Thanks for the props Tyler, I had a fun but frustrating night. The car felt good in warmups and I was encouraged by how hard it was pulling when I kept the throttle down and I was keeping up with the guys in front of me a lot better than last time at Montpelier (at least it felt that way to me). Around the second or third lap of hotlaps I stabbed the brakes to set her for the corner and she just came around like I'd staked the left front to the ground. In the process of looping around backwards I apparently broke something in the starter so I needed a push the rest of the night. In my heat I opted to take my 4th starting spot and kept with the pack at the green, but I intentionally stayed high to give the guys (and Lynsey) racing room; not ready to mix it up just yet. Again, the car felt like it was pulling harder but the brakes still felt "grabby", even though I'd backed the bias adjuster all the way out. Adrienne my Able-Bodied Pit Doll and I set about fueling the car up for the Main but when we started to push out it just wouldn't roll. That's when I found the source of the grabbiness; the front pads had disintigrated and welded themselves to the rotor, forcing us to scratch.
Lesson learned: just because the car came with a case of front brake pads doesn't neccessarily mean they're the RIGHT brake pads...
Congrats to Shane, he made a nice "pick" move in traffic to get around Trey and that was all she wrote. And thanks to Mel and all the crew at Gas City. We'll be back.