John Anderson

What a great weekend!! We were at willow springs again this weekiend (thats two weekends in a row up there)for the TCRA event.
We arrived early friday afternoon to get everything set up for the weekend and to start doing a few adjustments to the suspension and some tuning to the motor.

Huntley Racing showed up sometime around 10:30pm that night. We were excited, finally, a race between the two teams was about to be a reality!!

Saturday morning and the call for the first practice session..It was close, our times were almost identical between Huntley Racing and Anderson Motorworks, I was a little nervous, but I also knew we had some adjustments to make..so we calmed down and stuck to the plan...tune the car, and just get it ready for the qualifying session later in the day.

We run another practice session...and the car is getting much better, the handling is really starting to show and the car is sticking pretty good. I kept tuning, wanting everybit we could get. I knew Huntley was there to race and they had a built 914/6 and a 951 they were throwing against us.

Qualifying round. Derrek ends up a position behind us, and Ikes 914/6 is not racing. After a warm up lap, the green flag drops...Derreks takes to the dirt on the far side of the track to gain a position on our car...he keeps the lead on us until round three, we are all over him ...not able to do enough damage on the straights and pull away from us, I knew it was just time until we pass Derrek...he is a very good defensive driver, Neal backs off, and on lap three, Neal and Derrek are screaming down the straight, diving into turn #1 very hard, Derreks goes wide and off track...Neal makes his break and puts Derrek behind him...

Now we are gaining on another 951...and we take him about lap 9 and start to close in on the Vette. on the last lap the 951 takes his position back, so we finish the race in fourth place.

1-Don Dicker, 996
2-2002 Vette
3-951
4-Anderson Motorworks 84 944 NA

Sunday we only drive in practice session two, to get the car ready...we are off the track in five laps. The car is ready!

call to grid for the race, HUntley Racing left early in the day to head home, and the other 951 dropped out due to valve problems...so we are now in the three spot, behind the Vette and the 996 taking the lead.

THe green flag drops and we get a good start, quickly leaving the traffic behind. By lap three, We pass the vette, and that leaves the 996 in front...we know we can't catch him, so Neal just keeps his position for the remainder of the race..and we finish 2nd in GT3, and 5TH overall.

It was a great weekend!!!

1-Don Dicker 996
2-Anderson Motorworks 84 944na
3-2002 Vette

Very fun time!!!

"see you at the track"!!!!

Huntley Racing

We enjoyed running this weekend at Willow. The Touring Car Club is a great organization to run with, especially with a new driver since they have many slower groups to build confidence in a new driver. We brought up Chris Williams daily driver (a 87' 951 with HR-MAF, HR-Coil-overs and the required safety equipment, booming stereo system too!!), the Huntley Racing HSR 916/6 2.0 ltr, and Tony Garcia came with his daily driver (88' 951 with big turbo/MAF and HR-Coil-overs). Chris ran in the time trial group with Tony and I drove Chris's car in the Red Race group. Ike ran in the Purple race group for 2.2 ltr and lower cars. I was amazed how well Chris's daily driver did against Anderson's full-blown racecar! With a 900+ lb advantage, 275 Hoosiers on big 17" rims, stiff chassis with a full cage, low center of weight etc... the Anderson car was only a few tenths of a second faster all weekend! The other surprise was seeing our little 2.0 ltr 914 pass the Anderson 3.1 ltr on the front straight like they were chained down!! Our 914/6 was in 2nd place in it's race group on Saturday until a poorly driven Opal tagged us in the left corner and broke the car for the weekend <img src="graemlins/cussing.gif" border="0" alt="[grrrrrrr]" /> . Chris's car was cooking the tires off it because they were so small and the car was so heavy but we continued to run-what-we-brung until those old water hoses he said 'will go a little longer', didn't!! We popped the hood to a 20 ft geyser out of this tiny pin sized hole <img src="graemlins/c.gif" border="0" alt="[ouch]" /> . Tony was running 3rd place overall in the BLUE group on Saturday turning 1:42 laps but his street tires started chunking so he stayed home Sunday. Chris climbed up to a 1:41, not bad for his first time out!! He had a massive OFF in turn nine spinning outside then back around inside at well over 100 MPH making his car a new shade of desert brown instead of silver <img src="graemlins/burnout.gif" border="0" alt="[burnout]" /> . Ike turned a 1:33 lap in the 914/6. I turned a 1:34 lap in Chris's car. So with lots of good track time under our belts, an officially banished Opal driver <img src="graemlins/wave.gif" border="0" alt="[byebye]" /> , a little less fiberglass on our 914 than we came with <img src="graemlins/cussing.gif" border="0" alt="[grrrrrrr]" /> , a couple gallons less coolant <img src="graemlins/c.gif" border="0" alt="[ouch]" /> , and a couple of bottles less Vodka <img src="graemlins/drink.gif" border="0" alt="[cherrsagai]" /> , we headed home. I'm just wondering what Anderson is going to do when our regular race car, the Boxster runs against him in the same GT3 class!?!? Or if we really want to mess with him we could jump the 914/6 2.0 ltr up from the -2.2 ltr class to the +3.0 ltr class just to mess with him!! <img src="graemlins/burnout.gif" border="0" alt="[burnout]" />