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I am camped out in the Volvo at RR, near the house so I got a wireless bleed. I doubt anyone else is online so I will dish out all the dirt for the weekend as it happens! Laura cooked a mess of shrimps tonight, I am sure their paddock area will be overrun by racoons and armadillos tonight…
Al
FARTBREF wrote:
[quote]I am camped out in the Volvo at RR, near the house so I got a wireless bleed. I doubt anyone else is online so I will dish out all the dirt for the weekend as it happens! Laura cooked a mess of shrimps tonight, I am sure their paddock area will be overrun by racoons and armadillos tonight…
Al[/quote]
Just watch out for the Low Country HURL!!!
:pinch:
Saturday race
1st David Herrington
2nd Damion Moses (started 9th)
3rd Robert push my daughter out of the way I need that trophy more than she does Patton. 
Results are up on My Laps:
Wish I was there and can’t wait to hear the lies!
Roebling was ablast. Hot though. Due to logistical mishaps earlier in the week I forced to head to Roebling with only Full depth Toyos. Not good. Thanks to Paul marshall I was able to secure a good set of shaved Toyos for a fair price. I qualied terrible as I was still on the full depth tires at that point. Qualified 9th:angry: During the race I was on a mission and may my way up to third. herring to an Skeen were a good bit from me and Skeen got hit by a Honda Challenge car handing me 2nd place.
Sunday I qualified 4th behind Herrington, Skeen and R. patton. I finshed in fourth were I started. Herrington won again, Robert was second and Skeen third.
David H. drove great all weekend and was the class of the field. We had some more new guys who all did well and some 1st and 2nd timers that are really coming up to speed quickly.
Herrington sweeps…
What the heck, at the rock and CMP we were glued together…I think he likes RR. Geiger and Chuck Taylor ran me like a dog today, I got a lot of excuses. It was a very clean race, amazingly. Qualifying sucked both days for me, dont think I cracked top ten sat and 9th sun. good food (thanks halls) good beer, good weather. I smoked my left front today, motor seems weaker, etc, etc
Yup, I got hit out of 2nd place on Saturday (not too much damage), though I probably could have held on if I had kept going (unidentified vibration…I went in).
Herrington and I did the first 1/2 lap side-by-side today and I lead the race up to about the 7/8ths mark when a Miata took away my space at the turn in of T8. After off roading and not hitting anything, I rejoined to finish third.
Oh well.
Anyone seen the results for our race? As far as I can tell, NASA’s posted results does not include the e30 group.
That was a whole lot of fun!!:woohoo: Saturday was a bit rough but Sunday turned out better for me as I was a bit more comfortable on the track and getting going a bit faster. RRR seems a deceptive track, does not look like much on a map but then you’re going so fast - WOW is all I can say. I had a blast racing with Jeff Puras and Steve Foushee on Sunday - as well as the Porche’s and Mazda’s. Thanks to everyone for encouragement and advice. Looking forward to CMP in July!
catsailor wrote:
Hope I didn’t confuse you going to the line on Sunday. I wasn’t sure what your hand gesture was there at the end. I was going to come up and push you across the line, but I couldn’t get there in time.B)
Sunday results
The Sunday race in midpack was just a complete blast! I started in row 3, next to Kelly. Unfortunately, he went backwards at the start with a tranny stuck in 2nd and retired. The top 4 checked out and I never saw them. Cullen was behind me but beat me to T1 and I never could get a fender on him after that.
However, I had a great race with Al and Craig (Fireman) Geiger. Swapped positions with Al a couple times, and had Geiger hounding me virtually the whole race. He gave me a couple good looks but couldn’t get alongside. Every time Al and I got past a 944 or Miata we’d put some distance on Fireman, but dammit a lap later he was back on my butt.
It was so much fun to hang those Miatas out to dry. A couple times Cullen or Al would get inside of one and we’d all trap him outside and freight-train on by.
We had a standing yellow situation the latter half of the race that prevented passes out of T9, so that cramped things a little bit.
Late in the race, I realized that Geiger wasn’t back there anymore, and found out later what happened. I’ll let Fireman write his own report, but I noticed that backed up his smack talk on Saturday. He threatened a 6th-place finish, but actually pulled down a 5. I saw him proudly lugging around a rusty brake disc inscribed with the results of labors. Great racing Craig!
I think Gasman listed Cullen as SpecE30-fun, but he had finished downgrading his car to SpecE30 components for this race, so it was a legit 5th for David.
Great weather, and it was really special to have so many SpecE30 cars in one place.
ctbimmer wrote:
[quote]
I think Gasman listed Cullen as SpecE30-fun, but he had finished downgrading his car to SpecE30 components for this race, so it was a legit 5th for David.
Great weather, and it was really special to have so many SpecE30 cars in one place.[/quote]
It was indeed a great race. Tom, Jeff and I mixed it up pretty good. This was the best racing I’ve ever encountered at any track.
I didn’t know David’s car was spec e30 legal now, the race results show it as "fun" on Sunday. Great job David! I’m not protesting Jon’s finish but I do hope to see side mirrors, Toyo’s and legal suspension parts on his car next time we race against each other.
Once again the Mid Atlantic guys steal our trophys and beer. Harrington drove two great races and upheld the MA dominance of SE racers at the SE tracks. Oh well…
Skeen drove two great races. Could he have passed Herrington on Saturday? Could he have kept the lead on Sunday? Bad traffic conditions were Skeen’s fate.
From a close watch from position 3 on Sunday it was Mike-the-Machine as he clicked off consistant laps in traffic with enough seperation on Herrington to keep passing attempts to a mininum. Great job Mike.We’ll get them next time.
Regards, Robert Patton
As my first event with the Southeast region and first ever trip to Roebling I have to say that it was a blast. The racing was great as was the down time in the paddock.
I had very low expectations for Saturday’s race using my entire 15 minutes of track experience to learn the track and try and put in a respectable qualifying time. I managed to go from a 1:34 in practice to a 1:28 in Saturday’s race. I started 14 and finished 11 with some great racing against Steve Foushee and a couple of others.
Sunday’s race I started 13 and finished 8. I managed to avoid Kelly and pick up a few spots on the start. I fought off Laura for a couple of laps but she squeezed by in turn one. I did a decent job keeping pace but she managed traffic better and eventually checked out on me. Marshell gave me a great race for the last couple of laps but I fought him off just long enough to get the checker. I managed a 1:26 in the race which, for my first trip to Roebling, was alright with me.
I have video of both days and will post them if I can find time to do it. I’ve only used Movie Maker once and never uploaded a video. We’ll see.
Patton wrote:
[quote]Once again the Mid Atlantic guys steal our trophys and beer. Harrington drove two great races and upheld the MA dominance of SE racers at the SE tracks. Oh well…
Skeen drove two great races. Could he have passed Herrington on Saturday? Could he have kept the lead on Sunday? Bad traffic conditions were Skeen’s fate.
From a close watch from position 3 on Sunday it was Mike-the-Machine as he clicked off consistant laps in traffic with enough seraration on Herrington to keep passing attempts to a mininum. Great job Mike.We’ll get them next time.
Regards, Robert Patton[/quote]
Thanks, you wanna leave your transmission in 4th gear for the rest of the season? Thanks!