Thankfully, the title has nothing to do with my race results from today. Well, I don't actually know the results as I left early to give both the car and Calvin a break, but I managed a respectable lap and was a second or so faster than my competitors so the class championship should be sewn up. I wish I could say the same for my car. On the drive home 2nd was barely there. Of course Calvin came to the rescue: "dad, just short-shift to 3rd." That would be my boy. Then when I tried to put the car in 5th it went into 3rd. Twice. I left it in 4th for a bit, then tried again and it found 5th. Time for a new tranny. There are cup races first weekend in December but I can't get it fixed in time for that...oh, and it'll likely be $3500 minimum and more like $5K likely to rebuild it. Sigh again. Maybe I should just buy this one (Jim's car that I co-drove at Buttonwillow...this is me braking into turn 1):
