Sjödin Motorsport / ÅBM Racing

The running order for Q2, but if it will be like this is something we soon will see!

First we waited a pretty long time for Kuno to fire up the car, assume they had some issues staring or getting him into the car. And I want to race against someone so I always waits on the one in the other lane.

Then we got hold before the burn out for a crazy long time… I want to do a rolling burn out and I really DONT understand why the track crew is the one to hold me and decide when to do the burn out!?… We have a procedure to do what we do to be able to do it correctly!… My plan was a long smokey burn out to get some heat in our brand new tires!… But that did not happen!..

Next, I went into pre stage and then I was sitting waiting forever / almost 1 minute waiting on Kuno before we both finally were in stage…. And cylinder head temp and transmission oil temp about 45 Fahrenheit more than normal…

Shock the tires hard directly on the line… And after that I almost ran over one in the shit down area that was standing in the middle of the track when I looked forward again after checking around in the car and turned of all bottles and so on!…

So now I’m kind of lost, on to the next in about 1 hour or so.

Good morning Saturday from Santa Pod Raceway, it’s qualifying day!

Follow the link and look at the qualification that starts today around 12:00 English time!

https://www.youtube.com/@SantaPodTV/streams

Today we have spent all day servicing the Vette and doing changes to it after yesterday’s test and looking at some data!

Some changes to the converter is one thing I’m sure will solve some of our problems!

Of course we have been eating today also! 🙂

We have got the car inspected and approved!

We have put on some new slicks!

We have done some weld repair and tried to fix our bent wheelie bars!…

We have sold shirts and met the awesome English fans and supporters! 🙂

We did even get a drawing of the Vette from a little guy named Oscar! 😀

Then it was a traditional Swedish Taco Friday for dinner!

We did also check the third member after all tire shake to make sure it looks good for the coming weekend!

Qualifying for the Main Event starts tomorrow around lunch, English time!

Stay tuned!

We are getting there with the Vette but there is still stuff to sort out!…

It’s been a messy day here today!… Started with the Racepak issue, and then some other messing around!

BUT, I’m pretty happy anyway! We have made 2 more passes down the track with the Vette! 😀

0.9568 to the 60ft in the first test round tells me I’m on to something, but still far away when I look at the Racepak data!… I went into a shake before I saw the shift light for second gear and when I shifted it went way worse!… That round ended up with a 4.06 to the 1/8 and 6.26 to the 1/4!

To the next round I did A LOT of changes everywhere in the car! I felt when I backed up after the burn out that something was kind of wrong but I could not say why I felt like the engine wasn’t idling like it should…

The car felt great but a bit lazy in the round, 0.9748 to 60ft and 4.04 to 1/8 and ended up with a 6.20 to the 1/4 mile!… I felt it was down on power and after the round when I looked at the data I saw that cylinder 1 was kind of out directly when the burn out started…. 🙁 And when we took off the valve covers we found a broken valve spring on cylinder 1…. So that was the power I was missing during the round, the good thing is that engine looks good so far, so we haven’t hurt anything!

Tomorrow is a day off for us, servicing the car and have it inspected for the Main Event that starts on Saturday!

Stay tuned!

Good morning from a chilly Santa Pod Raceway, today we have the Thursday test before The Main Event this coming weekend!

This might the most sun we have seen now since Monday! 🙂

It’s only about 12 degrees Celsius outside so it’s cold, but the Santa Pod crew are working on the track and are helping it building up some heat with the jet dryer! Kind of amazing that they do it over here for a test day when tracks back home won’t do it during a race weekend!…

The Vette is ready after some service and 2 days of beauty sleep! 😉 I just got some tuning stuff left to do on her.

I think we will go out around lunch for the first hit when Sofi has finished up her work for the day!