Bill H. Ocala Fl.

The Sebring race was an eventful one for The Racers Group with a week of working through tire issues and finally getting things settled we found our lead Porsche #66 knocked out of the race by the Audi #2 R8. The hit broke the suspension and we lost the ability to steer which meant no making it back to the pits. The officials did not put out the caution so the 66 sat of the track for several hours until the Spyker GT class car spun out and left the track only to hit the dead 66 in the rear. That finally brought out the caution and we were able to retrieve the car.

While all of this was going on our #67 car driven by Larry Schumacher, Bob Nagel and Jim Pace rose to the occasion and worked very hard to finish the race at a very respectable 4th place in class just 1.8 seconds behind the 3rd place PK team #60. With our 66 car having been constantly faster than our 67 car we felt the 66 would have easily brought in a 2nd place Finnish. But that is not the way it turned out so off we go to the next event.

Kevin Buckler did a fantastic job of maintaining his composure after loosing his lead Porsche and concentrated on getting all they could out of the 67 car and drivers. I was very impressed in the crew of The Racers Group and we are very proud to be a part of their Porsche racing efforts this year.

Our next race is this Saturday at the California speedway. This will be a Grand Am event that is scheduled to be 400 Miles or 4 hours which ever comes first. Speed Channel will be airing the race live beginning at 3:30 PM Eastern time. Currently we have the 66 entered and are working to get the 67 set up and entered as well.

The Racers Group is without a doubt a very good team and has the potential to earn a Grand Am GT class championship, and Give the Alex Job Porsche team a run for the ALMS championship. Even if we don't beat them they will at least know they were being chased all season.

I hope you will make it to some of the events and help us cheer Kevin and his crew on to some well deserved victories. During the year we plan to offer Hot Pit tickets to the events as prizes from drawings or contests. We are working on the promotion and will announce it soon. The winners will be with the crew at the trailer and in the pits during the days leading up to the race and on
race day. Should be a lot of fun for many different Porsche enthusiast during the year.

Here are links to sites with the Grand Am and ALMS schedules and news releases:

<a href="http://www.grand-am.com/events.html" target="_blank">http://www.grand-am.com/events.html</a>
<a href="http://www.professionalsportscar.com/" target="_blank">http://www.professionalsportscar.com/</a>
<a href="http://theracersgroup.com" target="_blank">http://theracersgroup.com</a>

Our Cars at Sebring:

<a href="http://suncoastporscheplus.com/Sebring66Thu.jpg" target="_blank">http://suncoastporscheplus.com/Sebring66Thu.jpg</a>

Bill H. Ocala Fl.

I see nothing has changed regarding the participants of Rennlist ignoring a serious Porsche racing event that John D is personally involved in.

As serious lack of appreciation for all he does for the Porsche community. Seems someone would have said some type of encouragement to him for his efforts.

doyle

Bill,

Insulting the users of this site is a sure fire way to get people to respond favorably to your posts. If you are so desperate for attention maybe you should join a support group.

In all seriousness, your post above was mearly an article reporting on the weekend. Just because we may not post a response does not mean we did not watch or are not proud of the job done. I read your post yesterday, and while informative, I did not feel compelled to respond.

I did watch the entire race, flag to flag, and I am proud of the teams job, but many of us do not always have time to sit and post a response to every post that appears. If you are soliciting responses, ask a question, if not, then stop getting on our cases.

BTW, good job to the team and a we are proud of anyone that can be very competitive with the best in the world.

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doyle

Bill H. Ocala Fl.

I was not and am not now insulting the users of this site. I am in fact dissapointed that John D does not seem to receive much if any response from the users of Rennlist to his posts or those about what he is doing. If that is insulting to you then so be it.

I wrote that after speaking with John last night and hearing his dissapointment that not one person had responded to the comments on any of the sections I posted it to. I could care less about personal attention for me but I do have a lot of respect for all John does for the people on Rennlist and it irritates me greatly when I hear his dissapointment over the lack of response his racing efforts get from those he has worked so hard to provide this forum for.

Suncoast Porsche is a part of this effort only because of John D and we quite frankly think he deserves a tremendous amount of cretit and open support from the recipients of his efforts building Rennlist.

If you can find fault in that then you may need the help.

James Achard

Bill, Might I offer some suggestions. I read your posts whenever they appear because racing is very important to me. What I find though is that once I have read it, there really is not much to say. Your writing is very clear and concise and the way in which your posts are written don't lend themselves to much response, if any. If your intent is to solicit responses you might want to try asking some general questions to the audience or ask for a vote on a subject regarding the race in question. By doing this you will bring people in and make it a more interactive experience. After all , folks on this board have no problem voicing there opinions on things No offense meant!!

As far as The Racers Group goes, keep up the good work and best of luck to them over the course of the season. I'll be watching as much a s possible!!!!


Cheers

<img src="graemlins/drink.gif" border="0" alt="[cherrsagai]" /> God I hope that was Guiness.

James

Bill H. Ocala Fl.

Here is another Great Picture of the TRG car.

<a href="http://www.suncoastporsche.com/66sebring.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.suncoastporsche.com/66sebring.jpg</a>