Racer-38

Damn it was freaking hot today!! My exhaust runs inside the car and turns out thru the passenger door. 90' outside and I bet it was over 130' in my car.
I thought Jerry and I would have a better race than we did, our lap times are always really close. For the first 3 laps or so, we had a GT1 car get in between our fight. I would get past it, and then the long straight would come and it would go shooting by me....probably 20mph faster...then I would work like hell to repass it and catch up to Jerry. He eventually got too far ahead to catch, then I started overheating and the fight was over. I backed off, put it in 4th and drove around. Crew chief thinks maybe we blew a head gasket. Jerry on the last lap broke something on the rear suspension (spring?) and the whole back of the car was sitting on the rear tires. If the race had been one more lap I don't think he would have made it. Results:
1: Onks 1.31.099 C6 Z06
2: Mayer 1.30.816 C6 WC vette
3. Lewis 1.36.283 C6 Z06
4. Brooks 1.36.355 C6 Vette
5. Vincion 1.36.728 C4 Vette

AU N EGL

sspeed30043

Hey, I am the guy who came over noseying around your car yesterday, I have the C6 chassis in my basement, looks like I am gonna get to start on building my car soon... Maybe next year I can run with all of ya.

Racer-38

here is some video of the start of the race:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhCE6bLu9c4

Jason

congrats Jerry!

wtknght1

Congrats Jerry!!! Looks like you guys still had some fun!!

Hey Bob, did any T1 cars show up?

MYRX

Good race Jerry. I enjoyed meeting you this weekend. Looks like the brakes you were testing paid off.

SouthernSon

Congratulations, Jerry.

Racer-38

Nope!! Kind of depressing.

BuckeyeZ06

Tell me about it. SCCA gives the C5 gang everything they want (brakes and headers) and how do they respond? By sitting in the garage! Nice.

Kubs

Nice job Jerry! Nice video bob.

WBHighwind

Always love videos from Road Atlanta. I cant wait to get back over there in June.

dsanders

Who’s sitting in the garage????

Jason

134mph, offline, into T1. Yeehaw!

BuckeyeZ06

David, the T1 turnout has been terrible. I would have expected a much better response after the new rules were announced. Granted the economy is miserable, but geez, 0 cars at Road Atlanta? That's a premier track!

SIK02SS

Apparently "they're" all out here in CA since 5 of us have been racing monthly since January, and 2 of us finally got our cars ready enough to race last month. Sorry, but blanket statements don't count for everybody.

BERETTA

Thanks for posting the video!
Congrats Jerry

AU N EGL

Or is it the potential NEW T1 guys have gone to NASA to race ST2 ?

wtknght1

That's because there are no (or very few) new cars coming into the class. I've been telling this to the CRB for the past 2+ years. Racing classes are like a society - you must have "new births" for a society to survive. Right now, there are basically no "new births," so T1 is slowly dying.

Why? - because of the bad board decisions, hamstringing, and poor performance of the new cars. If you were thinking about coming into T1, you probably wouldn't go out and buy a 10-year old C5...you'd try to look for a newer machine that would last for a while and that wouldn't require a lot of maintenance. But, the new cars haven't done well and you must run a sump, etc. just to get it to survive.

And if you did want an older car (because there's more of them), you must spend $$ to upgrade brakes, headers (with their associated problems), etc. The C5 is still a monster car at any track, but at THE track (Road America), no C5 really showed that well.

Unless the cheaper T1 cars start to show better at RA, people will spend the $$ and go STO. T1 was designed to be a relatively cheap, low maintenance, low mods SS class with close racing. With the million dollar 430 and monster Viper running away at 1.5+ seconds per lap at last year's Runoffs, the board has their work cut out for them to equalize the field.

sperkins