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24H: Thursday night, first qualifying
Thursday, May 21, 2009
The single best lap from two qualifying sessions determines the grid. Thu night which was the first session, it started to rain just before it was time to roll out. We had been ready with tire warmers on our Hankook slicks to roll out in front, to not be blocked on the first lap like last year (which is THE lap to set a time w/o the risk of being slowed down while lapping traffic).

Waiting in my loaner suit from Stand 21 (my personal one was in for a warranty repair). Photo: J. Shin

We decided to wait for it to dry up, or at least until there was a dry line. Setting a time in the 11min range is pointless when a little bit of dry will make most cars go below that. About halfway into this night session skies cleared up a bit and laptimes came down to within a minute of the dry practice times. We still had the slicks on and were just about to roll out to get a decent time, when the drizzling started again... quickly we got the intermediates ready but reports from around the track said lots of rain.

So we put the rains on and just did our mandatory night session laps. There were really some severe showers and as usual on the Nordschleife, different amounts of rain in every section of every lap. Now we were really needing dry weather for Friday's second qualifying.

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Name: Carl Rydquist
Age: 33
Home: Redondo Beach
Web: CarlRydquist.com
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Highlights: Winner of Swedish Endurance 8/12h GT Racing Championship (2001). Winner of Swedish Endurance 3h GT Racing Championship (2004). Winner of Zandvoort 500 (2005). Winner of Eurosport Super Racing Weekend Challenge (2001). 24 Hours of Nurburgring (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009).
Memberships: FIA (intl racing license), Formula D, Performance Two Stunt & Precision Driving Team, Hollywood, CA, Screen Actors Guild.
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