2013 NARRC Runoffs @ Lime Rock Park!

[Dave Zaslow]

Group 1 ITR-S-B.....

Fred Fox's spinning ITR BMW in front of me

DZ

[gran racing]

Ouch.

What were the B results?

[StephenB]

Ouch.

What were the B results?

ITR
Matt Rooke
Rob Breault
Rob Nimkoff

ITS
Darrel Stein
Tim Dugan
Robert Blake

ITB
Travis Washay
Raymond Blethen
Charlie Gerundo

[gran racing]

Gary left you enough room and that's where you want to be in the wet anyway. My right front will be just on the right of the yellow blend line. Way more grip than on the left portion of the track. The car sure did snap around quickly. Just curious, did you disconnet the rear bar before going out?

Harsh with car repairs. I totally feel your pain. The earlier LRP repairs cost me over $1,000 not including any cosmetic fixes. Now motor issues. So much for having an actual budget to race. Maybe we should start racing lawn mowers or something like that? lol

How close was Raymond to Travis?

[lawtonglenn]

.

Here is a short video of the ITR/ITS/ITB start, first from my car 14, and then
from Bob Blake's 82 a few positions back.

https://vimeo.com/75254172

https://vimeo.com/lawtonglenn

In my video you can see Darrel Stein appearing to lock up his brakes and moving
straight into Stephen's RX8, and as they curl left, I dive right.

In Bob's video you can see Darrel and Stephen curling left, and me diving right and
staying out of it. On the tiny screen at the track it looked like the red S2000 might
have touched Fred Fox to get him spinning, but looking carefully now it appears
to me that he just locked his rears and spun himself... a shame for both Fred and Dave

Alas, my car died on lap 4...at the time thought it was a blown engine, but found
that it was just the fuse to the ignition system ... now we have to find what caused
the fuse to blow.

We had a terrific weekend nonetheless!!... great times, great people, great fun! ...
CONGRATS to John Farbman on a well earned NARRC win! Perhaps I will be able to
challenge again next year

.

[StephenB]

Thanks for posting the start! I don't think Darrell locked up the brakes, I think that was smoke from tire to tire contact. I think he may have been spooked when Geoff came up the inside, and you simply can't fit three wide through big bend. It is what it is, we both fell back a ways but worked our way back up to the front. The double yellow helped that though!


Stephen

[mossaidis]

Gary left you enough room and that's where you want to be in the wet anyway. My right front will be just on the right of the yellow blend line. Way more grip than on the left portion of the track. The car sure did snap around quickly. Just curious, did you disconnet the rear bar before going out?

Harsh with car repairs. I totally feel your pain. The earlier LRP repairs cost me over $1,000 not including any cosmetic fixes. Now motor issues. So much for having an actual budget to race. Maybe we should start racing lawn mowers or something like that? lol

Regarding Garry's move, he did admit that he was looking for the dry line. It just seemed like he didn't stop coming over until I was a foot away from the yellow, frustrating since I didn't know how far he was coming over.

It started raining when we were in grid so we didn't have time to change anything.

[StephenB]

I would have done the same thing if I was Gary. Looks like you carried a little to much speed along with bumping the curb which caused the back to be unsettled. To be honest I think I would have carried the same amount of speed as you did so I may have had the same result. I feel bad for ya, great fast car... You definetly had the pace for a win!

Congrats on the championship.

[mossaidis]

That sucked. It did come around very suddenly!! And it looked like the track was drying. I didn't get to see the PM race but you looked good in the morning race. A couple of more laps and you could have made a race out of it.

But congrats on the the NARRC Championship!!

I would have done the same thing if I was Gary. Looks like you carried a little to much speed along with bumping the curb which caused the back to be unsettled. To be honest I think I would have carried the same amount of speed as you did so I may have had the same result. I feel bad for ya, great fast car... You definetly had the pace for a win!

Congrats on the championship.

Thanks guys!