+1!!!!! Great job with the electronic problems to overcome

 

I'm not going next year, I need to step away from the event for at least a year.

I think at this point we've proven that a "relatively fast", reliable car is the ticket to win the overall honors even if it isn't the fastest car or the fastest driver. I know Mark wants to do the event again next year but we're planning some major changes to the car and it will probably take more than a year to get them designed and tested so if he goes it will probably be in something else.

One Lap has been good to us and after 5 in a row I think it is time to give the old girl a break. She's got 55,000 miles and 7 years of One Laps. To this day the engine has never been opened. What an amazing car...

 

I'll be back in the Cayman.

I want to thank Leh for being a great codriver. We had a blast and really wanted to finish it. It just wasn't meant to be. I think he has other plans (assuming his Rolex schedule even allows it), so I'm going to be poking around for another codriver.

The Cayman will have more power (well, more power than even the X51 motor had if it had been running right, which it wasn't), it'll be lighter, and it'll handle better than it did this year, too.


--Donnie

 

i wana say congrats to you Drew and Mark... you guys got it down.. and built and drove the car yourselves... beating big efforts like mongoose and Dodge/hennessy...

way to go...

 

24 hour nurburgspec that thing hoss....


thanks again... it was Bad A doing it with you.....

and i love that little cayman... as i know you do too....

 

Donnie,

Glad you had fun, I felt bad that the Cayman never ran right. It would have been real fun watching Ian & Leh go head to head. The GT3 will not be back next year as I do not want to go all the way to full track with it. I was impressed with Catesby Jone's Active Autowerks E46 M3, 430whp, so we are going to join you in SSGT1 SB next year with the E46 M3 with a few mods.

Peter
2008 OLOA SSGT1 BB 4th Overall Porsche GT3

 

Thanks Leh!

We have had some serious help along the way especially from Fairfield County Motorsport (which is where I work), and help both financially and with parts and engineering from our various sponsors over the years. It is definitely a group effort keeping a car like this one running and competetive.

It should be good fun to see Donnie's reborm Cayman and if Peter and Ian are driving a boosted M3 it is sure to be fast as well. Good luck in both your efforts.

I'll be back at some point but I don't know what form it will be in.

 

Peter, please find a slower codriver. I'll likely be doing more driving next year and probably can't keep up with Ian no matter what he drives!

It was fun, and congratulations to Mark and Drew. Winning five of these things is pretty amazing. Nice job.


--Donnie

 

Sorry Donnie, the co-driver stays the same. I do hope to drive several more tracks next year if I can figure out how to go fast right out of the start and not take all day to work up to it. I guess I need more practice.

Peter

 

Thanks Donnie!

Peter, Guys like Mark and Ian have an edge when it comes to being able to switch on the Go-Fast part of the brain. I've been as fast as Mark at a lot of track days and Autocrosses but never in the Morning...

 

Truer words were never spoken. It takes me all day to even get within shouting distance of Ian.

Peter