SFR Laguna Regional May 3-4

[racer_tim]

Congrats to Josh who won group 5 with an overall win over ITS winner Doug Makashima in a great drive yesterday.

[JoshS]

Thanks Tim! Between the previous race at Infineon and this one, Doug and I (with Donna Gilio, who blew a motor this weekend, and Steve Borlik, who was at Thunderhill with NASA this weekend, I think) are having some really fun races.

I'm still hanging around ITR with a totally stock engine, which is one of the reasons why I'm still racing with the front-runners in ITS. But it's really fun this way. As long as both ITS and ITR track records continue to drop like this, why spend the big bucks to go faster?

I'll have video of this race posted this week to my website (www.godoggoracing.org). In the meantime, I recommend watching the group 5 race from Infineon a few weeks ago, that was a great race too.

[racer_tim]

Donna didn't have a good weekend. She got caught up in the Group 2 fiasco @ turn 2 on the first lap, when #83 tried a bonzai pass on the 3 leading Formula Atlantic cars, and took out 7 cars. They ended up only having about 13 minutes of green flag racing due to the cleanup and getting all of the cars cleared from the track. Donna's left front wing received damage in the incident. #83 DQ'd and put on a 6 race probation. That's what I heard.

I was in the tower both events, and we don't get to "watch" too much of the racing, so I'll look through the videos.

See you @ TH on May 23-25 with big blue doing worker trans, as well as being in the tower.

[JoshS]

Donna didn't have a good weekend. She got caught up in the Group 2 fiasco @ turn 2 on the first lap, when #83 tried a bonzai pass on the 3 leading Formula Atlantic cars, and took out 7 cars.

She actually got lucky and threaded the needle through that mess. Her wing damage came in turn 3 of the first lap. But despite that, she says she had a great weekend, since she set new qualifying records in both ITA and FE, and she managed to win the FE race despite the wing damage. But yeah, 13 minutes sucks.

See you @ TH on May 23-25 with big blue doing worker trans, as well as being in the tower.

I won't be there unfortunately ... no racing for me until the TH race at the end of July :-( I really need to find a way to do some suspension tuning before then though, hopefully I can at least pull that off.

[tom_sprecher]

Congrats, Josh.

While I'm here do you guys have a name for the "IT West Fest" or are we going with that?

[JoshS]

While I'm here do you guys have a name for the "IT West Fest" or are we going with that?

I think we're just going with that. The e-mail blasts have gone out (here too) with that name, so let's stick with it. If we get a lot of feedback suggesting we need to change it, we'll do it for next year.

[JoshS]

Thanks Tim! Between the previous race at Infineon and this one, Doug and I (with Donna Gilio, who blew a motor this weekend, and Steve Borlik, who was at Thunderhill with NASA this weekend, I think) are having some really fun races.

I'm still hanging around ITR with a totally stock engine, which is one of the reasons why I'm still racing with the front-runners in ITS. But it's really fun this way. As long as both ITS and ITR track records continue to drop like this, why spend the big bucks to go faster?

I'll have video of this race posted this week to my website (www.godoggoracing.org). In the meantime, I recommend watching the group 5 race from Infineon a few weeks ago, that was a great race too.

My videos are posted:

Round 1 from Infineon (30 mins, too exciting to edit!)
Round 2 from Laguna Seca (16 mins)