After jacking up the car and looking underneath, chief Bill Smith found a hairline crack in the transmission casing.  The damage was doubtless caused by our fly-away driveshaft at our last race in Grand Forks.  That incident has proved more and more costly.  As the shaft came lose, it took out tires, rims, some of the suspension, and now we'll need some serious transmission work--removal and re-housing.  At least (we hope!!!) it didn't damage the actual transmission.  No real evidence of that.

We were  discouraged and crabby, but the sun was shining so we all took a step back and sat down on the grass and got out minds off racing tonight, and on track in terms of when/where we can race again.  The opportunities are getting limited unless we do a long haul somewhere.

But first things first:  Skyler and Bill will be working on the car this week, and we'll see happens after that.