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endurance car making sure everything was right. About 10pm, I put the car in the air and started going through everything for the following day. Fresh brakes and tires were installed, all bolts on the entire car were checked for torque and any adjustments made, uid levels were checked, etc. At about midnight we put the car cover on it and tried to get some sleep, but mostly ended up being able to only close our eyes until morning.
Saturday morning was driver meetings, setting up our pit spot, and getting ready for the 12pm green ag with a 40 car eld starting the race. We decided to run 2 hour driver stints, which would allow us to do a full 16 gallon fuel ll at the same time we changed drivers.
Mike Defenbau started us off with his local track expertise and put us into good position right off the bat. I believe he inched us into the top 10 for most of his stint before our pit stop.
How fast is a pit stop? There are some various rules of what can and cannot be done at certain aspects of a pit stop for safety, but we can dump 16 gallons of fuel in the car, change driver, drink system and driver cool shirt ice in about 90 seconds. If we were allowed a little faster fueling system, we could probably get that down a bit. During a stop, we have ve men over the wall in full re gear: one man on the fuel jug, one on the re extinguisher, one getting into the car as the 6th man gets out, and 2 helping
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