[ATaylorRacing]

Well, my 12 second Neon SRT4 has a clutch problem now so I had to race the at the United Manual Transmission Racers Series with my 3 banger Geo Metro. The bad thing is that now the clutch is starting to slip with over 182,000 miles on the original piece. It would normally run 19.9s, but when I tried to launch at 4500 rpm it just sat in place with the clutch slipping badly, I lifted a bit and it started to go...ran a crappy 20.8 something! The next (last) timed run I launched at 2800 and the clutch did not slip but the motor bogged pretty badly for 20.58 pass. I dialed a 20.56 and killed the first guy on the tree, launched at 3500 and the clutch slipped a bit and then it bogged a bit....ran 20.77 on the brakes and my incremental times showed it should have ran a 20.53. The next round was easy too and then I left at 4000 rpm and the clutch slipped a bunch...ran a 21.00 and had a crappy light, but made some money AND moved from 6th place in pts to 5th! The top ten get money/prizes at the end of the year!

On a side note...I got nearly 57 mpg driving the 145 miles home!