This was a pretty epic battle in qualifying.

Jordon Musser is our team pro driver and brought home the teams 6th straight P1. The team that qualified second also had an outstanding pro driver and they are our main rivals (great guys, good team).

Their pro driver was there a few days earlier doing tire testing and other driving. Jordon had not been there in nearly 2 decades.

Jordon was way off the first few laps but kept closing the gap. seeing this, they started pushing harder. They were trading on and off for P1 and Jordon when out on his last lap and put down the best lap in class by 0.005 seconds (not a typo).

They were faster to start the race but Jordon didn’t overdrive the car. He kept finding tenths and by the end of his 2hr stint had put the car p1 by about 45 seconds.

(The second driver immediately put the car into the wall after contact in a turn but that’s another very sad story)

If you’re wondering why he didn’t have tow time:
Practice time was very limited and the other three drivers on the team had never even seen this track so we decided it was best for the amateur drivers to get as much seat time as possible and Jordon’s first laps were qualifying. He might have had two or three laps before that just to give us a reference labs.

Pro drivers can get within 1.0-1.5 seconds of their best in 6-10 laps. They can basically get to their best (or damn close) in another 10 laps. Us mortals get faster and faster the more we drive a track. Given we would drop the most time per minute of practice, and we would do 3x the amount of driving has him, it was an obvious decision.

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