2000 SCCA PRO SPEEDVISION
World Challenge GT
LIME
ROCK, Conn
May
26-27 |
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RACE REPORT - Lime Rock, Conn. May 27.
We qualified 17th, finished 10th. We did finish in virtually a dead
heat for 8th, 9th and 10th. Unfortunately we got beat to the line by the
Paul Brown's Saleen Mustang horsepower. Not a lot to write home about
this weekend. Terry Borcheller won the race in another Saleen and Peter
Cunningham takes over the lead in the Championship...with a 4th, 5th, and
4th. Bobby Archer was fast again and the Audi's also proved formidable.
Derek Bell spun about mid race, hit the wall and came back into the track...right
in front of me. Close call, but we managed to get by. Michael Galati and
Bill Cooper got together and Cooper (the guy that intentionally hit us
in the race last year) got the worst of the deal. Into the wall and
a badly damaged car. He was, however, ok.
The car is now 100% after our crash at Mosport and we still can't
make it work. It is absolutely impossible to get it down to minimum weight
and to get the balance on the car to work for racing. We were a full
second off the pace although we were within .1 second of the other fast
Porsche, David Schardt. The problem with the car is that it
is so nervous that you can get it one good lap, but that is sliding it
all over the place and then the tires get hot and it can't go the next
lap fast. This year at Lime Rock we were faster than last year, and we
are not in contention we were two seconds off the pace. But we are told
that the tires are better. With all of the work the guys have put
into the car it is very frustrating. So, we are back to the drawing
board, trying to figure the thing out. We are concluding that the GT3 Cup
car was not really designed to be a good race car and it really needs a
lot more development...the kind of development we are not sure we want
to go through. So, we might be back to an RSR,..... or out of the
series. We will have to make some big decisions in the next couple
of weeks.