BuckeyeZ06

Double National at Sebring this weekend.

Today was the first session of qualifying for both days, the morning was for Saturday, afternoon for Sunday. We get to try again in the morning of each day.

First qualifying session:

STO
1. Henry Gilbert C5 2:15.424
2. Bob Mayer C6 2:17.787
3. Jerry Onks C6Z 2:17.958
4. David Pintaric Viper 2:19.955
5. David MacNeil 430 CS 2:23.754
6. Rodney Williamson C5 (I think) 2:32.616
7. John Yarocz 2:22.886 (JY had car issues, all fixed tho)
8 Jimmy McAndrew ? 2:38.605

T1
1. Chris Ingle C6 LS3 2:18.743

I don't have the afternoon results, but remember that Yarocz leapfrogged me, but otherwise things were similar to the first session.

PushinTheLimit

Looks like Chris could run midpack in T1 trim with STO right now. That LS3 looks pretty strong.

And a C5 leading in qualifying? That's pretty sweet. Good luck guys!

bosco022

I may be wrong, but I believe Rodney Williamson runs a Mustang Cobra.

Short-Throw

MacNeil should pick up a little time. It's his first time driving the 430 and he hasn't been to Sebring in almost 10 years.

It's been cold there, how's the track holding up?

Mike

V8 Juice

"how's the track holding up?" Probably OK without the Beast tearing it up!

bearnest

How many T1 cars showed up?

BuckeyeZ06

Just Chris.

Yes, David will get faster. He was puttering around learning the line from Mark Boden.

I wasn't following anyone, so I had to learn this track on my own. It can be intimidating in some places...I ran a 17.7 during my fourth session yesterday, but couldn't duplicate today because of traffic.

Racer-38

The C5 isn't STO legal. He's running slicks and a motor. Henry is just trying to keep his National license...he'll pull over before the race starts or ends. The Ferrari is absolutely gorgeous!!! I think MacNeil's son or brother or somebody w/the same name is running a T2 BMW. And they are both teamed with a GT2 porsche. All 3 cars are immaculately prepared. Yaroz is the class of the field. He turned the wick up in the afternoon qualifying turning a 2:15.9. He is going to be tough to beat.
No problems with the track.

Chris is the only T1 car......he is extremely fast and very lonely.

Short-Throw

That's his son Cooper running the T2 car. Cooper ran in ITS last year with a 325i. Dave campaigned it last year and upgraded to the 430. The GT2 is a Cup car Dave drove last year (and ran against me at an enduro with his driving partner by a guy named Pobst.)

He keeps all of his cars pristine and these are just a few.



Were you able to go flat out through Bishops Bend?

Good luck tomorrow!


Mike

offshore241

Way to go Jerry !! Nice run out of the box.

Bruce

Racer Buzz

What's the weather report today from Sebring Int'l?
Raining? Cold? Racing on black ice? Radiators and inlets all taped up? Got your double or triple layers of Nomex underwear on? I was going to drive up to watch but looks way to painful, weather wise.

C66 Racing

Thanks for the update David. Good luck to all down there. Not sure it got over freezing up here today - hope its a little better down there for you.

Fast-Eddie

Report from impound at Sebring:

STO:

Jerry Onks 1st
Bob Mayer 2nd

Pintaric and Yarocz got into each other, don't know how bad.

BuckeyeZ06

Yep, I got into John while passing Jerry. Ran out of talent on that one. If John wasn't there, the pass was a good one...but that's like saying "officer, if the tree wasn't there I wouldn't have hit it..."

I was so concerned about touching the other cars during the start, there are some really neat entries in this class, and look what I go and do. John's car is a work of art, he and I were admirring it earlier in the day. I am so sick.

John was gentleman enough to accept my apologies, but boy was he pissed off (and rightfully so). His car needs a front nose, probably a splitter, and I think Kurt told me an upright.

Mine (not that it matters)? Just a front bumper cover.

I tapped John in the right rear going into Turn 7. He took the "tradtional" line and I overshot it passing Jerry. He spun around and we touched nose-to-nose, that's where the big damage was caused.

My bad, and like I said, I am sick about it.

The only upside to this day is that STO is such a cool class. Porsche Cup cars, Ferraris, Vettes and Vipers. A true Super Car class.

BTW, I did end up finishing third, and ran some 2:16.5s during the race...I qualified with a high 2:18.

Short-Throw

Thanks for the report Dave. Sorry to hear about the contact.

Was Saturday's race in the rain? I heard that the GT2 placed 1st with the 430 2nd.

Anyone show up to keep Chris company in T1?


Mike

wtknght1

Nope...not a soul (sole). The upside is that I now have my 4 races to qual for the runoffs, so for the rest of the year, I can just test...or maybe run STO and qualify for that too. Hmmmm

SIK02SS

STO/T1 are still slotted for the same run group for Runoffs I think Chris..


but it would be fun

wtknght1

Well if you believe all the BS hype, the LS3 is so fast, that I'll have time to win T1 and get into an STO car and still win it. HA!

Racer-38

I gotta tell you Chris, I walked over with the guys to watch group 2 race...................and at the end of this 50 car +++ field, we see you go by. Can you imagine what some of those guys in Grp 2 are saying..."yeah we smoked a T1 corvette in our group"

Smart move on your part working that out with the stewards I was sitting on the grid for our race, when across the radio comes " there goes Chris going home" You probably picked up 2-3 hours!!!

96CollectorSport

Congrats Jerry!!!
That's got to feel good to get a win 2nd time out in the new car.

Sorry to hear about the incident, but as they say that's racing.
I'm looking forward to seeing what some of these STO cars will do at Road America come June.

Hey Chris maybe they'll finally give the LS3 a break since it couldn't even keep up with the Group 2 cars Good move saving the car