 It is 2.45 in the glorious morning, we are headed to Pikes Peak Mountain to practice for the Pikes Peak International Helpline. We have to be on the mountain early because the Race Association shuts down the mountain just for the competitors for four to five hours. And so we need to be able to practice and get off the road before 8.30 when it opens to the general public. The practices are for the teams to make lots of adjustments in all categories of the car from suspension to engine tuning to overall chassis dynamics and just making sure that the car is safe to race on race day. It's also for the drivers to learn the bumps, the dips and the turns on the road because it's different driving the road at 30 miles an hour as opposed to 130 miles an hour. Our goal for practice is just to make sure that the car is running the way that we want it to be running based on the variables that we see on the mountain temperatures, altitude and also to make sure that the driver is comfortable and that he is happy with the performance of the car. For practice we are going to be able to see some great cars, we are going to see a bunch of different types of cars from open wheel cars to full electric cars, stock cars and everything in between including the time attack cars which our cars fall into. Okay, we are back at Pike's Peak testing, we've done quite a bit to the car since the last time we saw what was happening. We completely gutted the interior, put in the safety equipment, the roll cage, pulled out other components of the interior that weren't necessary. We've also put in a communication system so I'm able to talk to the pits when I'm up on the mountain. You know, removed all the airbags which is mandatory for safety reason. Fire extinguisher which is hand held, you don't have to have a full fire system. Here we are at Pike's Peak practice, we've got the access port rigged up ready to log every single run we make. This car is currently running a Stage 2 OTS map with added ignition timing for the 100 octane that we're running. We're going to send David up the mountain, I'm going to log everything he does when he comes back down. We'll make changes, reflash it if necessary and send him on his way. The practice weekend started very, very rainy and wet, whereas at the start line it was raining and by mid-mountain to top-mountain it was snowing. So we've had some extreme weather this year, we've had a tremendous amount of precipitation that's predicted to continue all the way through the summer. So we're anticipating a rainy race in the afternoon if we don't leave early. It's pretty much guaranteed there's going to be water on the road because of the amount of snow that's on Pike's Peak. Well rain serves as a treacherous impact because it makes things extremely slick. I mean on race day you might have some vehicles that might drop a little bit of fluid or something, so with moisture on that obviously it turns into a really slippery course. Because of the weather we weren't able to see the data that we would typically like to see on a normal weather day. David's not able to push the car as hard as he wants and therefore we don't get to see as much as we normally would like to. But on the other hand we still got to gather good data. So I've run this race for many years and I continue to practice it and take advantage of the private test sessions. Because number one I'm in a different car, number two the surface is different and three weather conditions are different this year. So you have to be able to experience what it's going to be like with your combination of vehicle, road conditions, etc. So anybody that tests a great deal here, as Roger Penske says, performance brings results. So as the Cobb people need to test and tune the car, I need to test and tune my skills and my reflexes and my car interpretation and explain all that. So we've got to do it, it's just part of the deal. Right now I'm just pulling the log off the axis port of David's last run. I'll go through it while he goes up on his next run and make any changes when he comes back down again. Nothing really jumps out at me as being overly excessive, temps are good. Car scene is very happy, big things I'm looking for, ignition timing, retard, that's these little yellow dips here. This is the sum of all six cylinders so it's only a negative 1.1. So everything power wise, I know you didn't really handle it. No it was fine, we were trying to scrub these rains in a little bit because the track is always bad the first run anyway. Power was fine, I didn't notice anything, I never got to run it that hard yesterday because of the rain. So this run should give a better feel. I got some good data, it looks good so far. I'm going to go through this while you go up on the next run and then I'll make changes for the third run. So the road on Pike's Peak is also unpredictable because it changes in the way it has bumps and curves and this and that. And that's due to the permafrost below the pavement so it melts maybe within a week obviously by the sun hitting the black tarmac. It can actually make the asphalt move up and down so the bump last week might not be there but there might be two new ones. So you need to drive it a lot to truly understand it and every year it's different. David just finished his second run here so I just am pulling the data log off that run. I didn't change anything from the first run. This run was a little bit more aggressive so the data should be a little bit better. So after looking at the data from the last two runs I noticed they could use a little bit more timing. The Noxum corrections are very low so try to throw another degree or two in it and see what the time does. Time changes. Other than that everything looked good. I'm just going to let him go up for the third run for the day and compare times. So how did everything go today? Everything looks good. The AP data logging worked great. Very little timing corrections. Car seems very happy. Driver is very happy. Best time today in our class so things are going very well. Awesome. Yeah. David said the car is running really well so I think it's a great calibration for the race. So this after our first day of testing, second day actually we were very happy with the car. I mean the Cobb has done a fantastic job tuning it. I was telling the guys when I got down I said this is unbelievable that this is a street car because I'm running times that I was running in my race car two years ago. So we're extremely thrilled and we'll just see how it goes from there. Just taking big little steps all the way to the top and bring it back for the race in a couple weeks. We're very happy with the results from this weekend's practice. The calibration that we tested in Pueblo a few weeks ago performed as we expected and we only had to make a few minor adjustments like timing changes. There's been a lot of development to get this calibration to work as well as it does. It's been tested all the way from sea level to 14,000 feet and now all that's left is to run the race.