Monday, July 16, 2012

Yesterday was somewhat of a washout and unfortunately we didn't make it to the Mansfield, Ohio checkpoint. We were stuck wading through scattered thunderstorms from the moment we left the Erie, Pennsylvania stage stop. At 9am we were lined up to leave for the second leg of the race when we were met simultaneously with sudden downpour and a situation with the vehicle where we were required to pop the top on the car for troubleshooting and an impromptu replacement of some electronics. This lead to several hours lost race time and left us with very unfavorable conditions to close any gap with other teams. By mid afternoon, the call was made to stop and charge in a brief pocket of sunshine before continuing on to the designated charge time at 6pm. From there we trailered to Ann Arbor where we're only just getting to sleep and prepared for the day tomorrow. To make matters worse we had yet another flat tire on our trailer. Hopefully we'll be able to regroup and make better headway in the next few days. Good luck teams of ASC.