I was actually very disappointed in my performance on the playa. My crew did fantastic but a few dumb decision on my part kept us from being successful.
1) not having a spare bottom shaft for the rearend was really stupid as I knew it was the weak link in our drivetrain. Lost two full days.
2) I instructed Brandon to do coast down test thinking that we had a clean neutral. We did have a clean neutral but it needed to be armed differently with the electronic valve body. I had totally forgotten about that. This killed our good transmission. Burnt her up reeeeal good.
3) I did not take an inventory of the ice we had on board for our last day of running and we did not have enough ice for the Intercooler to make good power.
I was actually very disappointed we did not come home with a 400+ mph run under our belt.
Designing, building and paying for enough hardware to get the job done is one thing. Actual execution of the task is quite another.
I still can't believe we left there with the car still running perfectly just because we had to come to work. In retrospect, we really should have taken one more day and figured out how to seal the cockpit a little better, then run her hard until we went really fast or broke her trying. That's what a good racer would have done.