DrJupeman

Sequence pics of the Green Sprint's soon to be famous start. Good job everybody for avoiding a pile-up!!

38D

Nice to have my brief foray in 3rd caught on film

Gary R.

What's the saying?
I think it goes "You can't win a race in turn one but you sure can LOSE a race in turn one!"

DrJupeman

I did lead the race at one point!

Sean F

It's funny, but the pictures don't really show how much tire smoke there was. It looked like a Nascar moment. I thought for sure someone would have plowed into him with all that smoke.

Charlie was that last picture when you got him on the inside and went wide and he re-passed you back on the inside in Big Bend? That was fun to watch.

DrJupeman

Actually, I had passed him up the hill and he got me back at Big Bend. It was sloppy on my part to let him get by me again so easily. I did a much better holding Bob off during the first half of the enduro on Friday.

Food Angel

When I look at that sequence of photos, Len Berman's Spanning the World intro comes to mind.

"And nobody got hurt!"

DrJupeman

Chris Castagna driving his dad's car. This kid is awesome. I'm a fan.

fstockcarrera

Charlie nice race, The pass after the uphill when I got picked by 911 turtle was a gift. You had such a huge run I didn't have the heart to block the inside line where I had just come thru. I have some video but the racecam looks like crap compared to you 1080p cam. Thanks fot the amazing pics.

Bob

roketman

I have to admit ,I was praying!!! A HUGE COMPLIMENT and THANX TO ALL DRIVERS who avoided me in my lock up !!
From pole to last and back to 4th! Boy was I tired.The thumping from the left front was a bit annoying! 2 races starting from last.Did manage to get fastest lap in both races. Rather be up front than have good video!niice job to all.

DrJupeman

Pic of new rookie racer Brian Paulsen. With the price of these cars and their classing, I suspect we'll be seeing more Boxster race cars on the grid soon...

analogmike

Thanks for posting those shots, that start was crazy... All I saw was smoke till I was within a few car lengths of Ron... so I went into the smoke SLOWLY and you can see 3 E cars got by me on the inside. Got back by 2 of them on the same lap in the downhill when one spun. Then had a great race catching up to and passing Justin Draper, who repassed me after a while. We both had problems getting stuck behind the slower but more powerful C and D cars (996 and bloxter) and we ran out of laps just after Justin got the 996 and I was alongside the 996 at the checker. It's really funny how, with all the craziness of the race, the top 10 were pretty much in qualifying position except for a little shuffling and I ended up just where I started...

Got to hang with Charlie and Colin a bit, they did great, keeping up with Scotto, Ronny, etc who basically call LRP their home, is an amazing feat! GTC1 would be a great class but they are not making them anymore... if the PCA could agree on allowing you to build a cup car out of a street car and specify what parts you need to install it would solve that problem.

Great event, thanks to all the workers, and friendly people who stopped by.

bauerjab

Great series of pictures. As you can see my from my avator, I am car 34 - THE ONE PARKED BEHIND SAVENOR - as the field went buy. I couldn't see a thing and when the smoke cleared, Savenor is dead center and everone is saying "seeya."

Mike, thanks for helping on the electronics. There was a compartment for the two inputs that we couldn't find... go Figure.

All in all, a suprisingly great weekend at LRP, including the enduro. Does anyone know what happened to the cup car that lost it on the downhill and stuffed their nose into the tire wall?

John

Gary R.

It was John G. who appeared shaken up but unhurt, the car was new with only 300KM on it and will need a whole new front clip at the very least. My guess is a whole new tub.

JasonAndreas

The ride side of the front end up to the firewall pretty much no longer exists and the left side was squished like it had hit a telephone pole. I was standing in big bend and didn't see the accident but when I saw the damage I thought he had taken out one of the fence posts. Its great to hear that he is okay, the damage looked pretty bad.