Sopping Saturday

Was up party people?
We had a shower party this Saturday where Ford Focus got dirty as bitch! That was the 5th time we took a part in F-200 race, where Focus drove itself towards, competed and returned back home, on the same, own 4 wheels. Can you imagine that?
This time we were aiming to take the 1st place -  as always... but as always we didn't go that far :( Of course - you may ask why? Few whys:

1. Tires. Yeah, we wanted to make this race more like economical ones and we run with old rubber tires, that were already eaten close to an end during previous F-200 race. Oh well, we had a spare good ones but those were borrowed by Tadas's neighbor and we wanted to keep them for the worst case scenario. So the tires went completely off the tread and it was really difficult to catch some speed without a wheel spin and I am not talking about under-steering in every corner... The golden rule is that you shouldn't economy on a good rubber in motorsport as you don't economy in buying good rubber condoms if you want to have a safe sex. 
2. Bent steering linkage. F'kin Mazda 323F! If to recap who has made the most damage to Ford during all the F-200 races, that would be the f'kin Mazdas! Damn you Japan cans! Well, most probably that's the driver to blame not the car itself of course...but this time one of Mazda's f'kin driver showed that he is a total idiot! I bet that he didn't accept the overtake I made, and leading with bad intentions he kicked Ford ass after which Ford made a spin of 360 degrees! And moreover - that idiot hit the car again to the left front, straight to the doors and the wheel. After this collision I got V alignment in front wheels and almost stood in tillage, out of track  with the rear axle... 

Other than that, all went pretty much okey. We manage to take the 1st place in Semi-Finals and 7th place in Grand-Finals. Which I think is not bad keeping in mind that we were running booted with slicks on mud, plus wasting 5-10 min in boxes repairing bent steering link.

Ah, one more new to share - due to sickness our well experienced female driver Jolita was not able to participate in this race, so we had a substitute Jurate and she sky rocketed with Ford as well. Thank you Jurate! Great job! Greetings to you and all the team! Hip hip - hooray!