At competition

We're at competition right now and done with day 1.

It's been a rough ride so far, but we're weathering the storm.  We arrived to find contents in the trailer had shifted, and war wagon had rolled back and put a dent in our car.  The car rolled back, the chainguard hit a stand, and it hit hard enough to bend the chainguard (1/8" steel) and knock the drivetrain out of place.  First thing we did was remove the drivetrain and check it over.  It seems fine, but we'll see once we're allowed to run the engine.

Our bodywork also got hit.  The nose cone got hit pretty hard, and was cracked along the front.  We worked yesterday to patch the inside and fill the outside, so we'll have to repaint it today.  We'll see how that works out.

We've almost passed tech - the tech inspectors are making us replace a tube and add another one, because they think that our rear wing loads require a 1"x0.049" tube for some reason.  I don't agree, but I'm not about to argue with the rules committee about that right now.  We've cut out what we need, notched the new tubes, and things should be getting welded back in right now.

Not an easy day, but not too terrible either all things considered.