but managed 8th 27 laps down. Drove the car home 300 miles, about 50 miles to go 4th gear starts to make a horrible grinding noise, but it made it.
Great season of racing! Great teammates with a group of fast grandma's Tauruses!
