Day 1

It's now 3 AM, local time, and the team is split between those that will perform the sales presentation, and those that are correcting technical inspection and reliability issues. The sales presentation half just forced themselves to sleep, while the techs are still in the paddock wrenching on the car.

The day has been long. The team made several visits to the tech inspectors, wittling down the problems list to where it now sits at a single issue, where the judges request a closeout between the driver's head area and the engine intake. After this is corrected, the team can get their "3 stickers" that will allow them to compete in the dynamic events. As was discovered in Winnipeg, the engine is still hard to start. Dyno lab reliability once again doesn't translate to as-installed state.

Tomorrow, the team must get through tech, perform the sales prensentation, attend a design review and receive their cost report results. Like the previous years, tomorrow is the pivotal hectic day of events. A slip-up here will compromise their results for the dynamic events of Friday and Saturday. The team remains optimistic of a good result.



Breakfast is at 7 AM.