I'm going to see them at Lime Rock this weekend. This is a series I don't usually follow, but I want to learn. Can I get the cliffs notes? Wikipedia has already taught me about the classes. What else do I need to know?
I'm going to see them at Lime Rock this weekend. This is a series I don't usually follow, but I want to learn. Can I get the cliffs notes? Wikipedia has already taught me about the classes. What else do I need to know?
Patrick Long is the man. The races are great to watch and if you can walk through the paddoc. PWC gives fans great access.
Ive watched them at Mid Ohio a few times. It is awesome in person. The sound alone is worth the price of admission. The exhaust notes of lambos, mustangs, porsches, audis etc all mixing together. Walk through the paddock, thats great too. Also at one point i was walking back to the parking lot to restock the cooler and they were running the cars on a chassis dyno. You could walk right up and watch. They have full races on youtube if you want to watch some from last year.
We'll see you there. Look for the is300 sportx 
Several friends of ours are entered: Peter Cunningham, Patrick Long, Andrew Davis, Bryan Heitkotter, Lawson Aschenbach, Shea Holbrook and Johan Schwartz.
Tell them that you're also a fan of the mag and that should break the ice.
Look up Tom O'Gorman. He was SCCA rookie of the year a couple years ago and is a genuinely nice guy.
Peter isn't running this weekend. He gave his car to eversley because of the heavy damage eversley's car took last weekend.
Overall it's a great series to watch. Good racing. Cadillac has been the king in GT class for a while with johnny o'connell winning the last 4 years straight I think. TC is good racing too with some rides you wouldn't expect on the track like Accord coupes. GTS is in a weird state right now. GT4 cars mixed with the traditional pony cars. Nate Stacy is a great young talent to watch. He got a ride with Roush for this year and is doing a really good job getting up to speed. I've been watching him come up through SCCA and PWC for the last 3 years. Not bad for a 16 year old.
Lawson won today. Shea had a collision into the tires at turn 1, they said she was getting checked out as a precaution but was OK.
So what was up with four Porsches running their own mini-series, GT Cup? Every other run group seemed well matched except these four.
Lawson is a machine.
Can someone explain to me the GTS class? Specifically, how "equal" are the cars in performance? I have a personal reason that I'm asking.....
-Rob
Sesto we saw your cars but never got to meet.
That wreck was something awful. We were sitting on the outfield hill, saw the Aston Martin turn around in the run off, then saw - and heard - the Bentley go in full speed. They're reporting that both have been stabilized, hope to hear better news soon. It looked like Shea had a rough weekend, but Patrick Long did well. I still don't understand all of the classes and such, but collision excepted, it was a pretty good weekend at the track!
The wreck was bad. Rumors were floating in the paddock all day. I was just on the plane earlier that week with Palmer and Fong and the Bentley crew.
The Porsche GT group are the "GT CUP" which are alitte too quick for GTS, but a way of shaking up the GT/GTA race. "GT" are classified as Professional race drivers. "GTA" are Amateur drivers.
Our car was/is still giving us troubles and headaches. We hope we will be back at the top in the near future.
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