{"id":1083,"date":"2008-10-18T13:44:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T13:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manifestclients.com\/teamusa\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2012-09-13T13:46:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T13:46:20","slug":"conor-daly-the-heat-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"Conor Daly – The Heat Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Brands Hatch, England (October 18, 2008) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Today started off with Josef\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heat race. Both of us had never done standing starts before so we were a bit nervous. Luckily I got to watch Josef first to see if I could learn anything. Josef didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get that great of a start and fell to fourth which was unfortunate. He ended up fourth and I was next out. <\/p>\n

I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have that bad of a start but the guy in third place had a great start just getting by me before the first corner. I was in third with the first two guys right in front of me. I had just started pulling a small gap on the guys behind me when coming out of Turn Three I sensed something was wrong with the throttle. <\/p>\n

As soon as I went to shift to third gear the throttle stuck open but it went into third gear after a bit of over rev. So I was flat out into Kidney and Clearways thinking that that the throttle could well be stuck wide open. I went into Clearways and braked where I normally did and the throttle was indeed stuck wide open. I tried getting the car stopped but it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t working and I was heading for the gravel.<\/p>\n

I somehow thought of switching off the engine before I got too far into the gravel. I switched the engine on and off multiple times to keep the car going so I could get back to the pits safely. Luckily I got the car back to the pits. The team worked as hard as they could but I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t able to get back out on track until there were just two laps to go. When we got back to the pits we found out that there was a bent valve in the engine from the engine revving too high when the throttle stuck open in the pits while the crew was working on it.<\/p>\n

Through all this I am being very positive about everything. The car is very good and I am confident it will give me a chance to challenge for the win tomorrow. It will give me a chance to have a lot of fun in the semi final and final passing cars! I will be able to learn a lot about racecraft tomorrow and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brands Hatch, England (October 18, 2008) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Today started off with Josef\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heat race. Both of us had never done standing starts before so we were a bit nervous. Luckily I got to watch Josef…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}