Team South Motorsports 1922, we had been fighting an electrical gremlin on the mag side fuel injector prior to the race, Friday we found the ground wire was almost broke causing intermittent missing. Fixed that and we were good to go for the race. As some of you know we are a 3 man team, and split the driving. This race Michael was starting the race and getting out at pit 3 roughly 100mi in. At aprox rm 30 he hit a bush and the same injector started going in and out again! We started 11th off the line and by rm100 we were 3rd on the track. Michael did have the fastest split time in the first 100mi but everyone knows you can't win a 300mi race in the first 100. After pit 3 Russell got in and started a good pace but the belt let go on him and took 10min to change, less than a mile after the belt we had a flat tire, likely from pulling off track to change the belt. Got that swapped and made it to pit 6 where I was getting in. My wife got in with me to navigate, she's ridden with me before in RallyRaid but this was her first desert race, just after leaving pit 6 the course line disappeared from the GPS, I decided to keep going and just follow the markers " BAD IDEA" after 5 miles I ran into a flag man that said you missed your turn aways back! Turned around got the gps working and back on track, all the while the car was missing and backfiring with the injector problem. At rm250 the car started running perfect and we were on the rally style roads hauling the mail, no dust whatsoever beautiful scenery! Smooth sailing until a mile before the finish, the bad injector quit all together and we limped into the finish. 8th place but our confidence is up knowing we at least have the speed to compete once we sort out all our bugs. Had a great time, look forward to V2R!
