NJMP Fan Notes by Eve
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Sunday, July 18th – It’s race day! I’m having a good feeling about this race, I think our boys will do well. I’m hoping for another podium for the #41 and at least a top 10 finish for the #40!
A few hours before the start of the race, I put on my DR shirt. The team normally doesn’t do very well when I’m wearing one of my shirts on race day, but I can’t be superstitious about that. When I woke up, I had a feeling both cars would do well… So let’s hope they will!
Once again, Patrick Dempsey couldn’t be at the race. He’s busy filming Transformers 3
And I for one can’t wait to see him back on the race track. Which hopefully won’t be long from now! in Chicago. But we all know he’ll be cheering the team on, just like I am!
The race starts with Joe Foster in the #40 in 8th place and James Gue in the #41 in 11th place.
The checkered flag waves and we’re off.
James quickly moves the #41 up to 9th place. Joe drops down to 11th. After 9 laps, Joe moves the #40 car up to 10th place.
We have our first full course caution 18 minutes into the race.
Some cars are pitting, James moves up to 6th, Joe drops down to 16th for reasons unknown.
Joe moves the car up to 11th position pretty quickly. Meanwhile, James drops down to 9th.
They stay in those positions for a while…
Lots of pit stops going on with 2 minutes left for the mandatory pit stop. Joe drops down to 14th, while James moves up to 8th.
Joe keeps moving up and dropping down in positions… Not sure what was going on, something might have been wrong with the car. (I know they had some trouble with it during practice)
An hour into the race, the #40 does a driver change. Charles is in the car. He goes out on the track in 16th position.
There’s a Joe interview after the driver change. Apparently the tires were to blame for the trouble they were having… Joe also said he misses Patrick and waved at the camera “Hi Patrick”. The fangirl in me couldn’t help but squee!
A little over an hour into the race, the #31 Corvette slides into the #40, destroying the left rear tire. Charles makes another pit stop to change the tires.
The Dempsey Racing team reported on Facebook later on that the Corvette had hit the door which caused it to not open or close anymore, so that caused a problem of course.
After the incident, Charles is in 17th place. Meanwhile the #41had moved up to 3th place.
1h20 into the race, the #41 has their driver change. They’re in 11th place when they get back out on the track.
Second full course caution 1h40 into the race. Both cars make a pit stop. The #40 changed drivers again, Joe is back in the car. After the second caution, the #40 is 14th and the #41 is 6th.
Third full course caution about 2h15 into the race, Leh is in 2nd place and Joe in 12th.
About 2h30 into the race, Joe spins out trying to pass the #33 Porsche in a turn. He manages to get back on track pretty quickly and no harm seems to be done to the car.
In the last 10 minutes of the race, Leh loses 2 track positions, putting him in 4th place.
And that’s how the race ends, with the #41 in 4th place and the #40 in 11th place.
Not the result I was hoping for, but both teams did pretty well. Too bad the #41 missed out on a podium finish, they were so close.
Next race is in 3 weeks at Watkins Glen. I’m hoping Patrick will be able to make it to that one. I miss seeing him race so much and we all know he does too.
So let’s hope he’ll be there! He’s the one that got me into racing after all!
~ Eve
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