I was glad that I had another race the next day since it gave me another shot a good result. Tim started the car and ran a strong first stint moving us eventually up into the top five. There was a yellow early when a Mustang in the GS class went on its roof of the opening lap, so the first twenty minutes of the race were run under the caution flags. Tim started his forward progress after the restart and we got another yellow flag at around the one hour mark. We were going to bring Tim in for the pit stop and driver change during the yellow. I was doing our race strategy and I wanted to bring him in with several laps remaining in the caution, but I had to talk with him on the radio and didn't have time to alert the crew and get my helmet on. I had to leave him out for one extra lap while we all got ready. The consequence of this was that I couldn't catch the back of the pack prior to the restart so I started about a half lap behind the field.

The first hour or so was pretty uneventful while I tried hard to play catch up. With about thirty minutes remaining in the race I had worked my way up to fourth position when I suddenly was overwhelmed by the smell of fuel. At first I thought maybe a fuel line had come loose. I checked all the gauges, but found nothing. The fuel remaining indicator showed less fuel than I expected us to have, so I was concerned that we were losing fuel at a rapid rate and that either we would run out, or I would pass out from the fumes. I was discussing the situation with the crew for several laps when someone crashed and out came a full course yellow.