St. Louis Region Regional/National/IT Tour

[SLUF]

Forecast is calling for upper 90s to near 100. I hope our new radiator helps!

[brprok81]

Thanks to everybody who came out. Results for both days have been posted to mylaps. Hope to see everybody at MAM in two weeks.

[IPRESS]

HUGE ATTAWAY to the STL Region. As I told the grid workers on Sunday before the electrical shebang hit us, "Saturday was the best run SCCA racing day I have ever seen." Everything went on time or even early. The whole thing including the DASH race was done in record time. Never ever raced both days 3 states away and been home for Dateline!
CONGRATS TO JEFF (a good improvedtouring.com guy) on his first time as a Race Chair........... he nailed it. (He planned right by getting an experienced crew who did a super job.)

PS: Jeff let the STL workers know they hit a grand slam this past weekend.


Mac

[SLUF]

+1 on the job done by the STL staff this weekend. (Even you Jeef!)

The IT7 report is as follows. Four entries in class both days. Miracle of miracles I took my first ever class win when Matt's car ran into mechanical troubles mid race on Saturday! I had my problems in qualifying and started from the rear. I managed to run down the rest of the class and finish 11/22 overall. I wonder how come I didn't drive like this at Hallett! The DASH race was a blast but I made some stupid moves at the end of the race which cost me a shot at the podium positions. It was fun though!

We made a bad tire choice for Trey during Sunday qualifying sending him out on drys when wets would have been better. He started from the rear (same as dad, see a trend here?) but worked his way up to second in class and 16/20 overall. If our math is correct his second place points will lock up the MIDIV IT7 IT Tour title.

A really good weekend for us with no bent sheet metal and a couple of highlights for the POS-7 team!

[ebb]

Bud, is Trey planning on racing in any more IT tour races this year? I think he is at 48pts, with 3 races left. Lynn Lamb has 19 pts, Curt does too. They could catch him if they win all remaining races. Charles and I have 12 each, we could potentially tie him if he does not race. I realize these are all long shots, but if Trey comes to one more race that should definitely seal it. Would have been a done deal if they had not have added the 2 races in Topeka.

I had a great time in St. Louis and plan on going back in Ocotober. Hopefully we continue to have decent turnout for IT 7.

Matt

[SLUF]

We are kind of hoping no one driver is going to all three events left on the Tour schedule and win each one of them. We really have shot our racing travel budget and with Trey starting school next week puts a bit of a strain on us to make any additional out of town events.

Adding that weekend in HPT was a real bummer for Trey since we probably won't be able to go but them's the breaks. I understand the need for the organizers to get an increased car count for revenue and certainly applaud the decision but it kind of sucks for those of us that planned our travel schedules around the initial published calender. I realize this is an expensive hobby and we'll just roll with it for now.

Either Curt or Lynn would have to win out to get the title. I am pretty sure Curt is not going to any of the three remaining events. I do not know if Lynn is either. You can win out and tie as well as Charles Casteel. Seems I may have to make some further "arrangements" with some KC area IT7 racers to keep this from happening! (JK of course............................or am I?)

I did have a great time meeting up with you and being on track watching your tailights sail off in the distance. I need to ask Scott if he would have sold the car had he known it was that fast!

[ebb]

Well I don't think you need to worry about me, I probably will not make all the races anyway. That and I would have to win against Scott Peterson, who is going to be at mam and topeka I am sure. Charles will probably go to topeka as well.

I bent my panhard bar on saturday, which caused the axle to shift so much that the driveshaft was rubbing the tunnel in some corners. That is not why I was flagged, it was a broken exhaust pipe dragging. I straightened the bar before the IT tour race but it was bent again after the race. I need to get that fixed asap and remake some exhaust parts.

Matt