sperkins

Anyone at the track that can post updates?

96CollectorSport

Yeah

I'm assuming the factory Viper with Kuno Wittmer, the Phil Currin Challenger and Skeen's Challenger are duking it out for the top spot.

I see Farmer, drivinhard, and Woods from the the forum are all in attendence.

Best of luck

Jason

Everyone's head probably popped like a melon in the heat.

varkwso

Dang close.

Phil Currin in the Challenger was top dawg ~1:53. Factory backed Viper ACR X was the top Varsity with a ~1:54.

David Farmer, Drivinhard and a few other Vettes were running. I did not see the sheets - David did a ~2:05 and Drivinhard ~2:05 from talking to them. Grip was not great.

Clay had a left front hub failure and wheel came off his C5Z - not sure if he was in UTCC or not. All we could do was offer condolences and offer him the shade of Khois easyup to do the hub replacement.

drivinhard

here's the results

http://www.mylaps.com/results/showrun.jsp?id=1604728

some seriously high hp cars, I couldn't believe how fast some of them went by me on the straights, and I never lifted for any of them.

the track was way slick today, I put on sticker 295 A6's for the first timed session and they felt as bad as the 275 scrubs that came off. and sticker A6's never feel bad.

had a blast running with farmer, he was on old junk tires, we both were pretty sideways during that 2nd session but dave had already changed rears and said it was an improvement.

I need more seat time at VIR (my 3rd visit there today), I learned a lot just riding behind farmer.

102F on the external temp during one timed session when I noticed

I figure 2:02s in the fall when it's cooler maybe? car felt like a dog on the straights, just no power in the heat

sperkins

Great job guys. Glad to hear y'all made it through the day without any casualties - man or car.
Hate it that it was so brutally hot out there and grip was lacking. Good luck for those of you that are running tomorrow.

Woods

I got 9th overall with a 2:03.5 and Second place in Independent Varsity class, Self prepared. In 100+ degree weather it was hard to drive both mentally and physically. 1st Place in this class was won by a Kit car called a Super Stalker which has a LS3 vette motor in a Lotus super 7 type chassis. The weather was over 100 degree and I saw 295 degrees on oil temp and 6 PSI oil pressure coming off the track hot and thats with a ARE dry sump.

I finally got to meet and chat with Dave F. Great guy and very knowlegable. I have yet to run in to driven hard

varkwso

Nice job. Drivinhard will be getting to the track about 0650 today if you are here for the weekend. I am close to the grid in a silver 98 Coupe.

Woods

I was scheduled for NASA TTU this weekend but I think I hurt the motor and called it. Drove home last night 5 hrs...drink lots of water and watch your car temps....good luck

sperkins

Sorry to hear about your troubles Michael. Hopefully it's not as bad as you think.

Saw where drvinhard did a 2:06 flat today in TTA with scrub 275 skinnies and an extra 80lbs over yesterday - good for 3rd overall FTD beating out a lot of good cars.

Congrats to David Farmer also with a 2:06 flat and 2nd overall FTD.


Any other interesting news from the day?



Here's a couple of pretty cool videos that GRM put together from yesterday.

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/utcc/updates/

Greywolfe

Nice job Mark. Very impressive.

drivinhard

I have a student with an '86 Corolla GTS (the old rwd hatchback ones) that's stripped to the bone, 2200 lbs w/ driver, runs little 13" legends Hoosier slicks, dang thing must corner @ 2 G. lol. it's frigging awesome. I was having as much fun riding with him as driving. guy's got an S2000 motor swap for it, thing is gonna be a rocket with another 100 hp. he's gonna be in TT soon as he gets his checkride, hopefully in a few events. look out TTD or wherever this thing lands!

drivinhard

Found your race shop yesterday. Nice building neighbors, 1 stop shopping

varkwso

It was a good day - but it was hot. Traffic was impressive in TT. Congrats to the fast times

My Mustang student blew his engine yesterday.

AU N EGL

RogueVette

Wish we could have made it down there in either Danny's ST1 car or James's ST2 car both have run sub 2's in that crazy VIR heat.

Oh well a TTS/ST2 record on the Club Course at M-O will have to do

We'll be back there next year for the UTCC. Jeff thanks for showing Clay some hospitality after his 150mph, 3 wheeled, no brakes bull ride

Congrats to Woods on the top 10 finish!

sperkins

That's awesome. At first glance I thought it was another one of your famous photochops, but that's a real sign.

http://www.perkinsracing.com/collectables/default.htm

Woods

[/QUOTE]Congrats to Woods on the top 10 finish![/QUOTE]

Thanks a 2:03 in the heat was about as fast I could go. I was consistant and ran 2:03's on all 3 events. The track actually got slower as the day progressed.

Thanks to the DRM coilover shocks running in 100+ degree heat against NO BS Pro drivers, car control was essential.

I was on Hoosier A's and I don't think they were the tire to be on. The track was slick from the start on Friday.

I was wondering if anyone was smart enough to run on R's this week end? and how they felt?

I have some in car video and will post a link when I can. stay tuned

drivinhard

the heat was brutal all weekend, just brutal. got to meet a few more faces and names, which is always good.

I look forward to going back in some cooler months to hopefully drop some times, but I will never instruct/TT for NASA MA ever again. It's pathetic how they treat their TT instructors.

managed a 2:05.3 today getting hung up behind a miata at the top of esses and passing on the inside @ 10. I'd say there's a 2:01 in TTA in cool air, without any aero, you can only go through the esses so fast

I think I learned more riding behind Farmer for the few laps we did than the previous 2 visits.

I need to go there for a 2 day event with a trailer full of tires and brake pads and turn 70 laps a day.

I am totally diggin the Quartermaster cluch

davidfarmer

it was a miserable weekend....still fun, but absolutely miserable. Pulled the car out and immediately noticed my right-rear tire was chorded. Moments later I realized I had left my helmet at home! I should have just packed up and left.......

Anyway, car was a mess on the chorded tire, so I stuck some borrowed 295 R6's on the back (marked with 14 heat cycles) and while drivability improved, my lap times actually got worse.

I must say the UTCC format is really unimpressive.....45mph pace car and required 3 car length spacing pretty much ruins the first lap, and I only drive 1 lap generally. That combined with some fast, yet idiotic, drivers, really took the fun out of it for me.

The rest of the weekend was OK, enjoyed a little driving and helping students, but the heat was really unbearable. I don't know what kind of gravel they use at VIR, but at 5:30PM on Saturday, my thermometer read 107º in the SHADE!