~1.49's on VIR_F
~176-177 mph at the braking zone before #14 (hitting the revlimiters)
Braking in the bottom of the dip for #14

Someone mentioned that VIR was the fastest track that the series has ever raced on.

"Give me another rear end gear buddy"
"Sorry.. that is the lowest numerical one that we have"

Will
-who was excited to see the cars return to VIR...

 

hey, do you know what the results are? I moved outta my apt and back home and no longer have SPEED....I wanna know how my cousin Max Lagod finished....he was in the top 10 in the last race, pretty good considering he's in a 5 year old R&S chassis

 

http://www.trans-amseries.com/result...5376800002.PDF

 

thanks

 

i can't believe my cousin finished ahead of gentilozzi (sp) good ole' paul must've done a bit too much bumpin' and grindin' and took himself out?

 

my-lanta thats fast... i'm not quite sure i have a pair big enough to handle that kind of speed...

RJ

 

Never knew you to be a sentimental guy...

That's some good chit, Will. Thanks for the report.

 

A friend of mine named Butch Kummer drives a GT-1 Corvette, which is effectively a Trans Am car. It was built by Johnny Miller.
(Actually, the car was pretty much destroyed when the throttle stuck in practice at mid-ohio, but it is likely fixable).

Butch's response to "What's it like to go 180mph (his top speed at Daytona)?"
"The world gets really really narrow at 180mph."

Yikes.

 

 

I watched the race on Speed(vision), and the announcers said he had some kind of rib injury (didn't catch how it happened). They taped him up, and he ran a few laps before a co-driver took over for him. You could tell he was in a lot of pain!

 

Live?!

 

For those that were there, could you see them going through the uphill esses? I watched it on tv, and my jaw was on the floor watching them jump all over the gators in the uphill esses. badass racing

Brian

 

yes... the little wiggle while making the left hander going up the esses made me cringe everytime a car went thru there.

Willis

 

Mmmm...Boris Said's Panoz Esperante GTR.....my favorite racecar of the TransAM series. TransAM is some seriously exciting racing...great series!

 

anybody know what the Rolex cars ran there?

edit: answered my own question

SRP: 1:39-1:41s
SRPII: 1:45-1:49s
GT: 1:53-1:55s
AGT: 1:52-1:55s


[Modified by elgorey, 9:48 AM 10/29/2002]

 

http://www.grand-am.com/race_results...?ider=54&id=17

1.39's -1.41's

 

HC vs TA for '03?

 

as long at HC gets to use the cross over for North course.

 

Actually, thats the Mustang Boris was driving that weekend

Brian

 

yup.
Mike Davis was driving the Panoz

 

Or NAWWWZ.

 

That could get real interesting where the cross-over rejoins the main course. Yield sign, anyone?

 

it would be realy close time wise... but I bet the traffic would **** the Trans-am drivers off.

funny to think that they could run full course in the same time that HC runs the N course

 

That’s a good way to put it in perspective. That must be a real treat to go around VIR that quick!

Then again, bring on an F1 car or even a CART car on the full course and let them chase the Trans AM cars running on the North course. That should also be pretty even. But the fact that they all have four wheels is about all that is similar between an F1, Trans Am or HC car. Nevertheless, there’s always a bigger fish out there.

 

Trans Am always has been, and always will be my first love . . .


Drew - Who has been around the SCCA Trans Am Series since April of 1975