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Geo
11-09-2004, 07:35 PM
I've thrown together a quick photo page of pix I took at the ARRC. I have more to add, but that will be a bit later...

http://home.earthlink.net/~geo31/ARRC04/100_1535s.jpg



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George Roffe
Houston, TX
84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
http://www.nissport.com

Greg Amy
11-09-2004, 10:29 PM
Actually, it's:

http://home.earthlink.net/~geo31/ARRC04/20...C%20Photos.html (http://home.earthlink.net/~geo31/ARRC04/2004%20ARRC%20Photos.html)

Pellegrino Family
11-09-2004, 11:09 PM
George,
The pictures are fantastic!!! Sure makes me wish even more that we could have made it. And it looked so warm!!!! It's in the teens tonight here! BRRR. Time for ice racing soon.
BTW, did anyone get a picture of the field coming to start finish for the start of the ITB/ITC race? I'd like to get a copy for my office if anyone has one. Thanks.

Anubis
11-10-2004, 12:23 AM
The weather was amazing, chilly in the morning but only 1 sweatshirt over my whites was necessary. At about 9-9:30 it could come off. Towards the end of the day it had to go back on again but I was not complaining. I can only think somehow we'll pay for the wondeful weather during Petit and the ARRC next year.

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Lance Snyder
Atlanta Region F&C

No more the small one, the weak one, the frightened one.
Running from beatings, deflating.
I'm becoming more than a man. More than you ever were.
Driven and burning to rise beyond Jesus.

Geo
11-10-2004, 01:13 AM
Originally posted by GregAmy:
Actually, it's:

http://home.earthlink.net/~geo31/ARRC04/20...C%20Photos.html (http://home.earthlink.net/~geo31/ARRC04/2004%20ARRC%20Photos.html)

Thanks Greg. Not sure quite how I got the link to only one photo in there the first time.

I don't have the start of any race. I watched all the starts from the top of the esses.


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George Roffe
Houston, TX
84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
http://www.nissport.com

R2 Racing
11-10-2004, 02:24 AM
Nice pics, George!

I'm not seeing any love for my car though. http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/frown.gif

moto62
11-10-2004, 02:29 AM
Originally posted by R2 Racing:
I'm not seeing any love for my car though. http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/frown.gif

That's cause you decided to run up front with the fast boys, cuz. http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/biggrin.gif Nice job though.

Very nice pics George.
Ray

R2 Racing
11-10-2004, 12:08 PM
Originally posted by moto62:
That's cause you decided to run up front with the fast boys, cuz. http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/biggrin.gif Nice job though.

Yea, I guess there wasn't enough time to snap another pic of me between the leaders and you guys back there. http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif

Just kidding - nice meeting you, Ray!

Geo
11-10-2004, 04:37 PM
Originally posted by R2 Racing:
Nice pics, George!

I'm not seeing any love for my car though. http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/frown.gif

What car would that be? You don't include your name and I don't associate a name with the alias. I may have a photo or photos of your car and just haven't put them up yet.


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George Roffe
Houston, TX
84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
http://www.nissport.com

RSTPerformance
11-10-2004, 06:35 PM
Nice shots George!!! Good thing I didn't borrow the quick release... you would have been their all night. After the Enduro I parked it on the side of the track because I had no brakes to stop in pit lane (big hill!!!). I waited for a tow for about 45 minutes... I must say though it was the best wait I have ever had. The track employees at Road Atlanta are probably the best I have ever chated with. Also the corner workers at Road Atlanta were wonderful as well. So many of them stoped on the way back to the pits and said hi, chated for a bit and told me I better come back next year.

Thanks for the shots and memories!!!

Our pictures have been converted to disk format from what I understand and will be available possably as early as tomorrow... I will let you know once they are!!!


Raymond

Catch22
11-10-2004, 07:15 PM
Nice pictures George.
The best one for me is this one:

http://home.earthlink.net/%7Egeo31/ARRC04/...4/100_1610s.jpg (http://home.earthlink.net/%7Egeo31/ARRC04/100_1610s.jpg)

That was about 2 seconds before the red/blue miata spun and the red miata punted me into the pea gravel. Yep, I'm the Black/Red Civic between the 2 of them.

Any other pics of the #21 ITC car?

ITSRX7
11-10-2004, 10:17 PM
http://home.earthlink.net/%7Egeo31/ARRC04/...4/100_1559s.jpg (http://home.earthlink.net/%7Egeo31/ARRC04/100_1559s.jpg)

I MUST own this car!!! http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/smile.gif

Seriously, who is the owner? Everything is for sale!!!!

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)

oanglade
11-10-2004, 10:55 PM
Originally posted by Catch22:
Nice pictures George.
The best one for me is this one:

http://home.earthlink.net/%7Egeo31/ARRC04/...4/100_1610s.jpg (http://home.earthlink.net/%7Egeo31/ARRC04/100_1610s.jpg)

That was about 2 seconds before the red/blue miata spun and the red miata punted me into the pea gravel. Yep, I'm the Black/Red Civic between the 2 of them.

Any other pics of the #21 ITC car?




And that's our red/blue Miata with my partner at the wheel. Sorry for messing your race.

We were able to do a pit lane alignment and go on to finish pretty much were we started, so all was not lost for us.


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Ony Anglade
ITA Miata
Sugar Hill, GA

Geo
11-10-2004, 11:20 PM
Originally posted by RSTPerformance:
Nice shots George!!! Good thing I didn't borrow the quick release...

That would have been fine by me. I'm really sorry I didn't think about loaning you one the night before while you weren't thrashing. It really helps with driver changes.

It was good meeting you both. I look forward to next year.


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George Roffe
Houston, TX
84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
http://www.nissport.com

Geo
11-10-2004, 11:22 PM
Originally posted by Catch22:
Nice pictures George.
The best one for me is this one:

http://home.earthlink.net/%7Egeo31/ARRC04/...4/100_1610s.jpg (http://home.earthlink.net/%7Egeo31/ARRC04/100_1610s.jpg)

That was about 2 seconds before the red/blue miata spun and the red miata punted me into the pea gravel. Yep, I'm the Black/Red Civic between the 2 of them.

Any other pics of the #21 ITC car?



I've actually got a photo of the two of them together in the kitty litter.

I'll look for more photos of your car. I think I may have some, but I'm not sure if they are in sharp focus.

[edit] Oh, and I gave the driver of the red Miata a ride back to the paddock. Once I got all the openning photos I wanted I figured I'd offer. Long walk back from there and a long time to sit at the corner station. Nice young man.

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George Roffe
Houston, TX
84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
http://www.nissport.com

[This message has been edited by Geo (edited November 10, 2004).]

Geo
11-10-2004, 11:26 PM
Ony, I kept meaning to come down and introduce myself. Kept getting sidetracked. I apologize for not getting down to meet you.


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George Roffe
Houston, TX
84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
http://www.nissport.com

lateapex911
11-10-2004, 11:54 PM
Originally posted by Geo:
.....Nice young man.




Geeez Geoge...when you put it THAT way you make it sound like your OLD or something! Remember..the waitress CARDED you at the bar!

Some nice shots in there BTW, of course, I expected that!

Any human interest shots in your travels?


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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
[email protected]

Catch22
11-10-2004, 11:58 PM
Andy B.,
Thats Tom Bolenbaugh's 510. Its a beautiful car and I doubt he'd part with it. He actually works for Nissan and built it himself. It's very quick and so is he. We've had some great races together.

Geo,
I'd love to see some of those pictures when you get a chance. You have some really good stuff.

Ony,
Your spin wasn't what got me. I identified it pretty early as your partner put his right rear tire up on the curb and locked it up under braking. I knew the spin was coming (and if you look closely at Geo's photo you can see the ATS car is already countersteering). I got checked up and had plenty of room to go around on the wide curbing driver's right, but the car behind me either didn't see the spin or didn't have time to react because he smacked me pretty hard, sending me bouncing off into the gravel.

What a fun race. Thats whats so great about long enduros. You can have some issues and still come out well in the end if you keep working at it.

Scott, already looking forward to ARRC 2005.

[This message has been edited by Catch22 (edited November 10, 2004).]

R2 Racing
11-11-2004, 01:31 AM
George - I was in the bright orange #73 ITA Integra. I was running around in the race somewhere in the 5th to 7th area.


Kevin
RuckRacing ITA Integra

Geo
11-11-2004, 02:04 AM
Scott and Kevin, I'm afraid I don't have any photos. I was sure I did. I did delete some photos that didn't turn out for one reason or another (half in the frame or very fuzzy). They may have been among them. I'm sorry.

Jake, I am getting old. I was probably twice as old as that young man. Funny that I got carded at dinner.


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George Roffe
Houston, TX
84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
http://www.nissport.com

Despr8dave
11-11-2004, 11:09 AM
Kevin, I have a few pics of you coming out of the "s"'s if you'd like my amatuerish shots.
Scott, so far I have a great fuzzy shot of the back half of yours, but I have about 150 more to go through.
I tried to get as many of the "forum" cars as I could, so if any one else would care for some, just let me know and I'll email what I have.
David

R2 Racing
11-11-2004, 11:19 AM
sweeeeeeet...

kevin @ ruckracing.com

no spaces of course, blah, blah

Thanks in advance!

gsbaker
11-11-2004, 11:58 AM
Just a few. I have more but couldn't ID all the drivers.

Notes:
- Just a pocket digital snapshot camera, so the zoomed shots are fuzzy.
- Pit shots are large, about 1MB.

http://www.isaacdirect.com/html/OtherPages...4/ARRC2004.html (http://www.isaacdirect.com/html/OtherPages/Photos/ARRC2004/ARRC2004.html)

Gregg

planet6racing
11-11-2004, 12:22 PM
The explanation, video, and pictures will be up soon of my experience. Please be patient, there's a lot of stuff to cover!

I'll let you all know when it is up. Trust me, it will be worth the wait!

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Bill
Planet 6 Racing
bill (at) planet6racing (dot) com

gsbaker
11-11-2004, 12:31 PM
Originally posted by planet6racing:
Trust me, it will be worth the wait!

Heh, heh. This ought to be good. http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/biggrin.gif

G

Geo
11-11-2004, 01:04 PM
Originally posted by gsbaker:
Heh, heh. This ought to be good. http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/biggrin.gif

G



Oh yeah! http://forum.e46fanatics.com/images/smilies/woot.gif

BTW, I've added 6 new photos to my page.

Bill, sorry I don't have any of you there. All the photos I have of you turned out to be fuzzy. http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/frown.gif


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George Roffe
Houston, TX
84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
http://www.nissport.com

Super Swift
11-11-2004, 01:14 PM
Hey gang
Well I was driving the red 72 SM. Bad day.

Catch22 or 21 for the weekend
Sorry for getting into you. I did not intend to but I did and I am sorry for it. I knew I was in trouble when I saw the red/blue 71 miata sideways though your windshield. I had already turned in to be on your inside at track out. It happened real fast. I am yet to see my in car video and I don’t know if I want to.

Ony
I hope Stanley Mitchem driver of the 71 car is okay. I did what I could but we hit very hard. I have talked to Stanley a few times in the past so I hope there is no hostility between us now.

George Roffe
“Nice young man.” Ha. I doubt Scott or Stanley feel I am nice.
I am however Grateful!! Thank you very much for the ride. That comes also from my crew (sister in law) who was worried (no radio). My dad and brothers would have preferred to make me walk after hurting the car like that.
If you’re twice as old as me should I call you Mr. Roffe? What are you early forties late thirties? Not twice.
I would like to see the other photo. Hopefully it doesn’t make me look like the idiot I feel like.
Good luck George in building the 944 and I hope your friend lets you take his prod car for a ride now and then. Shame it’s not going to race in ITA next year.

Ben Robertson

The family cars (I have only raced the slow ones)
SM #27 1.6
ITS 944 sold (1994 ARRC enduro winner)
ITB 320i dead and sold
ITB Suzuki Swift dead and sold
ITS e36 (2003 ARRC enduro winner)

Catch22
11-11-2004, 01:50 PM
"“Nice young man.” Ha. I doubt Scott or Stanley feel I am nice."

Don't worry about it. Thats just how things go in racing. The #71 car made a mistake in heavy traffic... And there you have it. Nobody's "fault" when its all said and done. Amazingly enough I was in the middle and managed to come out of it relatively unscathed. I'm not sure if its luck or the fact that I saw it coming and took early evasive action, but I'll take it. That could have easily tangled up all 3 of us.

The only thing I'll say is that I was disappointed that some people (not anybody in particular... a bunch of anybodies) were racing so hard in the first few laps of a 3 hour race with almost 70 cars on the grid. Thats a recipe for a bunch of bent metal, which is what we got.
Alot of folks out there need to calm down a bit.

OTLimit
11-11-2004, 01:57 PM
Originally posted by Catch22:
The only thing I'll say is that I was disappointed that some people (not anybody in particular... a bunch of anybodies) were racing so hard in the first few laps of a 3 hour race with almost 70 cars on the grid. Thats a recipe for a bunch of bent metal, which is what we got.
Alot of folks out there need to calm down a bit.

Actually, it was better than I expected. In at least one past ARRC Enduro with the 'entire' field, the green was thrown from basically pit-out. That seemed to help keep everyone from charging down the hill and crashing on the front straight.

Anyone else remember the year that the yellow BMW did an end-o roll down the front straight on the start? There have been some very bad crashes on enduro starts because of very bad errors in judgement.


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Lesley Albin
Over The Limit Racing
Blazen Golden Retrievers

Catch22
11-11-2004, 03:12 PM
Oh yeah, I'm aware of that stuff. And I agree that the start went better than I expected. But there were still way too many low percentage passes and "forcing your way through" in the first 5 to 10 laps of this years race. After that things seemed to spread out and settle down a bit (for the most part).

Geo
11-11-2004, 06:01 PM
Originally posted by Super Swift:
George Roffe
“Nice young man.” Ha. I doubt Scott or Stanley feel I am nice.

If they harbor ill feelings, they shouldn't be racing. It's not like you were doing something stupid or beating on them before hand. Things happen in racing. You just accept it.


Originally posted by Super Swift:
I am however Grateful!! Thank you very much for the ride. That comes also from my crew (sister in law) who was worried (no radio). My dad and brothers would have preferred to make me walk after hurting the car like that.

Hehe. The ride was my pleasure. Didn't seem right to make you sit there for 3 hours, especially when I was changing positions to view from anyway. I'm especially glad since you didn't have a radio. It's awful to have to wait for word when your car doesn't come around.


Originally posted by Super Swift:
If you’re twice as old as me should I call you Mr. Roffe?

You'd better not.


Originally posted by Super Swift:
What are you early forties late thirties?

I'll be 44 on the 21st. Coincidentally, I'm running my first half marathon that day. PARTY! Also running my first marathon in January.


Originally posted by Super Swift:
I would like to see the other photo.

Your wish is my command.

http://home.earthlink.net/~geo31/ARRC04/100_1611cs.jpg


Originally posted by Super Swift:
Good luck George in building the 944 and I hope your friend lets you take his prod car for a ride now and then. Shame it’s not going to race in ITA next year.

Thanks Ben. It was a pleasure to meet you.

Yeah, I wish my buddy wasn't having his car converted. We'd have fun in ITA. That said, my other business partner is in the process of building his ITA SE-R. It's slow going though. I have a feeling I'll have to do a fair amount of work on it. That's OK though since he's crewed for me at every event I've gone to. I owe him bigtime. We'll have to goodies on the car next year from NISsport.

As for my 944, the weather has finally cooled off in Texas and I'm already back to work on it. Hope to begin paint prep pretty soon.


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George Roffe
Houston, TX
84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
http://www.nissport.com

Geo
11-11-2004, 06:04 PM
Oh, and as long as I'm posting photos here, here's an OT one for Lesley. My golden boy in one of the funnier moments....

http://home.earthlink.net/~geo31/Loki.JPG


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George Roffe
Houston, TX
84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
http://www.nissport.com

lateapex911
11-11-2004, 08:52 PM
I checked out the Isaac site, and was happy to see my car was NOT pictured with a broomstick being administered! However, I do have one observation:

It looks like Bill blew the budget on the umbrella girl, and ran out of money for a steering wheel!

Call me crazy, but I THINK most of the fast ITA guys use one. Better budget for it next year!

Bill, anything to add???

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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
[email protected]

R2 Racing
11-11-2004, 11:30 PM
Nice pic of my ugly mug on grid there Gregg!

Hmm, so fast ITA guys have umbrella girls, huh? So maybe THAT's where those extra two seconds are hiding!

planet6racing
11-12-2004, 12:32 AM
Actually, no, it's the slow guys that have the umbrella girls. I need something to distract the faster people!!!

As far as the steering wheel goes, you'll all get to read about it shortly...

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Bill
Planet 6 Racing
bill (at) planet6racing (dot) com

Anubis
11-12-2004, 01:23 AM
Good meeting you Bill, come on down next year!

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Lance Snyder
Atlanta Region F&C

No more the small one, the weak one, the frightened one.
Running from beatings, deflating.
I'm becoming more than a man. More than you ever were.
Driven and burning to rise beyond Jesus.

RSTPerformance
11-12-2004, 02:05 AM
http://www.rstperformance.com/pictures/rstpictures2004season/ARRC2004/DSCN1950.JPG
Our Umbrella girls, only without the umbrellas...

Anyway... 216 pictures for your viewing pleasure are now up on our website... they are thumbnails so you can click the ones you want to see closer (to make them larger).

Here is a link to the correct page so you don't have to search them out http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif

www.rstperformance.com/pictures/rstpictures2004season/ARRC2004/ARRC2004.htm (http://www.rstperformance.com/pictures/rstpictures2004season/ARRC2004/ARRC2004.htm)

Be warned all 216 pictures are on one page, so if you have dial up you might want to click the link before lunch and come back to see them when you are done munching on the secret go-fast racing food...

From the RST Performance Racing gang

gsbaker
11-12-2004, 08:46 AM
Hey Ray, how about a few shots of your girls at Paddy's?

G

emerilnut
11-12-2004, 12:57 PM
Originally posted by Super Swift:

Ony
I hope Stanley Mitchem driver of the 71 car is okay. I did what I could but we hit very hard. I have talked to Stanley a few times in the past so I hope there is no hostility between us now.


Ben..

No hard feelings AT ALL. I'm sorry that I made such a rookie mistake so early in the race. We were able to continue, but it kills me that I ended your race. I'm so sorry.

I know that we spoke on the phone earlier this year, but what a way to "meet."

BTW, do you still need that diff?

RSTPerformance
11-12-2004, 05:56 PM
G-

It is probably good that we didn't have the camera... or maybe we should have, I am sure it would have generated some interesting shots... more interesting shots than the ones we were downing http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif

Hope it was entertaining!!! next year we will remember the camera at the drinking opps I mean social gatherings http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif

Raymond

moto62
11-13-2004, 01:06 AM
Originally posted by gsbaker:
Hey Ray, how about a few shots of your girls at Paddy's?

G

I don't think Raymond or the girls have any recollection of that night. Let's keep it that way. http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/biggrin.gif
Ray

lateapex911
11-13-2004, 01:35 AM
Don't you mean "the blooming idiot" and his brother "the sissie"? http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif

Points to those who weren't there and can identify which one refers to which one as which one and why....ok, the why is obvious I guess!

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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
[email protected]

[This message has been edited by lateapex911 (edited November 13, 2004).]

RSTPerformance
11-13-2004, 02:43 PM
LOL...

Super Swift
11-15-2004, 12:58 PM
Originally posted by emerilnut:

BTW, do you still need that diff?



Thanks. But, we already got one. When I called we need it extra speedy.

I am glad your okay. I am surprised you drove away and even more that you finished the race.

oanglade
11-19-2004, 07:17 PM
George,

That's OK, I'll be there next year, driving or crewing. I live too close not to be there.

http://Forum.ImprovedTouring.com/it/smile.gif

I'm just sorry that I never met you at TWS, when I lived and raced in Texas.

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Ony Anglade
ITA Miata
Sugar Hill, GA