I went to Road Atlanta yesterday for a 1/2 day test and tune to "break-in the new engine. I got to the track late, but in time for the afternoon sessions. The paddock marshall told me to park in front of the Road Atlanta Office since I was only there for the afternoon. I didn't really pay attention to who I parked next to but they were running a Mazda RX8.

The schedule had me running my ITS BMW in Group D with all the BIG CARS (GT1, GT2, GTA etc.) kind of scary! I noticed the RX8 pulled out and headed to the grid just ahead of me. We pulled out on the track and I did a great job of following him until he hit the back straight! He hit the GO PEDAL and TOOK OFF! I think he lapped me about 10 minutes later!

I stayed out for the whole session and when I returned to my paddock area the driver was getting out of the Mazda. It was John Andretti getting out of a current GrandAM GT RX8! His son Jarett was also "suited up" with him in his paddock area.