how was the IT race ? missed it due to disassebled car
hear rumor the fords were fast
Plucker
Hey Chris, we missed you this weekend for sure. It was a good weekend and there were some fast cars there but not all Fords.
Zsolt's ITS Integra was the show stopper in ITS. Trevor turned not just one, but a string of 2:14s in the ECR during the middle of the day. Well driven, well-setup, and the car has power. Trever and Zsolt would have won the ECR but they had some bad luck and lost the front left hub. They've built a great car though and will be back. Team Mustang was still in the hunt though and we took a #1 and #2 in the ECR with a Earp/Giordano and Young/Mitchell ECR driver lineup.
I can't remember the Sunday SARRC qualifying grid but it shook out as Earp, Jeff Giordano, Chuck Hines, and Russ Boatwright on the green. There were many non-starters in ITS, including Jeff Young and Zsolt. Anyhow, Chuck got me in T1 leaving a Jeff G, Chuck, Earp, Russ running order that lasted a few laps. Russ was gaining on me though as I didn't have the power to hold him off on the long back straight and he passed me going into roller coaster.
A lap or two later the Chuck, Jeff G, Russ, Earp lineup (I was far back) was coming into Hog's Pen and encountered mud and straw all across the track. No debris flags as it had just happened and Chuck could do nothing but drive right into it. He went off track left at no fault of his own, everyone else got sideways but managed to more or less stay on track. That left a Jeff G, Russ, Earp ITS lineup and that was the finish. Jeff G and Russ had similar laptimes with high 15s, a best for team Mustang and a testament to Jeff Gs driving and car setup.
Mike Sperber's ITA Ford Focus was running really well all weekend and it is very fast. It takes me a good while to run that car down on the back straight and it is visibly fast compared to other ITA cars out there. Congrats to Mike and his crew.
Tell you what, those MX5 cars are going to be a force in ITS. They were running 12s this weekend. Woooo wheee.
So, when you coming back to the track down this way?