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go and saw I was out of gas. I radioed in at one point to my wife, “Wow, I have never put my car into sixth gear on a race track before!” I was trying to save gas to make the finish line! The last sprint race was the best of the weekend. David, my fellow Maverick in my class, started beside me and I felt it was going to be a hard race to the finish. We rolled tighter and tighter together right to the heart stopping drop of the green flag, raced into turn one side-by-side and on into corner two when the car in front of me ran though the dirt of the apex. It made a thick cloud that made me think of Ricky Bobby driving though the smoke! Now quickly running down to the fast right hander of corner three before the long straight, I squeezed over left onto the fast line ahead of David and behind a fast GTC Cup car. As we all screamed down the “hang man” straight, the adrenalin is off the chart now. Then the Cup cars in front of me (and not David) started to fight at 135 mph and started checking up early! As I started my braking early with them, David rolled by on my right into the tight apex now blocked on the left by the Cup cars and me. I remember thinking, “Man, I wish I would have stayed on the right!” As we settled in over the next few laps, I think at times, I was inches from David’s bumper as we squeezed in and out of corners playing cat and mouse. I started learning where I was faster and the line that David liked to run. It was a blast making runs up beside David into corners I had no chance of passing in. But now I had a plan… I was going to back off and get a run down 13, 14, 15 into 1 and 2 where I was faster than him - making my push around the inside of turn two to claim the As Bryan is about to overtake David, Corey feels someone breathing down his neck. position. But all of a sudden, I learned I had already beat myself! In my rush to run tight to David’s bumper and brake late and hard in all the corners, I had been starving my poor brakes of that all important cooling air! Oh no, it can’t be that I boiled my brakes! It was over, as I slowed down and David faded away from me over the remaining 4 or so laps. Live and learn - I always do that the hard way! All in all, it was a great weekend on a great track. I can’t wait to do it again! 12
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