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The Team for the 24 Hours of Daytona
 Janurary 30-February 2, 2003
Duncan
DUNCAN DAYTON

 Peter
PETER KITCHAK
 Gunnar
GUNNAR JEANETTE
 Ron Zitza
RON ZITZA

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Race Report -

Friday Historic GTP Race

A podium Finish!  We finish 3rd Overall.  Jim Oppenheimer, Peter and Craig Bennett share the driving. Each driver drives one stint. Impossible to beat the much more powerful Nissan GTP GTP cars.  We started 3rd and we finished third after a consistant drive by each of our drivers.  The Porsche 962 is a spectacular car to drive and almost all of the laps of each of our drivers was at or below the best times for the best cars in the 24 hour field.

Friday 24 Hour Practice 

No real news.  The car still did not work well.  Apparently there is a broken cylinder in the engine and water is leaking out of one of the headers.  So, a new engine is going into the car but we have not decided whether or not we will be do the race.  I am 50/50 at the moment and will make the decision of whether I will race or not on Saturday Morning.

Thursday 24 Hour Practice  

Unfortunately, this is not turning out the way I expected. The car was finished just before the first practice and we are SLOOOW! We will be lucky to end up in the top half of the field and tonight during night practice we were one of the slowest cars.  We don't have the right suspension set-up and we are way down on power. Imagine what is is like to be driving such a beautiful, fast looking car and get passed  by a GT3R Porsche.  We can't get a good program for the engine from Porsche and we just don't seem to be able to make the horsepower we need.  I was faster here with my 1973 Normally Aspirated Porsche RSR in 1999. Cest La Vie.

All of the drivers have now had time in the car, we had a water leak during the first practice and we keep changing things.  Friday morning we will have new shocks, new springs and perhaps a new program from Porsche for the motor.  But...they just aren't willing to give us the motor we need to make the car go.  Politics.

But, the good news... Jim and I are third on the grid for the Historic Race with the Porsche 962. And, we are much faster than the fastest of the Daytona 24 hours cars. So, for the Friday race in that car we expect to be very quick. And, we could win.  It is very close.