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Porsche club racers were treated to a fantastic weekend at Mosport recently. The weather was bright, warm and the hospitality of the Upper Canada Region was fantastic. Unfortunately our team’s racing ended during the third practice on Saturday. On lap three of that session we ran well enough to capture the pole for the “fun race” on lap four a cloud of blue smoke ended our weekend. Hero to zero in two laps! Readers of the recent article John Ktistes and I wrote as a primer on club racing will remember my “big bang” theory. What happened was not as bad as it could have been but does qualify as less than pleasant learning experience I share so others might learn. Building race motors off the 964 block is quite common. When the machine shop prepped my 964 cylinder heads I was warned they were a weak link. I would definitely have to replace them after the first season. Well the service life estimate was a little optimistic. I knew that top pro teams that used to run the high HP 964 based 3.8 naturally aspirated motors replaced there heads at very short intervals I should have gone with the best from the get go. So lean from my mistake: I’LL BE BACK using the much more beefy 993 heads! Now for the good news, several area racers did very well. In the yellow group sprint Roy Chong was 1st in class and overall in his turbocharged GT3S, Steve Berlack was 2nd overall and 2nd in GT3S and 3rd overall and 1st in C-class was NER member Chris Castagna. Jim Newton came home 2nd in GT4S. Also taking class wins were Jim Hamblin in GT5S and Mike Trombly in D-stock In the Green Group sprint, Chris Reinsborough was 3rd in F-stock, Andy Jenks was 5th out of thirteen starters and the usually competitive Steve Boris unfortunately had to drop out of both races with mechanical woes. John Ktistes was on the E-stock podium with a well run third place finish. There was a spectacular crash (here is that darn big bang theory again!) on lap three of the Red group sprint, taking out two GT1R racers and a GTA. Jim Sullivan had an oil line failure causing a flash fire and lots of oil on the track. Gene McGillycuddy spun in the oil and flipped his beautiful GT3-cup based GT1R car. Luckily his car was not too heavily damaged and he was able to race the next day. Also loosing it in the oil and suffering moderate damage was Rick DeMann in his brand new GTA car. Gee: maybe my luck is not as bad as I thought, I could have well been in the middle of that mess!! On the bright side Spencer Cox ran a strong second in GTC3 and Patrick Martin was 4th as well as posting the fastest race lap for the class at 1:27.9 . Other class winners were Greg Brown was 1st in GT2R and Russ Castagna in GTC2. In the group 2 enduro Veilleux and Overing took the overall win and GTA with their American LeMans series prepped GT3rs. Rutner and McGillycuddy bounced back from their misfortune with 2nd overall and 1st in GT1R. DeMann and Pat Martin teamed up in Pat’s GTC3 car for 3rd overall and 1st in class. Jim Hamblin and Steve Berlack teamed up for the win in GT3S and 5th overall. Chris Musante and Wood were 2nd in 3S. Russ Castagna GTC2 and Jeff Burger GTC1 both won their classes. In the group 1 enduro Chris Castagna took the overall win in his C-stock class 930. As an FYI Chris ran a 1:30.6 in practice, compare that with the GTC3 time above and the fastest lap of the weekend a 1:24.9. Not bad. Chris Reinsborough and Andy Jenks finished 1-2 in F-stock. All in all a lot of familiar names did well on this great weekend. And except for the mechanical failure caused accident in the Red group race I’m aware of very few incidents during the weekend. I finish up with some interesting information I picked up in my reading on pro racing. Here are some comparative times and average speeds from the recent big weekend on the Watkins Glen short course. Tony Stewart in his 3600lb “stock car”
1:13.2 (122 MPH)
In closing I’d like to report a new record
was just set in Drag Racing. Tony Schumacher two-time and defending NHRA
Top Fuel world champion (I wonder if they are related?) set a one quarter
mile time of 4.446 seconds, reaching a speed of 337.58 MPH. Zero to 337
MPH in under four and a half seconds, pretty impressive!
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