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Monday, September 06 2010 @ 09:51 PM CDT

Nord Stern opens Race season at BIR

Friday, May 07 2010 @ 03:52 PM CDT
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The First Race Group of the season opened the track at BIR for 2010. The event went well for the most part with the Group providing a good smattering of rescue challenges for RLR. With the moisture present on Friday there were a couple of cars that decided to test the structural integrity of the walls on the front stretch. The good news is that the walls are as sound as they have been in the past and the bad news is that the cars fared about as expected. One was driven off and the other was flat towed.

The second round of fun came from a Cadillac that exploded the front end transaxle on the front straight and left us with a nice strip of oil to clean up. It's NEVER good to be picking up casting parts from the ground where a car used to be. The car was flat towed off track and the clean-up was completed with our newest member Kyla assisting.

NS has also decided to start flat towing cars from the track during sessions while the track is still hot. I personally like this option as it is faster and provides a more realistic view of what happens during race events. It also provided a good training ground for the "heads-up" part of rescue work. The race group also does not loose any track time. With current staff this is about as safe as it can be made to be. Rescue one had the honor of two of these over the weekend.

Brandon and Kyla were also split between the rescue truck but from the smattering of incidents it initially looked like Brandon had the honor of Crap magnet for the weekend, but Kyla had the larger incidents where she was so the jury is still out on who was the bigger magnet.

Lastly but not by any means least we have added a new worker to the rescue crowd. Kyla is from the great white north, like a couple of other members, and comes in with medical, and Wrecker experience. I think she is a good fit for the group and from the training I have done with her she'll fit right in with the usual round of crap that we all get and give. She can keep up with the best of us....

See you next week or at a future event.

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