rockinrams Posted Feb 5, 2025, 10:19 pm

After another spell of inactivity from the Beasts, the Somerset trio decided to run it up with a field of Turin's in their racing flash, but there was just one small problem. Gerald, helping Elfriede into the flash "aye Hong, you fill it with gas? Hong suddenly perking up "shoot, lemme get that right quick!" Not a minute later Hong was filling the flash up with alcohol, when the announcement to line up on the field was made. Gerald would give the hood of the flash a couple slaps to signal Elfriede to get moving, only to realize.. "AY WAIT!! THE TIRES AR-" But Elfriede was already off to the starting grid. "Grraahhh....now what?" Hong, in a defeated tone "Just watch it, see if she might manage somethin' outta 'er" And manage Elfriede did. (ref event 676307) thanks to a high draw, Elfriede started 2nd, though totally confident in her retention for the feel of it, chose to let out of the gas down the slope, letting almost every other Turin by on her left, only to abuse the great nimbleness of the flash- wait a minute... "Som'pin ain' right...that wasnt near as loose as I remember" Nonetheless she slid right back to the front of the pack, and went on without incident to the chicane, where again, something felt off. "Def'nitely ain' right..." Again though she got through the corner and off to the next corner without issues, though she did forget about the inside drop off on the left hander, and again the flash handled tighter than what it felt that it should. On the second lap though, the problem began. Most of the way down the flash whipped around and shredded both front tires clean off and popped the rears partially off of their beads, which normally is typical of a flash, except... "that ain' how they shred off proper, was way too quick like! What is going ON?" despite this, Elfriede pushed on, righting the flash's direction and rolling on; She had too much of a gap made to just give up. She again went on without incident up to to the left hander, though the flash was very noticeably slower along the way. and even after the left front rim digging in at the drop off, forcing the flash into a spin, Elfriede quickly righted it again and had managed to build up enough of a gap that it didnt matter anyway. Elfriede, as she is crossing the line "meh, whats left of these tires prolly couldnt even be sold as salvage" as she proceeds to hook it left across the line, and then back to the right, the crowd cheers. Upon returning to the Beast's spot in the pits, Hong and Gerald are ecstatic about what she had just pulled off Hong, first to shout out "you just ran on chewed up n' dry rotted tires like it was NUTHIN'! AND you made those turin's look like CHUMPS!" Gerald on the verge of laughing "You really made 'em look like a drunkard stumbling through the bar with that run. just about ery'body commented on our tires! and man did they know it would either be a blowout..pun intended..or an insane show!" Elfriede being astonished by herself now "Well shoot if id'a known before we went out i woulda raced it WAAYY more cautious-like!" The crew would pack up with various quips about what just happened, an then went off to Dexter's for a couple shots...oh, a new set of tires from Jake's too.