Labor Day Double at Summit Point

[CRallo]

Awesome event, but a busy one for me...


Skipping to the punch line for now, apparently I'm not done with IT just yet!

[ajmr2]

Excellent race, Spencer, always great to see someone succeed with persistence and sheer determination. So was something wrong with the car at MARRS 11? I watched the M12 ITB race from the carousel before I headed home early, hot and tired from the previous 2 days of racing and wanting to save something for MARRS 13. (Excuses, excuses!)

Congrats!

[CRallo]

Thanks Art!! We changed drivers on you though

That said, Spencer did well considering he is new there and new to that car and improved as the weekend went on... I coached and crewed for him for the whole weekend and on Sunday evening he asked me to run the Monday B race.

Had a great race and I was very grateful for the opportunity! Even the people I beat thanked me for being there !! Great people. I hopefully will get to make a habit of running this thing, but we'll see...

[ajmr2]

Sorry Chris, my bad. I just looked at the driver list from MARRS 11 since MARRS 12 was not posted on MyLaps when I commented. Definitely hope to see you again! Perhaps MARRS 13?

[CRallo]

That's okay, even the announcers were confused!

[Knestis]

Chris also modestly doesn't mention how close he was to the B lap record. That's not screwing around.

For my part, I was super-sad to not be in that ITB brawl. The Jetta TDI is really cool and all but the MARRS B field is still some of the best pure road racing on the planet.

K

EDIT - Gratuitous "really cool car" pic follows, courtesy of Mike Kelley

[gran racing]

For my part, I was super-sad to not be in that ITB brawl.

How do you think I feel?? Glad you had fun with it Chris and the years of development were proven to Spencer.

Did they finally give Jeff U credit for his lap record? What was your fast time Chris?

[CRallo]

Chris also modestly doesn't mention how close he was to the B lap record. That's not screwing around.

For my part, I was super-sad to not be in that ITB brawl. The Jetta TDI is really cool and all but the MARRS B field is still some of the best pure road racing on the planet.

K

EDIT - Gratuitous "really cool car" pic follows, courtesy of Mike Kelley

Thanks Kirk, not even sure what my official fast time was to be honest... As soon as I got clear I eased up a bit and decided not to go for broke, all I know is that multiple .29's came up on the lap timer.

I was the only B car to not get lapped... That made the last lap very lonely, I drove it as a cool off as there was no need to keep on.

Had a great freaking race the first few laps!! Beth didn't give me an inch and nor did Tom, he kept us both very honest! I gauged the competition, made my final move on the 4th lap or so and managed to get clear by the end of that lap.

I was there crewing and coaching for Spencer Taylor who bought the car from Dave... I drove the car a couple sessions on Friday to gather data and good video to use to work with Spencer as well as check/adjust the setup. The car was very close, I only made three small tweaks. ----> thank you Kessler Engineering!

After the race on Sunday, Spencer asked me to take over driving duties for the ITB race on Monday... of course I obliged! "Go kick some ITB ass!" he said, so I did. And he is very happy to have me doing so on his behalf while we develop him as driver. He even picked up the entry fee...

I am very grateful to be working for such a generous team player!!

How do you think I feel?? Glad you had fun with it Chris and the years of development were proven to Spencer.

Did they finally give Jeff U credit for his lap record? What was your fast time Chris?

Yes, I believe so... He is credited with a 128.3X. Super fast!! Supposedly it was on a cool day with a tow... as many good records are set. As I said above, I'm not even sure what my official time was, as much as I was tempted to try for it, that wasn't why I was there and it was only my second day in the car...

[Gregg]

Did they finally give Jeff U credit for his lap record? What was your fast time Chris?

Finally? The DC Region website has listed Jeff's ITB track record 1:28.19 since he got it in 2010:

http://wdcr-scca.org/ClubRacing/MARR...9/Default.aspx

Chris's fast time was a 1:29.30

Results from the weekend are here: http://wdcr-scca.org/ClubRacing/Even...6/Default.aspx