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Sebring Historic Fall Classic
Sebring International Raceway November
18-21, 2004
Oppenheimer and Bennett win night Historic Enduro
Overall results
Kitchak 3rd OA and First in class in night Historic
Enduro results
Kitchak 3rd OA in Vintage Enduro results
Kitchak First in Class and 2nd OA in Historic Enduro results
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Race Report -
General Comments. Sebring is always a great race with long
races and a classic road course. It is also probably the roughest
track
on a car in the US. While it is smooth in some areas, it is very very
bumpy
in others. So it is hard on cars, but a very very fun time. David and
the
Moorespeed crew did a great job getting the cars ready as usual and the
crew
we had (see the photos) was very good.
Klub Sport Race. We did very well in the first race of the
weekend,
the Klub Sport race for 2 Liter displacement Porsches. 41 Cars
!!!
started the race. We started from the second row and went to the
lead
by the end of the first lap. We did not give it up during the balance
of
the race. A full course yellow with 2 laps to go required another start
with
the group bunched up. We "ran away from the field" in both cases.
Vintage Enduro. We could have done quite well in this
race
if I would not have run out of gas. David Moore our crew chief
said
we could go only 20 laps and I ran out of gas on the 21st trying to
stretch
and extra lap. I tried to get back to the pits, the car stopped
and
quit running. I was actually trying to drive it back on the
starter
and when the gas drained down out of the foam in the fuel cell it
started
and I had enough gas to get back. Unfortunately it cost us a
great
deal of track position. A later full course yellow got us up near the
leaders,
but we had 20 cars to pass to get back within reach.
Realistically,
the best we could have done would have been 2nd overall and 1st in
class.
We finished 3rd in class and 4th overall. And, the cars in front
of
us all had lap times faster than we did.
Night Enduro. We qualified 2nd for the night enduro and
started
outside on the front row. We won the race into turn one and led
quickly.
The car that ultimately won, Jim Scott, got by us briefly
and
we quickly repassed him and got out to a 20 second lead. We had
the
race handily won until the motor expired, totally self destructed, 1.5
laps
from the end of the race. So we finished 2nd in class and
4th
overall.
Group 3 Sprint Race. Group 3 is a tough group for us to win,
but
it is always very good racing. The reason it is tough group is
that
we usually have the Lotus 23Bs in the group. We did, however, win our
class
which was great.