Summit Point results

[Bill Miller]

Anybody have them? Wasn't able to make it down this weekend.

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MARRS #25 ITB Rabbit GTI (sold) | MARRS #25 HProd Rabbit
SCCA 279608

[erlrich]

No official results, but a few observations: from what I could see (flagging at #3 Sun & #10 Mon) there was some incredible racing both days. Sunday was sunny & dry, Monday was overcast & mixed wet/dry (and noticeably cooler), but still had some great racing. I heard from some of the other F&C workers that 400+ cars were there for the weekend!

The Miatas predictably put on good shows both days, but I think the best race of the weekend was the SRX7 race Monday. Cars 37 (Brian Zalner) & 73 (Ken Zalner) put on an awesome show, running nose to tail the whole race, with (I believe) Ken eventually taking the win. And man do those RX7s use the whole track - the top cars were consistently putting the right wheels in the gravel exiting 3, and all 4 wheels outside the curbing in 10!

The ITS races featured the usual suspects, with Ed York and Sam Asinugo battling it out both days, with (if I recall correctly) Ed taking the Sunday race in the dry, and Sam winning Monday in the wet. ITA was a little more interesting. Kirk Dohne won the Sunday race (in a 240SX no less), but on Monday there was this little ITA Miata that was flat out flying! He won ITA & overall (ITS/ITA group), consistently walking away from the 2 top bimmers on the straights. As you can guess there were many Miata drivers lining up to get the name of that guy's engine builder, and I even saw a few of the tech inspectors after the race asking him where they could get an engine like his http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif Seriously though, I would be interested to hear what, if anything, happened in tech with that car. The only way we could figure that he could possible outrun the BMW's is if he were on wets while the whole rest of field was on drys.

In ITB car #17 (Steve Hoffman?) was strong both days - I know he won Monday & believe he won Sunday also (it's sometimes hard to keep track of who's winning when you're on yellow flag!).

All in all it was a great weekend to watch/work, although I hear most of the real action occurred on Saturday (I had other obligations Saturday and couldn't make it), at least from the corner worker's standpoint!

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Earl R
Aspiring 240SX pilot

[ITSRX7]

Was the Miata possibly Mike VanSteenberg?

AB

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Andy Bettencourt
ITS RX-7 & Spec Miata 1.6 (ITA project)
New England Region R188967
www.flatout-motorsports.com (http://www.flatout-motorsports.com)

[timelapseracing]

The miata was being flown by Payton Wilson.

It was an interesting race - much fun. Wet track - drying toward the end of the session. Most of the field went out on wets, but some chose intermediate or dry, made for an interesting mix as the race went on.

Finished 13th in ITA and had a great time.

Jason.

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1989 ITA 240sx - #21 MARRS Series

http://www.mindspring.com/~timelapseracing

[mgyip]

Originally posted by erlrich:
No official results, but a few observations: from what I could see (flagging at #3 Sun & #10 Mon) there was some incredible racing both days.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the crash-fest on Saturday - I don't think a single morning qualifying session was incident free - IIRC, Group 2 (can't remember which cars they were - big bore?) rolled 2 cars and had a 3rd in the woods at turn 3. Heck, in ITS/ITA we had the King Rat rental Miata flip in 10 during morning session and Jim Linkenauger's GTi flip in 3 during the afternoon session.

ITS/ITA rec'd a rather stern warning from the officials about their on-track antics much to the chagrin of the drivers' representatives. I get the impression that the officials weren't impressed with any of the groups as a whole either.

All told it was a fun weekend - started Sunday in 10th and finished 11th. Started Monday in 13th and finished 7th.

Results are up now....

http://www.wdcr-scca.org/results/results.c.../index.htm?0408 (http://www.wdcr-scca.org/results/results.cgi/results/index.htm?0408)

[badal]

The ITA Miata driven by Payton was not the car under protest. That was the 61 SSM of Scott Brunk, the overall winnner of SM SSM on MOnday. The car was found to be compliant.

Payton ran under the lap record in qualifying, and was on Dirt Stockers, same as the BMW's. They may not have been the best choice as ITS/ITA was on a wet track with no precipitation, while SM/SSM was run partly in drizzle (for at least a minizle). Brunks's time on shaved Toyo's during the rain was faster than Paytons

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"Bad" Al Bell
ITC #3 Datsun 510
DC Region MARRS Series

[erlrich]

Originally posted by badal:
The ITA Miata driven by Payton was not the car under protest. That was the 61 SSM of Scott Brunk


Ahhhh... - I only remembered coming in for lunch and seeing a Miata #61 under the shed with its hood up, right after the IT race, and put two and two together (obviously came up with the wrong answer). Looking at the times for that race (1:39s), it's easier to see, it just looked so odd seeing that Miata running out front of the bimmers.

Btw, where were you paddocked Al? I was going to stop by and say hi, but didn't know what your # was, and didn't see any Miatas with "Bad Al" on the roof http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/smile.gif

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Earl R
Aspiring 240SX pilot

[badal]

Earl, you can't tell the players without a program.
I paddock by the chapel so i can pray my car does not break. It is Smurf blue, #3 in Earnhardt style.
"Bad Al" is on the windshield.

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"Bad" Al Bell
ITC #3 Datsun 510
DC Region MARRS Series