Headed home to Colorado from the SVRA event at COTA and this happens. Fortunately my wife noticed the trail of smoke before the tire was completely destroyed. Never mind that I have new tires/wheels, freshly repacked and adjusted bearings, and new LED lights on the trailer. So here's a trailer failure mode I didn't even consider.
The wheel chock suspension mod got me to a random shop in Post, TX that happened to have a set of old leaf springs the right length which they installed for me after a few hours, so it could have been worse.
I had no idea when I started racing how much of it was going to be taken up with trailer maintenance/repair.
It's been a rough event. After someone crashed into the safety car scattering carbon fiber across the track, my final race at 9:30am race got rescheduled for 4:30pm which basically meant getting home nearly a day later than planned. I opted to stay for the race, which I lead for most of it until my clutch cable broke. At which point I was glad the race was shortened--still managed third place shifting badly without the clutch. And then this happened. And then a winter storm closed the road home, so I'm stuck in New Mexico...
