06/08/2023
Mid Ohio recap: oh where to start 😂 So we got to the track later than I like to on Thursday night. Realized my battery was dead in the car and I didn’t have my charger or cables with me. Big thanks to Ido Waksman for lending me his jumper and Josh Powers for lending me a battery charger 🙏🏼 if only that was the worst that happened we’d be doing great haha first session was stopped 2 laps in due to a black flag with an off. 2nd session I ended up missing due to the battery being dead again and I already returned the jumper to Ido. At this point I was irritated and ordered a new battery from Advance Auto Parts which they delivered to their booth at the track. 3rd session on the first hot lap I got some bad vibration under hard braking so I had to pull it back in to figure what in the world it was. My lug nuts ended up coming loose causing the wheel to wobble and ended up destroying the wheel and lug nuts. This is more on me as I normally torque the lugs after every season but with the battery issue I completely forgot too, lesson learned. So after calling 10 different Honda dealers to source lug nuts with no luck I decided to check Advance Auto Parts for s**t and giggles. Miraculously they had 3 in stock that I went to pick up so I could change them that night. So I changed those and put my spare wheels and tires on that are completely shot just so I could at least put a time down. Got a 1:43.716 which I knew I could improve. Went over to the Falken Tire trailer to see if they would swap over my newer tires to my spare wheels. They came in clutch and swapped them right over for me 🤙🏼 so I went out for the 3rd qualifier and coming into turn 4 after the longest straight I was about halfway into the braking zone and my foot goes to the floor. I was able to pump the brakes to get enough pressure to slow down. Needless to say I blew a brake line and ended my weekend. So I “packed my s**t in the fu***ng trailer” to go home. About two miles down the road I experienced the worst kidney pain I’ve ever felt to where I could drive or keep my eyes open. So my wonderful girlfriend Desteny Ramsey took over the driver seat and drove the whole way home as I moaned in pain from the passenger seat contemplating going to the hospital. Then about 2 1/2 hours later the pain just completely went away. We’ll get her fixed up so we can head to Connecticut for Line Rock in a week and a half. Hopefully we’ll have a better experience 😂 Still had a good time hanging out with my dad and sister that came out Saturday to watch me break s**t and desteny and the kids who put up with me being annoyed all weekend from breaking s**t. 😂