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lateapex911 said:
OK, so, what's happening in IT up at the Speedway this weekend??
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ITA

Branscombe green to checker 1:18.25
Gangi coming on strong 1:18.12
Breault 1:18.35

Track was very slippery.

IT7 had Patullo and McStay with mucho amore for one another......

Bucella takes the win, Grant 2nd, Big wave Dave rounding out the top 3. I think Grant owes Dick a windshield...

ITB had Beran leading but pulled off with a handfut to go- Win going North of the Border, ehhh? (Vantage).

Ufelder in ITS with Lawton? and Miskoe? I believe.

ITR was Maynard (Naturally) with The Tizzer and Crugnale on the podium


Big scare in ITS/R with a red flag for an ITS e30 that lost it in 9, clibling the wall in the downhill and going airborn aiming for the flag station at the turtle. Everyone was fine but the car was destroyed.

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That was a nasty wreck. I was one of the first ones to respond, it seems like it started at the tires out of 9 then carried it down to 10. It took a few gouges out of the pavement, but as reported driver was fine.
 
ITA - Day 2 re-cap from #86 -
A fun start had Breault, Gangi, Ruddy, Branscombe for about 4 laps until I could not hold off Branscombe anymore. Branscombe caught up to Gangi and they both reeled in Breault. They both got by and Gangi held off Bransc. Final was Gangi, Branscombe, Breault, Ruddy. I think I need to find the hidden turbos on Breault's car!!

An amazing weekend of extremely close racing with no big incidents!!

Tim - you were missed... but don't hurry back. It was nice to bring home hardware. LOL
 
That was fun!!! First time in the front row, first time leading a race. Pace car paced us fast, but suffice it to say we were 4 wide in a drag race into 1 (chicane). Gangi low, Jeff next, me, and Anthony high. I had the prefferred line into 1 and came out on top, followed by Vic, Jeff and Anthony. I lead for the next 9 laps. It was COOL! I had opened up about a 3 sec lead on Victor, but he eventually cought me as my tires got hot. The track was very challenging and I felt that if I had to lose the lead to Vic I'd rather be outdriven than give it to him by spinning. Vic caught me and I held p2 for 5 more laps until [I blew it] my foot slipped off the brake pedal in 3 and nearly wrecked myself. Jeff drove to the door and we drag raced up the hill.....everyone knows how that turned out for me.....

Great weekend- 2 3rds....learned a ton.

The racing was as close as it could get and was VERY respectful, what a great group.


R
 
I had a tremendous time with some weak qualifying efforts and some strong races as I got more seat time. Definitely got warm! I think for today's ITA race there should be two classifications... the first three and the rest!

Props to instant and unselfish help I got on the qualifying grid when Black Betty developed a small coolant leak. #58 and #94 have some GREAT support... thanks man...

Now my hard part... a very sincere apology to Dave Fiata for the spin in T3... looking at the data system, I definitely caught some serious understeer, car did not hold and I came into your line in turn 3. My bad for sure... no doubt. Even checked the line I had with other passes I made to the inside of turn #3. I prolly shouda been more patient but I was on a roll. Please drop me an email if you need help with the three link... serious.
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It really was a wicked fun weekend. In the Saturday’s IT7 race we all got very good starts. Grant was leading, with Noam and a Miata between me with Mike pushing me hard and Dave not far behind. Noam and the Miata got by Grant and Mike and I were catching him so Mike and I stopped fighting for second and worked together to reel him in. on lap 7 the IT7 race was going to be a barn burner. We went up the hill with me have some overlap on Grant and Mike right on my but with Dave only one half second behind. I was thinking to myself how with 10 laps to go anything could happen. Halfway down the hill Grant and I came together and spun to the right in the gravel. Mike did a masterful job of missing the wreck and taking the lead. By the way the gravel in that section of the track is the size of baseballs. I learned my unique paint job is not chip resistant.
Grant reentered quickly in third, me not so much, way too much toe out. Mike led to the end. Grant caught up with Dave and they swapped places multiple times with Grant edging him out for second by inches at the line.
Sunday was less eventful. Qualifying was Mike, Grant, me and Dave all within .8 seconds. It was nose to tail for 5 laps (chicane sucks) or so but I then lost contact with Grant when everything hot and Dave fell back when he got crossed up with a SSB car. I was just tooling around for the rest of the race. When a Miata wanted by in three I gave him the inside and he promptly drove into me on the exit taking a chunk out of my right front wheel. Not sure if there is any more damage yet. At least I finished.
Congratulations to Mike on his first and second win in a sweep of the weekend.
 
Nice job guys!! Congrats to Rob, Victor, Anthony and Geoff!! I wish I could have seen it!! Looks like we could have some serious fun in August!!

Dick, is IT7 gonna turn into SM?? I want to see video!!! :D
 
Ed Funk said:
Aren't Miatas fun?!?
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You know I am sick of hearing this momentum car excuse. I heard a quote told a Miata driver at another track and event: “it sound like you put more importance on the need to preserve your momentum than on our duty to not have contact”
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dickita15 said:
You know I am sick of hearing this momentum car excuse. I heard a quote told a Miata driver at another track and event: “it sound like you put more importance on the need to preserve your momentum than on our duty to not have contact”
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WE ALL HAVE MOMENTUM CARS. Its the key to winning. lose your momentum, lose the race. There are bad drivers in every class. Just happen to be more Miata drivers out there. Simple math (present company included)... :)
 
Andy, I admit it is fun to engage in a little Miata bashing after all they are not a minority so it is still permitted.
Fully 50% of the cars that hit me this weekend were Miatas while they were only20% of the field. 100% or the cars that hit me that were not in my class were Miatas so as you can see statistics are on my side.
By the way the last time I had contact was at least two years ago, I think that was… oh yea, I won’t go there.
:D
 
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