hf1

Will, I can't send you a PM for some reason so left you a visitor msg on your profile with my email. Thanks much!

hf1

You were 'cooking', especially for your first time at LRP! Look forward to racing with you, too -- that is, if for some reason I end up being even near you at all.

LuigiVampa

I have a feeling that you got a 13 because it was your first race and they are going to be overly cautious. If it happened later in the year it might have been a different result. Frank, as others have noted, is overly generous with his time and can help you understand the process.

On another note, congrats to all the winners! Wish I could have been there.

Frank 993 C4S

We missed you out there Todd!

Race 1



Race 2

jlanka

Chris thanks for the fantastic video. I only wish you had data on it.

Jeff

ProCoach

I could help fix that...

sbelles

My 2nd time this year and I had a lot of fun. It was nice to shake off the cobwebs and start the season. I had nose to tail racing in both sprints and I took over a second off my time from last year.

Here's a little action from just behind the pointy end of the SPB field. Fun racing with Hoyt and Gary with Woz pushing from behind. I had to throw a 1:01.1 down to catch Gary starting at about 7:00. I'll be back next year!

linzman

Here's another video of the first white Sprint. Got down to a 1:00.111. Fun first few laps. Don't mind the hand signal HF

JP66

First let me start by offering a huge thank you to Frank for acting as my mentor and Ron for offering advice that I hope I can someday put to good use and of course to all the kind folks I met at the track who offered words of encouragement.

For those who don't know I was one of the many rookies at the race, and for the first 2 days I couldn't have wiped the smile off my face if I had wanted to, but after the last race I have to admit I was a little disheartened. My coaches and Spencer from Speed Sport told me to forget about it and press on. I get that racing is where you need to wear your big boy pants, but honestly I left wondering if I really should even be there because when I tallied up the number of rookie mistakes I made it was maddening.

However, when I went back to my video and thought it over I began to question whether I was as awful as I thought I was or just maybe there is hope for me yet, with that in mind I have a quick question for those who passed me on the track as well as those who remember what it was like being a rookie.

First, below is a 5 minute video from the 2nd race.

My question is: Did I really blow the start that badly and is that just the way most starts go - flat out from the pits - I mean my pace lap was 1:14 which is only 8 seconds off a full speed lap for me and I was still 20 seconds behind the pack?

I had done 10 prior starts of which 9 were practice and 1 was from the morning race, but never had I had a situation where the pace lap ended up being a close to full speed lap. Yes, I know I'm not on the line in many places but my mind was thinking this was a pace lap and I would catch the pack any second so I didn't really get into race mode until I came down the hill and the green flag was waving at which point I freaked and red mist set in for sure. I tried my hardest to calm down, but obviously it didn't work very well as you can see from the crazy driving of my next 3 laps. Even as I was fighting to calm back down I kept working my hardest with the hope of catching someone in the back of the pack. My times went from a pace lap of 1:14 to lap 1 at 1:08 to lap 2 at 1:06 and lap 3 at 1:05 and then disaster. As I entered the straight after Big Bend I could see the tail end of the pack so I thought I could safely drop into 3rd gear for a little extra punch and maybe catch up on No Name, but alas the gods of racing wanted to teach me a lesson and it all ended at the next turn. I don't mind being last or being in the slowest class in the run group, but if I can't hang with the start something is wrong.


Regardless, I have to admit I had a blast. I'm just wondering if time and more experience are all that I need.




Also, I would note with some minor humor I got DQ'd for being 13 pounds under weight. That's what I get for being on a diet the last 2 months and losing 10 lbs

hf1

The hand signal, LOL! Great video, thx!

FeuerRacing

Your wish is granted - I updated the original video links and they're also both below - Sprint 2 is still uploading at the time of this update and has a couple hours left.

Sprint 1

Sprint 2

Now we just need to see what happened to Muller's video of his Lime Rock driving? Did that just magically disappear before the race weekend?

mmuller

Actually, it was more like two months ago............

Frank 993 C4S

Yes - this!!!

Joe - you did great given how varying the conditions were and how difficult of a track it is to pass and get passed. No two races are alike. Sometime (for some unknown reason) the Pace Car will be so slow that it's impossible to get temps in the tires. Some other times, it will take off and never gather up the field. Experience will teach you how to deal with these varying situations and not get flustered.

ProCoach

Thanks for posting Scott, Steve and Chris!

Joe, don't worry about it. The great thing about racing is the more you do it, the better you get, and you'll get better. I haven't watched your vid, yet. But keep working on it. Normal to have lots of room to improve at starts, one way is to just maintain position. Congrats on your inaugural weekend. You have a good car, a good crew and a great community to help you do better!

Evan (still fixing his car) and I were both on pit lane coaching P1 and P2 in I and we had as much fun (well, almost) as our drivers did talking them through the races!

Steve113

John- Thanks a lot great job to you finishing 3rd in GTC-3 in second race. Thanks a lot for allowing me by after I blew the start. Next time wait around for the podium pictures

I have been trying to brake the record that Baron set years ago of a 54.1 for some time . Finally after I made some adjustments to the wing after the first race I was able to get the 53.7
I missed the shift on the start which I went from 3rd overall to about 13th Turns out it made me work extra hard to catch the leaders and turned some really good lap times to finish 1st in class and second over all and brake the lap record .

Great weekend - Thanks to all the Orange racers and all the workers that made the weekend so great.