After a year’s hiatus from racing the Mad Cow car except for one oval race in July where we were wrecked hard and tboned, the Mad Cow 34 car returned to road racing at Road Atlanta on March 17 to run in the Pot O’ Gold race weekend hosted by the good folks at NASA Southeast. We decided to run the car there as it is surely one of the nation’s best road courses, and it had just been repaved, so we thought it would be fun to start the 2007 season there.After a wet and harrowing 12hour tow to the track on Friday, we arrived around 6PM, setup, teched and got ready for practice the next morning. We practiced OK on Saturday, about 5 seconds off our previous pace, but we were running on 2yearold tires, had just repaired the car from a bad wreck, and the track was obviously new, and needed to be relearned. Plus it was cold, and we had a pretty rusty driver. And the rear view mirror fell off early on, so it was difficult to do much cutandthrusting when you couldn’t see other cars behind you. My excuse book was getting pretty full by now, and I ended the session driving very cautiously.

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