Tow completed his run and quickly turned the D over to Lugnut to finish the day. After the calamity that befell the Z, Torch was able to finish his stint. Muddy was happy to even get the stint, and jumped in with an hour left to run.
Muddy entered the track right into a pack of cars. Hidden in that group was the D. Lugnut, seeing an opportunity pushed hard and the battle was on. After several laps, Lugnut managed to finally get behind the Z going into turn 6. With full pride on the table, both went screaming through the carousel (maybe not the brightest idea in wet conditions). Muddy in the lead managed to get through traffic, stretch it out going into turn 7 and mostly disappeared from there.
However, Lugnut in the D still lurked. With intermittent rain, a lot of tow truck action was needed to get other overdoers out of the mud. With about half the stint completed a full course yellow bunched everyone up. When the green flew again, Lugnut was able to find his quarry, and the chase was on. Lugnut put down several flier's and in the process logged the quickest race lap in the D for the weekend (a 2:09.543). His efforts was rewarded by getting under the rear bumper of the Z going into turn 3. Muddy having none of it, throw caution to the wind, and dropped the hammer. By the time the Z got through 6 the D was 5 car lengths behind, and the encounter was effectively terminated.
The race finished with both cars running and getting the checkers. In the end the D placed 80th and the Z 60th out of 179 cars who log laps. Good on that score. The true victory was everyone got their allocated drive, with 3 stints each for the weekend.
That is a "W" to my goals, and it only happened with the team's hard work. Thank you!
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