If last weekend's race rainouts weren't bad enough for Paul Gibbs and the Cuda Beast team, there was this post afterward from team member Keith Dockery:
"Well, seems like some times when it rains, it pours. Holiday turned out not good at all for the Cuda team. Thought all would be well when we only lost a battery charger that was left outside in the first of the rain showers. But on the way home, Paul ended up with some major issues, lost all the oil in the dually engine and was stuck on the side of I-20. Finally got a trailer and tow vehicle recovered to a mall parking lot around 4 a.m. this (Sunday) morning.
"When things go south, the race community seems to always pull together to assist wherever we can. We cannot thank everyone enough for all the support, especially to Terry Priest, who came with a rollback and recovered the broken Dodge dually for repairs, and will assist in those also. More thanks to the team to David Elsberry for the loan of another dually to get the trailer and car home to Blue Ridge so Paul can start the cleanup of all the oil all over the trailer. Hope that the white trailer just makes all that oil look worse than it is.
"Once again, many, many thanks to Terry and David for the assistance from the entire Cuda Beast team. Good folks always pull together in the bad times as well as the good."
Yes, thanks to Terry Priest and David Elsberry and everyone else who offered help. Such generosity of time and effort occurs at pretty much every race, at and away from the track.
I haven't been able to talk to Paul, but I'm sure he has a lot more important stuff to take care of. It was bad enough to get psyched up for a weekend of racing, only to have them cancelled, but this jolt of misfortune is simply unbelievable.
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