Week 27 - Tales of the Turtles 200 @ Chicagoland Speedway (133 laps, 200 miles)Q: 12
R: 18
I put in a surprisingly good qualifying time here as car #29 of 30, outqualifying most of my team. However I made a silly error of not loading my race setup before gridding. After two laps I noticed my water and oil temperature rising to critical levels and had to pit to remove some grille tape. This put me a lap down but I soon got it back when a caution flag came out. Unfortunately in this race anything that could go wrong did. I got turned around by another car which at the same seemed really odd as we weren't really that close, but my team told me that I was blinking on track, which meant my internet connection was having problems. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting but this didn't resolve it, so I had to go for the dreaded router reboot. By the time I rejoined I was 11 laps down, although my connection seemed solid again.
From that point onwards it was just a case of trying to get as many laps back as I could. By the end I was only 4 laps down, but it was a struggle. Shame as I had a top ten car, but after all the issues I'd take P18.