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Leading up to the Mosport Race had me doing the same things as usual. Watching last year’s, changing the oil, cleaning the fuzzy stuff out of the camel back that was left in the trailer with Gatorade in it, Oh and waiting for Andy to give me the expected weather in Bowmanville, Ontario. This was the first race we have done in a while where there was absolutely no rain in the forecast. It ended up sprinkling on Friday night but no big deal. An added plus to this year’s race was that the Marshall brothers (Case and James) were coming. We don’t see them much anymore. The down side is they are both very fast. So on Thursday Andy and I arrived at the track around 2:30 in the afternoon during the Test and Tune Day and had to wait for a break in the action for them to let us across the track. A spinning Cup Car provided our break and we only waited about 20 minutes. Because I was donating some “Life at Redline” shirts for the raffle, Susan Davis roped off a large section in the lower paved paddock for our trailer as well as the Marshall’s 4-car trailer and Kenworth Toter Home. James pulled in around 4:30 and Jeff McCarthy about 5:30. There we were in our own little caravan. Five F-class cars all lined up in front of my trailer. The Marshall’s matching 944 S2’s, Jeff McCarthy’s 968, Andy’s Carrera and my 944 Turbo. Our other friend Chris Reinsborough’s C4 was over with Spencer’s crew with the Farnsbacher/Loles group. The race group for us included E-class cars down to J-class cars and GT6. The one guy we feared was Terry Heath in his 1991 S2. Typically he is always up front and this weekend we got a taste of why that was so. That guy is the most aggressive racer I have ever been on the track with. I was among a handful of racers that he put off the track. Fortunately he put me off in 5B and I was able to avoid the wall and just ride the gravel for a while and that was the fun race. At least one other racer was not as lucky and stuffed the wall on the right side of Turn 4, Ouch! The following run times show how different people get faster as the weekend progresses and how some drivers get faster in actual race environment. On Friday morning we hit the track for Practice One. Up until this time the best time I had on this track was a 1:40.1 and Andy’s was a 1:38.2. After Practice One F-class looked like
this.
Out of 15 F-class cars we were 1-6. At this time Terry Heath was MIA. Practice Two I was still the pokey one
in the group.
Now it was time to get rid of the older set of Hoosiers I got from Andy on my heavy C2 wheel that I put on to save my slightly used set and the my new set for the race. Practice Three I moved a bit.
Next and the final track session of Friday was the Practice Starts and Fun Race. The following is in order of finishing with fast lap times afterwards. The faster lap times mean nothing but just put in to show the current times achieved. 1. Terry Heath shows up - 1:37.237
Saturday starts with a warm-up before Qualifying.
Andy and I were both breaking in brand new Hoosiers. I encountered a slight
difficulty as I headed for the grid. The Moton Shocks I put on the car
do not have the ledge for the concentric nut and washer to rest against
and to also change the camber by turning the nut and washer. The Moton
rely solely on the tightness of the bolts. Well this proved to be a problem
for a while.
1. Terry Heath - 1:37.828
Jeff was starting to suffer from a warped rotor on the left front and he was not happy. Now the order comes down. It was up to
me to hold up Chris Reinsborough as long as possible. Even though he is
our buddy we still plotted against him because he is real fast and very
hard to get by. Well that plan failed when I got out on the track for the
pace lap and realized the tire had fallen back against the spring and it
was dragging an anchor trying to get off of the corners.
1. Terry Heath
So about this time I am bumming because
I had a nice shot at a podium and lost it. This time when I fixed it I
used an impact wrench and a breaker bar and that solved the problem.
1. Andy Jenks - 1:38.811
All pretty close! In the race I get past Jeff after about
3 laps and I am in pursuit of Andy just ahead. For 30 minutes the running
order was Chris Castagna (C-class), Ernie Jakubowski (G-class), Chris Reinsborough,
Andy Jenks and myself. The rest had dropped back about 15 seconds. Every
once in a while I would catch Andy only to have him drop an I-car bomb
on me. Working our way through traffic I was able to get by all the bombs
Andy left for me except one. On the back straight Andy got by a slower
F-class 968 and I caught him in Turn 8 and could not get by until the apex
of Turn 10. By this time I was about 1 or 2 seconds behind Andy and that
was going to be tough to overcome since we were running very similar lap
times.
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