John Stim Memorial Regional 6/19/2004 MoHu LRP

Surprise - I will be coming! The shop worked all night at got the car finished - blew me away! Kudos go to KD Rotary in PA.

Hopefully all ready to race.
 
Uh oh..no time to buff....feel free to shoot the right side, no clay embedded there (yet). (If I happen to get close to the action, that is, like when they lap me!
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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
[email protected]

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Doug (16v)

Take a close look at the lettering on our cars...

Thanks for all the pictures of everyone!!! You take great pictures and I love being able to look back at them every once in a while
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Raymond
 
So, how did the day go?

(It is SO cool to sit there with F1 cars blasting by 30 feet away at 160mph...)
 
Incredibly!!!! At least for group 6:

Originally posted by Jake:
... IMHO I'd MUCH prefer a 45 car field to a 20 car field ANY day.
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I got my way, well sort of. Our SM/ITA run group 6 had 49 cars at the beginning of the day. Instead of splitting the group into 6a and 6b, they did a wonderful thing and got special permission to run a group of 46. Since we couldn't qualify with 49 cars, they ran split the qualifying session, which worked great. In fact 10 minutes of 20 cars works MUCH better than 20 minutes of 40 cars when it comes to trying to get a single good lap. The only downside was that the 3 slowest cars in qualifying couldn't get into our run group - but they let them run with the historic guys at the end of the day. Even that worked well since that let them (probably rookies) run in a smaller crowd of more defensive drivers. So let me be the first to say - good job officials!! If the run groups were aligned slightly different, we probably could have kept them together.
 
Yes, in the morning, we had a registered count of 50 or so, but that dropped at Q time, and in the end it worked very well.

Our group, (6) was the biggest issue numbers-wise, and having the SMs in there made it super important to get a good Q lap. I didn't, and if I had gone 1 second faster I would have moved up nearly 20 spots! Wow!

I think that MoHud exceeded expectations...

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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
[email protected]

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Originally posted by lateapex911:
I think that MoHud exceeded expectations...
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I agree totally. On the way home, Kim and I talked about the qualifying scenario and how everyone got to race even if you did not qualify for the group. You got your track time for your money. Well done I say
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Ray
 
Sound as thuogh every thing was great.Sorry we couldn't make it.Had to work a real job.how did all the other IT groups go. I heard Paula put the Miata into the wall,Is she OK (Andy). Both cars should be at NHIS. The 240 should go well & Ill still run the Miata in 5th or 6th. See you soon,
Dan
 
Originally posted by lateapex911:
...if I had gone 1 second faster I would have moved up nearly 20 spots! Wow!
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Wow indeed! I was looking over the results sheet and there were 24, yes 24 cars that had fast lap times that were within 1 second of my fastest lap. That's good racing!!! In fact there wasn't a single lap that I wasn't battling someone for position.
 
Originally posted by Jake:
Wow indeed! I was looking over the results sheet and there were 24, yes 24 cars that had fast lap times that were within 1 second of my fastest lap. That's good racing!!! In fact there wasn't a single lap that I wasn't battling someone for position.
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Nice job on the new Hoosiers, Jake.

My post mortem revealed the reason I was spooked and thought the new Hoosiers were "pretty loose". No front sway bar! Arrrg! I wonder what THAT is worth time-wise?? (and..more importantly, grid-wise.
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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
[email protected]

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Wow - you kicked butt for not having a front sway bar. I'd be too scared to even try to drive mine without one. I can tell you that I wouldn't be going straight for long. So for now, I think we're neck and neck in points for the NER ITA-LITE title!
 
Jake - you'll have to see the video! Going 3 wide with the SM in between us was pretty intense.

Great racing all day. I really enjoyed watching the Historic race and the Mini keeping up with the big boys. Very cool!

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Dave Gran
NER #13 ITA
'87 Honda Prelude
 
Jake,
Glad you enjoyed the weekend. I was able to get a waiver on the 38 cars because I told the Exec Steward that we were dealing with two of our best groups as far as drivers were concerned. We had permission for both group 5 & 6. The way we split the groups was the best with the numbers involved. any other way would have meant more than 3 not qualifying. It would also have created havoc with reserved numbers. BTW every group had a 15 minute qualifying session including 6 and 6A. It would not have come off if groups 2,5 and 6 had not run such a clean race. Congratulations to all of you.
Total count for weekend 311 cars.
Of that about 142 were IT,SM or SS.

Jack
 
Originally posted by JackH55:
Jake,
I was able to get a waiver on the 38 cars because I told the Exec Steward that we were dealing with two of our best groups as far as drivers were concerned.
Jack
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Did they measure the length of your nose before and after you said that Jack?? (wink, wink, kidding.... Kidding!!)

In any case, and I know I don't go back that far, but I have to think that that waiver is one of the highest SCCA has ever granted for Lime Rock.

The more I look at this, the better MoHud looks....


And regarding the lap times, in a field of 46 ITA/SM cars (!!!!) the slowest car was only off the winners pace by under 6 seconds! And the track looks like it might have been about a half second slow or so. If you went a 1:05.0, you had 6 guys within 1 second in front of you, and 15 guys within 1 second behind you! And if you went a 1:05.75, you had 15 guys to race with that were .25 seconds faster or slower! Wow! Jake is right! Pity guys like Serra and Ray Lee Chee...must be boring up front!

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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
[email protected]

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And regarding the lap times, in a field of 46 ITA/SM cars (!!!!) the slowest car was only off the winners pace by under 6 seconds! And the track looks like it might have been about a half second slow or so. If you went a 1:05.0, you had 6 guys within 1 second in front of you, and 15 guys within 1 second behind you! And if you went a 1:05.75, you had 15 guys to race with that were .25 seconds faster or slower! Wow! Jake is right! Pity guys like Serra and Ray Lee Chee...must be boring up front!
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This was definatly one of the more exciting races I ever ran. Starting back in 36th (bad balljoint) gave a whole new meaning to backmarker!!!! As we were rolling out onto the grid, I was thinking "Holy crap look at all the damn cars" I can't even see the front few rows.

I did end up in 9th overall, and I really had to work my butt off, but some of the battles between the SM's had to make me laugh. Those guys are serious!!! I saw more insurance claims for fenders and doors than I can imagine!!!

Good fun and a real eye opener, It's actually more fun to run from the back than to chase one or two guys for the lead.

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