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I'm going to Costco Friday @ lunch.... so post up in here by 11am Friday if you want me to get anything.

I'll cover the Charcoal, Bri... you want standard kingsford, or matchlight?
 
What, you guys aren't gonna come up for the festivities?

Man, Kris... its been forever since I've had your great cooking.... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm good.
 
I had some serious fun. Thanks to Kris and Jeff for hosting us and providing someplace other than a cold dark tent to sleep in the wind.

Thanks to Katie for the company and keeping up with me on the drive through 198! Thanks to Brian for the fine cigars and great meat.... Kris for the pilaf, and bacon and eggs, Jeff for minding the grill, Rob and Jen for the beer bread (mmmmmmm doughy goodness) Hale for the poker fun and Tuaca!

I made it home in probably record time. I won't post any speeds, but lets just say that a Porche 911 Turbo S, a BMW M3 and I covered about 40 miles between king city and paso robles in 21 minutes together.
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(The M3 pulled into the gas station in Paso Robles with me and was like "Man I didn't know a Focus could keep up like that! told him I had the supercharger) Left the track @ 3:30... got home to Burbank 7:15. 301 Miles.

I had a complete blast out at the track, can't wait to do it again next year!
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I figured these race teams had at least one spare motor with them. Especially a team like the Air Force Reserve Ford Focus team... For experienced mechanics, performing an engine swap shouldnt have taken them that much time. Did the engine blow in the pits or out on the track? Maybe it grenaded with too little time before the start of race....

Either way, it sucks. The Focus was running strong in practice, and would have probably finished top 10 if not top 5 with such little rewards weight on-board.
They were done and packing up on Saturday. My guess is they blew something during qualifying which is why they were down on time, but it would have been irreparable.

Guess they don't bring spare engines.
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