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#21

[quote=“Ranger” post=77309]Race report, part 1.

We had a standing start Saturday. I missed both 2nd and 3rd gears , and lost 2 places. I went into 7 wide to give Paul Patrick room and then chortled when I saw how much turn exit speed he lost. I got by Aaron Whitinger on the back stretch and Greg Smith moved up behind me. The train was now Mark, me, Greg, Paul, and Aaron as we roared towards the [strike]checkered[/strike] red flag.

At the restart I went into turn 1 inside of Mark but he held me off. Shit, this would seem to be a new Mark Issa. Greg took advantage and got beside on the outside of 2 but I used 3 to scrape him off. Paul used that to take Greg.

Once again Paul tried to take the inside of 7, hosed himself for turn exit speed, but caught back up to me in the 10a braking zone.

Thru the whole race I was holding my own in turn 1, but still losing some ground in turn 5. Could be worse.

GTS traffic came thru which opened us up a bit. Issa got away from me when I had to check up to avoid a sideways e36 at the exit of 10b. Shortly thereafter Greg was on me like stink. Then as we headed down to 12 and a white flag, a GTS 944 took the inside of 12 at exactly the wrong moment and I had to ease off because I was in the marbles. Greg and Paul zipped by me on the straight as I ground my teeth in frustration. Finished 12 of 25.
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Saturday race https://vimeo.com/98558758

#22

[quote=“Ranger” post=77319]Part 2. Sunday’s race.

I think I started 13th of 24. Ryan Whitinger got on my inside going into 1. I don’t know what he was doing starting behind me, but it didn’t last. We remained side-by-side all the way thru 5. Always recalling my big crash in the S curves, I positively hate being 2-wide in the S’s. I exited 5 tight so I wouldn’t slide against Ryan, but available room to track out allowed Ryan to take 5 much faster so he left me in his dust as we climbed the hill. Brian Edmonds used my slow 5 to catch up and we did 6 and 7 together, but he had to take 7 tight enough that it killed his exit speed.

I spent the next several laps as tail-end Charlie in a 7 car train. It was totally awesome to watch the battling in front of me while looking for an opening myself. Then I got a better 7 then Savannah based newby Jeff Retey and got him on the back stretch. I ended up on Mark Issa’s tail, again, but this was the new Mark Issa and I didn’t have anything for him.

AR Hoshmandy came out of 10b like a freight train and passed me heading into 12. That slowed me up and Jeff got me in one. I got him back tho when an e36 slowed Jeff down in 7. I then struggled for a couple turns to pass a slow 944 while Jeff looked to exploit my troubles, then I got the 944 when he got a bit sideways coming out of 5. It was in turn 10 it almost all ended.

A little VW GTS3 car passed me going into 10. Then he had brake troubles, struggled a bit and, to my very great surprise, parked it between a and b. I zoomed thru 10a as best I could but then stood the car on it’s nose trying to avoid rear-ending the VW. Then he and is 300ftlbs charged up the hill and I yelled a lot. Jeff and Chris Harkins went by me.

In the next lap, as Jeff entered 5 on a 944’s tale, the 944 locked up it’s brakes at turn entry. That caught Jeff by surprise and he spun left just after the apex. I checked up because I’m weary of hitting spinning cars and Paul Patrick darted by me.

The next couple of laps were spent watching Chris and Paul battle it out. We had a couple 944’s mixed in with us and I had some anonymous white car behind me so there were 6 of us. We have too many white cars, they all look the same. The anonymous guy in my mirror then went off the exit gators in 7 and trying to regain control knocked him out of our train. The lead 944, now #2 in the train ahead of Chris, got into trouble in 10 and that made it Paul, Chris and me.

I then spent 2 laps behind Chris as Paul got away. I could see that the only place I had an edge on Chris was in 1, it just took me an extra lap to set it up. It was white flag so Chris fought hard for it and stayed alongside, but I scraped him off in 3. Finished 13 of 24.[/quote]
Sunday race https://vimeo.com/98576669

#23

Ranger…I waved to you as I darted by! :slight_smile:

#24

Haven’t got to my video yet (Fred or Stroup feel free to post the qual accident if you so desire) but I had a blast. Saturday was a dud for me but sunday was a lot of fun, especially racing with Joel Barber. Good clean racing and a lot of fun. New engine ran hot but good. Actually ran better after I replaced the cheater CPS bracket that Scott found so apparently I wasn’t cheating correctly. Wish I had known it was modified and what to do with it. Oh well. Now if I can just find some speed in the seat…

P.S. I gave the cheater bracket to Aaron so if you’re looking again…I’m just sayin…:wink:

#25

Lol, hard to say which Whitinger car this will end up on…

#26

Wow what a eventfull weekend for me. Was great to meet everyone, SouthEast guys really are class act. Road Atlanta is an amazing and technical track. Weekend started out rough with 343 struggling with overheating issues, then a wreck in qualifying. Somehow I was able to get out on track for Sundays quali and race. Found some more speed on the track but car started to overheat few laps into the race. Lost lots of power and was unable to reach 5th gear. Despite the rough weekend i still had a great time. Big thanks to RAAW Motorsports and everyone else who got me and my car through the weekend. Looking forward to racing down there again in a few months.

Sat Crash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDJSZSz57BM

Peter Thibault

#27

[quote=“PThibault” post=77390]Wow what a eventfull weekend for me. Was great to meet everyone, SouthEast guys really are class act. Road Atlanta is an amazing and technical track. Weekend started out rough with 343 struggling with overheating issues, then a wreck in qualifying. Somehow I was able to get out on track for Sundays quali and race. Found some more speed on the track but car started to overheat few laps into the race. Lost lots of power and was unable to reach 5th gear. Despite the rough weekend i still had a great time. Big thanks to RAAW Motorsports and everyone else who got me and my car through the weekend. Looking forward to racing down there again in a few months.

Sat Crash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDJSZSz57BM

Peter Thibault[/quote]

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#28

Oh dang… Another fun weekend guys. Great to meet new faces, specially the friendly ones :laugh:

Great Racing on Saturday. I blew the start and the restart, but thanks to Walsh/Lako B)

Saturday night was too much fun… again! It made it for a very interesting Sunday qualifying.

Just as Chris said, the gas pedal kept getting stuck, it threw me out of T5 on the first lap, I was able to squeeze my foot in between the gas and brake to pop it out, and just a lap later, it did it again on T1, but on the last lap coming out of T6, there wasn’t enough time for me to pop it back out, I panicked then crash. Not a big hit, but sucks still :frowning: - It will be ready for CMP

I understand I owe some people some t-shirts, lol. I’ll make it up with some tequila.

Great time everybody, let’s do CMP only 2 signed up so far. WTF?! Whitenger - bring your shifter, I’ll bring the other one

#29

Sandro…don’t worry I will be at CMP to drink that tequila. I’m bringing my old t-shirts or tank top for the evening party mayhem. You might consider the same. :evil: I will try to make Sun qual this time. :unsure:

Looking forward to lots of fun!

#30

Steve, great driving and great job with the video! That’s awesome switching to the rear view to show the action behind you.

#31

I say class director only gets involved if things are ugly.[/quote]

https://vimeo.com/98451339

It’s a little hard to tell from the video. Was a yellow flag being shown in 10a?

#32

[quote=“Rob in VA” post=77403]It’s [strike]a little[/strike] not hard to tell from the video. Was a yellow flag being shown in 10a?

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Fixed it for ya. :evil:

(PS - I probably would have missed it too given all the action going on.)

#33

Rob,

I think the flaggers saw Lako and Walsh together on the last lap battling for P1 so they gave the ‘advanced’ yellow flag warning for all the other E30 drivers to be careful and avoid the carnage. :laugh:

#34

For those of you that were not there, It is hard to tell from Lako’s video but both the flags at 10a and 11 were debris flags. I just watched my Saturday video and the debris flag came out on the previous lap just after Lako and Walsh went through and were still out on the last lap of the race. There were some BMW bumper trim pieces located between 10b and 11 which brought out the flags.

#35

Thanks for chiming in. I believe you’re right.

I can see a hint of red striping in this shot.

#36

[quote=“ppatrick” post=77416]Rob,

I think the flaggers saw Lako and Walsh together on the last lap battling for P1 so they gave the ‘advanced’ yellow flag warning for all the other E30 drivers to be careful and avoid the carnage. :laugh:[/quote]

:laugh: :laugh:

#37

Had a great weekend!! Other than some minor difficulties. On Saturday i qualified 15th out of a 25 car field which I didn’t think was to bad! The race was great for the 6 or seven laps we had. Until I went off in T1 and fell to 20th but I gained back 2 positions in 10b on the last lap :slight_smile: I also was involved in Saturday nights shenanigans :stuck_out_tongue: and later in the night found my self helping a few to there trailers and trucks. I won’t forget that night! :laugh:

Sunday was good. Scott Graig and I had an incident on the straightaway between 5 and 6 in Qual. I slowed up so they could get by because they were obviously faster than me. Scott went left and Graig went right and I was stuck in the middle. Graig saw an M3 coming to his right and I think it spooked him so he turned left and came in contact with me which caused me to hit Scott…I done got sandwiched :pinch: As Scott said are cars had some body damage but nothing to bad! Sundays race was good nothing really that exciting for me.

It was one hell of a weekend!! :woohoo:

#38

Aaron… Thanks for helping us survive the chupacabra antics on Saturday eve. At least you didn’t get the shirt ripped off your back or get thrown in the pool like Greg and me from what I can remember. I’m mostly thankful you noticed my transmission cross bracket was completely unbolted and hanging after Saturday’s race. I just checked my car over this evening and 4/5 of the diff bolts were nearly falling off too. :ohmy: All good now, luckily I didn’t drop my complete drivetrain on Saturday. From now on I will put a wrench on all the bolts before every event.

#39

Pics and videos for Speednews articles. Come on folks, send me your pics and post your videos. Especially videos of front-runners. That’s how I figure out what happened up front so I can write it up.

#40

[quote=“Ranger” post=77319]Part 2. Sunday’s race.

I think I started 13th of 24. Ryan Whitinger got on my inside going into 1. I don’t know what he was doing starting behind me, but it didn’t last. We remained side-by-side all the way thru 5. Always recalling my big crash in the S curves, I positively hate being 2-wide in the S’s. I exited 5 tight so I wouldn’t slide against Ryan, but available room to track out allowed Ryan to take 5 much faster so he left me in his dust as we climbed the hill. Brian Edmonds used my slow 5 to catch up and we did 6 and 7 together, but he had to take 7 tight enough that it killed his exit speed.

I spent the next several laps as tail-end Charlie in a 7 car train. It was totally awesome to watch the battling in front of me while looking for an opening myself. Then I got a better 7 then Savannah based newby Jeff Retey and got him on the back stretch. I ended up on Mark Issa’s tail, again, but this was the new Mark Issa and I didn’t have anything for him.

AR Hoshmandy came out of 10b like a freight train and passed me heading into 12. That slowed me up and Jeff got me in one. I got him back tho when an e36 slowed Jeff down in 7. I then struggled for a couple turns to pass a slow 944 while Jeff looked to exploit my troubles, then I got the 944 when he got a bit sideways coming out of 5. It was in turn 10 it almost all ended.

A little VW GTS3 car passed me going into 10. Then he had brake troubles, struggled a bit and, to my very great surprise, parked it between a and b. I zoomed thru 10a as best I could but then stood the car on it’s nose trying to avoid rear-ending the VW. Then he and is 300ftlbs charged up the hill and I yelled a lot. Jeff and Chris Harkins went by me.

In the next lap, as Jeff entered 5 on a 944’s tale, the 944 locked up it’s brakes at turn entry. That caught Jeff by surprise and he spun left just after the apex. I checked up because I’m weary of hitting spinning cars and Paul Patrick darted by me.

The next couple of laps were spent watching Chris and Paul battle it out. We had a couple 944’s mixed in with us and I had some anonymous white car behind me so there were 6 of us. We have too many white cars, they all look the same. The anonymous guy in my mirror then went off the exit gators in 7 and trying to regain control knocked him out of our train. The lead 944, now #2 in the train ahead of Chris, got into trouble in 10 and that made it Paul, Chris and me.

I then spent 2 laps behind Chris as Paul got away. I could see that the only place I had an edge on Chris was in 1, it just took me an extra lap to set it up. It was white flag so Chris fought hard for it and stayed alongside, but I scraped him off in 3. Finished 13 of 24.[/quote]

New and improved video. Packed full of exciting commentary. https://vimeo.com/98576669