sundiego

is now under new management and called Monterey Motorsports reunion.

It is much more Corvette friendly. In the Cobra/GT350/ Mid year Vette group there are 11 Corvettes.

In the IMSA GTO group there are 6 Corvettes.

It's on this weekend and well worth going to.

63Corvette

Sorry but I can't agree. After what they did to Steve Earle, I can't see going back.

folsomlarry

We will be there tomorrow in the Corvette Corral.

Larry

joemoia

Garrett,

Sorry you're not here this year. There seems to be a lot more cars running:

40 big bore trans-am

20 2.0L trans-am in a seperate race

40 1920's-1930's Bugattis in their own race

35+ 1970's-1980's F1 GP cars

Plus all of the usual suspects in the other groups

rustyguns

sounds like a lot of fun!

63Corvette

Joe I will talk with Terry, Susan, Lynn and other competitors and make my decision on whether or not to apply for next year, but for many reasons, I just decided not to bother this year. Good, safe racing to all

Z11409

And in September--

http://www.fleetweeksandiego.org/events/speed-week.html

joemoia

Garrett,

I don't know how the competitors felt about it, but from a spectator standpoint SCRAMP did a good job:


There were more competitors (600+ entries)

There was more racing (19 races, with 5 lap qualifying races in the Sat/Sun morning sessions)

There was less dead time/demo laps

There was less dust/smoke from the vendor area blowing across the track into T4-T5 grandstand area


Rob Walton in a Daytona Coupe beat Terry Gough in the GT group (I don't know how a Daytona coupe ended up in that race, IMO it should have been in the FIA group with the GT40s)

There was one scary moment on Saturday, as a 3 car incident going into T2 ended with John Morton flipping over in a Scarab. luckily he was reported as OK (he raced on Sunday) but the Scarab now needs a major new restoration

63Corvette

Hi Joe,

Yes, Rob Walton is a very good driver who also has some neat cars. Personally, I think that Terry Gough is the best "driver" in our group. I believe that the Scarab that John Morton drove is also owned by Rob....glad to hear that John is OK. I will look for the Monterey race on speed, and hope that Forum members will post if they find out when it will be shown. I will probably apply next year. My wife and I just retired and moved back home to Texas, so the logistics as well as other reasons made it impractical for us to go this year. Glad to hear that it is still a good event.

sundiego

Sept 17th on Speed

There were many changes, and in the words of a veteran of more Montereys than me, none were steps backward.

Steve Earle will always be one of the fathers of American Vintage racing. The new batch at Monterey is copying some of the best ideas from other events.

John Morton could have raced on Sun, but decided not to. The Scarab he was driving is owned by the Collier Museum. A car spun in front of him and bounced off the rail into him. His car flipped and broke in two.

I ran my Red Lobster March GTP, with a 366 Chevy. I got up to 6th, in the middle of 962s, and the clutch started slipping, so I dropped out.

63Corvette

Sundiego thanks for the update. I'll look for ya on Sept 17th Glad you had a good run.
Again, I'm glad that John is OK. Sorry about the Scarab though.
Garrett