NHMS TeamDI Pro IT Race - April 10th

[lawtonglenn]

1. What a wonderful, sunny beautiful day, and an excellent,
competitive, fun race !!! Thanks everyone!

2. Rob Driscoll (25 ITS), Rob Breault (36 ITR), Nick Leverone (89 SM),
Anthony Ruddy (86 ITA), congrats on the win!!

3. Ben Phillips (33 ITR) bummer on the post race.. you were
very fun to run with, and I hope we do it again soon.

4. Jeff Henderson (23 ITS) I accept your apology for running
me off at the exit of the bowl for 2nd, we almost made it through

5. Matt Rooke (16 ITS) thanks for passing the bastard

6. Jimmy Locke (70 SM) I looked for you after, sorry we didn't meet...
At NHMS, passing under braking into 3 (DIVEBOMBING) is
generally a very risky maneuver, as the offline passing car
often contacts the online car that you are trying to pass, when
the forward car goes in to the apex.

It is a perfectly reasonable tactic to gain position, but you
have to assume (know) that the car being passed is aware that
you are there and going to try it, and it is incumbent upon the
passing car not to contact, which is very difficult to do there.

It is a perfectly UNREASONABLE tactic when you are being lapped.

Luckily I saw you in time, scratched my head, and allowed you
to divebomb through without contact, but it really wasn't to
be expected, since you were being lapped. Next time please
save the risky maneuvers for when it counts, ok?

7. Dominic Crugnale (29 ITR) congrats on the fastest laptime 1:13.1...
next time in qualifying I am going to go through
the barrier in 3 to 10 to shave off a few seconds too!

Again, what a great time!

Best
Glenn

[lawtonglenn]

Jeff...someone pointed out to me that my comment about accepting
your apology sounded sarcastic (especially when paired with the
bastard comment) <chuckle>...

that's not the case...we went in two wide, it was for a podium spot,
there just wasn't enough room at the exit, you understeered a bit,
we never touched, I went off, you apologized post race, I accepted...
It is no problem at all, and I look forward to many close races
with you in the future

Doc Breault...I put the 14 car up on the lift just now and found
that the James Bond smokescreen button I pushed to cover your
windshield in oily stuff was my ripped inner right rear CV boot
donating its charge to the environment (much of which found the
exhaust just below it)....it also explains why I wrongly thought
I had a flat and came in, it was just a well greased tire

Best!
Glenn

[Terry Hanushek]

TeamDI Pro IT Round 1 Results
New Hampshire Motorsports Park

ITR

Robert Breault - 33 laps
Ann Lamport-Hammitte - 33 laps
Robert Thiele - 33 laps

ITS

Rob Driscoll - 33 laps (overall winner)
Matt Rooke - 33 laps
Jeff Henderson - 33 laps

ITA

Anthony Ruddy - 32 laps
Phil Kogan - 32 laps
Matt Rowe - 28 laps

ITB

Ken Hubbard - 32 laps

ITC

None

SM

Nick Leverone - 33 laps
Steve Gorriaran - 33 laps
Jeff Harding - 33 laps

After a few safety car laps to clean up an Exxon Valdez-like oil spill, lots of tight, clean racing. A great way to start the season.

On to Lime Rock

Terry

[StephenB]

Any lap times posted anywhere? I really wish I had the day off so I could have come up... I'm sure as always it was great racing!

Big thanks to Darrell and Ben for getting my new seat to Raymond!

Stephen

[StephenB]

Any lap times posted anywhere? I really wish I had the day off so I could have come up... I'm sure as always it was great racing!

Big thanks to Darrell and Ben for getting my new seat to Raymond!

Stephen

[lawtonglenn]

Any lap times posted anywhere?

FASTEST LAP - RACE (1 minute +)
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Rob Breault ITR 15.073
Ben Phillips ITR 15.118
Rob Driscoll ITS 15.136
Glenn Lawton ITS 15.172
Jeff Henderson ITS 15.424
Bob Blake ITS 16.183
Rob Thiele ITR 16.320
Ann Lamport-Hammitte ITR 16.396
Nick Leverone SM 17.529
Steve Gorriaran SM 17.534
Steve Lewis SM 17.632
Jack Hall ITS 17.797
Russ Jones ITS 17.818
Jeff Harding SM 17.926
Andrzej Brzezinski SM 17.979
Phil Kogan ITA 18.232
Anthony Ruddy ITA 18.449
Keith Hammitte SM 18.626
Yiannis Tsiounis SM 19.188
Ken Hubbard ITB 19.199
Jimmy Locke SM 19.755
Matthew Rowe ITA 22.792
Christian Chandler ITA 43.575
Matt Rooke ITS na
Robert Beede ITS na
Dominic Crugnale ITR na
Windell Holmes ITA na
Rob Nimkoff ITR na


FASTEST LAP - QUALIFYING (1 minute +)
===============================

Glenn Lawton ITS 14.827
Rob Driscoll ITS 15.041
Russ Jones ITS 15.375
Ben Phillips ITR 15.399
Rob Breault ITR 15.650
Jeff Henderson ITS 15.650
Matt Rooke ITS 16.060
Bob Blake ITS 16.113
Ann Lamport-Hammitte ITR 16.191
Steve Gorriaran SM 16.330
Robert Beede ITS 16.574
Rob Thiele ITR 16.747
Nick Leverone SM 16.983
Andrzej Brzezinski SM 17.520
Jeff Harding SM 17.666
Dominic Crugnale ITR 17.933
Anthony Ruddy ITA 18.174
Steve Lewis SM 18.338
Phil Kogan ITA 18.541
Windell Holmes ITA 18.624
Keith Hammitte SM 18.841
Jack Hall ITS 18.934
Jimmy Locke SM 19.064
Yiannis Tsiounis SM 19.090
Ken Hubbard ITB 19.682
Rob Nimkoff ITR 19.970
Matthew Rowe ITA 20.666
Christian Chandler ITA 24.321

[JLawton]

1) What happened to Ben?
2) Did any ITers run STU?

[dtanthon]

I have the ITR trophies for Robert Breault, Ann Lamport-Hammitte, and Robert Thiele. I'll hand them out at LRP.

Thanks for a successful and fun round 1 of the 2010 season. Going to be a good one!

[almracing]

The ProIT Race was a great way to shake the cobwebs off. With 2 twenty minute qualifying sessions and a 45 minute race, there was plenty of track time.

Thankfully I made it thru the spins without damage. There were two occasions (qual and race) where I saw a red car sideways in front of me.

As for the race itself, it was fun to mix it up with a Miata for quite a while. Then I dropped the right rear wheel off track at the turn-in at turn 6 and that sent me spinning. My nice lead over Phil Kogan went away quickly. My apologies to the ITR/ITS leaders who were coming thru at that time. I pedaled as fast as I could up the hill. All the drivers were patient with me as the car got back up to speed. (I got back on line out of 6)

Phil and I got to battle a bit for the last 4 or 5 laps, with Phil taking a run on the inside at 3. But the CRX was able to power up the hill and that gave me the advantage to the checker.

It was a long day, but ended well.

[MMiskoe]

A quick search yeilded no fruit on the SWC weight for an E36 325. Anyone know where to look?

Give a call to Topeka, they should have archived copies of the WC rule sets. I got a copy from the mid-late 90's a few years back.