Anyone know how Lowes is going today?

Frank DePew

 

h1
james evans
pete curpier

h2
corey jacobs
jason franza
robert williams

h3-h4 i don't remember how they crossed the line as i was talking to the tow truck guy....

red rocket version 7.0 was created at the track early saturday morning and afternoon.....it started last and had moved up a few spots until.....the shifter stabalizer fell off....ending his race......

but the TRUE b16 put down a whooping 181 hp and 105 tq.....on fresh rings and ZERO miles on the block!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pictures to come.....full story and story line with pix's too....

but thanks to

DANIEL
IAN
GREG
JEFF (greg 2)
DAVE

for all the hard work......completely building a new engine in the garage at lowes....NASCAR AINT GOT NOTHING ON THE R & D CREW!!!!!!!!!!

 

Chad,

Sorry about the hard luck. There is always Sunday Bro!!! Could RR Version 7.0 keep up with JE on the banking?

Sounds like the 'race' was uneventful? How many cars took the green in SB..

Come-on throw me a bone over here!!

Info pleaeeeese!

John- whos witnessing the points lead slipping away. DAMN!

 

Wish I was on top of my usual game and get all of the final stats (heck I'm even working in T&S this weekend) but alas I was distracted. Sorry, I will try tomorrow!

All I can remember from the Small Bore race was that of the ECHC group, the Top 5 held their positions the entire race (Evans, Jacobs, Curpier, Franza, & Williams). Not much action up front because everyone was spaced out. Franza and Williams seemed much closer together with the potential from some scrapping, but no dice from my POV.

Edit: Oh, also, seemed Warren had his fare share of problems. I want to say something happened in practice, but I do know in qualifying he dropped a ton of oil in Turn 1 and ended up sitting out for a bit till Big Blue rolled up...

 

Saturday:

H3: Ratcliff (duh....)
H4: Kent
H5:???

Notes: Lots of blown engines today. You can fit a baseball through what's left of ****'s block. Adam Richman blew up his 944S while instructing. At 7:30am, the R&D engine was *completely* disassembled, because it broke on the drive up.

Good drives: Robert Williams drove the freakin wheels of his R. Curpier had a nice drive in H1. Corey gave Evans *ALL* he could handle for a few laps in the beginning. Good stuff

 

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Bummer... sorry to hear that... was that the motor Warren just put back in that car??? And why did Adam bring the Porsche? hum...

 

They had this hyperride thing going on to take paying riders out for some fast paced laps around the track. I took out one of the NASA workers as they had no one else (already had enough drivers, not enough riders). I'd guess about 10 or so minutes in, turned in to Turn 1 and a very loud twack followed by a ton of smoke in the cockpit (I actually thought the car was on fire). Just a real big hole missing out of the bottom end and the under panel was covered with large pieces of aluminum. What the hay, it was a really fun session until then :-)

 

Sorry to hear about the Por-Schuh.

And ****'s car. And Chad's...when will the carnage end?

 

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Whatever happened to Honda reliability?

 

From what the qualification results show here in my hand, it appears that H/C qualifies in the following order:

1) James Evans
2) Corey Jacobs
3) Robert Williams
4) Chad Slagg
5) James Lucas
6) Jason Franza
7) Todd Reid
8) Alex Ratcliffe
9) Warren ****
10) Peter Curpier
11) Lyonel Kent
12) Sam Lockwood
13) Bill Roediger
14) Gregg Ginsberg
15) Michael Stoiber
16) Jerry Birchmore
17) W. Matthew Brown

Small bore race starts in....about 25-30 minutes. I'll try and get results up ASAP!

JJ says what's up!

 

Great event. I was glad to meet everyone.

BIG props to everyone who competed and the winners.

The RandD and SGT crews really deserve a hand for all that they fixed this weekend. Excellent work.

Those of you who missed it REALLY missed out.

Edit: Pics= https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=600858


Modified by BEN Diesel at 5:14 PM 8/24/2003

 

Final Results for Sunday Small Bore:

H1
1) James Evans
2) James Lucas
3) Todd Reid
4) Sam Lockwood
5) Chad Slagg

H2
1) Jason Franza
2) Corey Jacobs
3) Robert Williams
4) Warren ****

H3
1) Alex Ratcliffe
2) Bill Roediger

H4
1) Lyonel Kent
2) Michael Stoiber
3) Jerry Birchmore
4) W. Matthew Brown (DNS)
5) Gregg Ginsberg (DNS)

Warren ran and ran pretty strong from my POV. Chad only ran one lap on the apron just to retain points for competing.


Modified by drumsy at 5:31 PM 8/24/2003

 

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Blown up "stock" Hondas are almost always due to non spec parts, poor maintenence, poor re-assembly, driver error...etc. Not flaming **** or his engine builder, but there's a reason.

Having raced Hondas HARD for 13+ years with only a couple of blown head gaskets (reason = too much drafting), I believe in Honda reliability.


Modified by Track rat at 2:37 PM 8/24/2003

 

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Blown up "stock" Hondas are almost always due to non spec parts, poor maintenence, poor re-assembly, driver error...etc. There's a reason.</TD></TR></TABLE>

With a Honda like you have, reliability is prolly never an issue!

And Driver Error has to be up there above the 50% range

 

Ben, do we drive em hard or what? Nice meeting you, glad Will gave you a good ride!

 

I look foward to riding in that Beast you call a car as well!

Gotta love the way you got it as well.

 

Bringing a salvage car back to a happy life on the track is like adopting an orphaned child...very rewarding

 

Congrats to Bobby for a double-podium weekend

And congrats to Garth for the H2 win.

Wish Bef and I could have made it

 

Yea, i heard you were there for a sec. I was lookin foward to meeting you dude. What happen Main?

 

What happened to Chad today? Why did he only run one lap on the apron? Were they not able to get his shift linkage fixed?

 

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Rod bearing expired in qualifying.

 

Go James Lucas and Todd Reid Go! Congratulations to these OH/IN drivers!

 

Evans was STRONG out there in that CRX. Very surprizing. 1st laps i saw him out there my mouth was dropped!

 

what type of lap times were they running this year?

 

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Rod bearing expired in qualifying.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yep, it sucks that we had to reuse the old ones in the rebuild sat morning...we knew we were running on borrowed time...but at least our brakes held up!!!!!