Pierre Bourque dropped us a note from the road....
"Greetings from the highway, en route back to Ottawa from Loudon, NH!
Rained most of the morning at the New Hampshire International Speedway. We were there for an official NASCAR test day in advance of the upcoming Cup race where we're the main support race in a couple weeks.
After lunch, I did 10 laps or so, came in for an adjustment, went back to to pits to go back out, then the skies opened up and everything's wet here again. The sun came out for a bit 90 mins later, and the jets spent the rest of the afternoon trying to dry things up, but no luck. The track closed officially at 4:45 pm.
So now I'm driving home tonight, 7 hrs, then head to the Connecticutt race Wednesday afternoon.
We had a wild race at Holland Speedway (NY) near Buffalo on Saturday night. A little 3/10ths track, 150 laps.
I qualified terribly (still gotta work on those 2-lap bonzai laps), but I ran with the leaders for much of the race, until the wire to the kill switch on my steering wheel disconnected and I had to coast into the pits with a dead engine to get it repaired. That lost us 7 laps and we finally finished 20th place.
But a heck of a learning curve and a great experience to know I can run with the leaders. As you can imagine, a lot of driving NASCAR is about self-confidence. And we notched it up quite a bit the other night on that little track in upstate NY."
Thanks Pierre!
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