VIR 13hr

Anyone going? I'll be racing SM #74 with Long Road Racing. Testing tomorrow. Qualifying and night practice Friday. Race 9a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.

Phil

I'll be there ... crew / timing and scoring for a SSM Miata

I wish I was going to be there, I was out for the race/prod-fest (AKA funny little old car show) crewing for a bright orange FP 914 that had pretty piss poor luck (shifter linkage and puked it's 3rd clutch slave cylinder O-ring since April of this year) right up until the race, when it actually finished and finished fairly well. school is keeping me in Richmond this weekend, though, unfortunately :(

I'll be there crewing for ITB #13, Douglas Racing. Too bad we're down to 2 in class :-/

Wish I was gonna be there. Ran it in '07 and last year. Absolutely FANTASTIC track to drive.

wbjones wrote: I'll be there ... crew / timing and scoring for a SSM Miata # 73

and I'm home ( 4 hr drive .. 2 1/2 hrs before the race ends )

5th hr ... we done blowed up

WE WON IT!!!! 9th overall, 1st SM! WOOHOO!!!

Congrats on the win. We were there as well. I was crewing for 2 cars entered by CSR. We won our class in STU and finished 4th overall with Esbanlaub and Putman and Jim Jordan driving.

Very unfortunate to hear of the death at Automatic Racing.

In reply to DukeOfUndersteer:

Yeah, that is sad. Condolences to his family and friends. I didn't find out until after the race. At least he went out doing what he loved.

In reply to DukeOfUndersteer:

Congrats on your win as well!

In reply to CGLockRacer:

Thanks. Nice to come away with a class win after all the crap weather. My toes are still numb...

We won ITB..and beat all of ITA... and all of ITS. Douglas Racing put together a great car, all the crew did was show up, dump gas in it, and needlessly change a few tires.

I hated to hear about the death. :-/. We were hoping for 300 laps, which had never been done by an ITB car, but that 40 minute stop killed that idea.

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: Very unfortunate to hear of the death at Automatic Racing.

What happened?!

In reply to pigeon:

Medical issue while racing. No crash. The car coasted to a stop in Oak Tree turn and rolled back down the hill and came to a stop off track.

In reply to tpwalsh:

Congrats on the win!

In reply to CGLockRacer:

And Congrats to you too. We were really hoping for a top 20, but it didn't quite work out that way.

We were pitted next to 57(the 2nd place car). They were on pins and needles for the last hour. First they thought that SLC would overtake them, then Bimmerworld blasted by them. Sucks that they came all the way from Montreal just to take 2nd.

CGLockRacer wrote: In reply to pigeon: Medical issue while racing. No crash. The car coasted to a stop in Oak Tree turn and rolled back down the hill and came to a stop off track.

word has it that there was a heart attack .... this is 2nd/3rd hand info ... take it for what it's worth

CGLockRacer wrote: WE WON IT!!!! 9th overall, 1st SM! WOOHOO!!!

well done... I've seen LRR at lots of races over the last few yrs .. I crew for Dave Brown Motorsports ... 3 SRF's

again ... congrats....

So far I have 136 of my photos posted;

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v246/GARRA20/SCCA_13Hour_VIR_2011/?start=all

Plus, I have sent a few originals along to our staff here at GRM in the hope they'll publish one or more. I'll put more up later, but if anyone is interested in photos of a particular car ot team, let me know as I probably have a couple decent for for you.

And so sad to hear of Mark Hillestad. My prayers and best wishes go out to his family, friends and racing partners.

Sput