REALRIDE
Willow Spring
8/13/2001
by: Realride.com Staff
Well, we just got back from the NASA race at Willow Springs one day early.
The team suffered a major set back on Saturday. The #47 car with Tim driving
was coasting to a 2nd in Super Unlimited with 2 laps to go when a lapped car
stalled in the middle of Turns 2-3. At 120mph, with his line committed, Tim
tried his best to turn down the inside of the lapped car as it was stalled
across the middle of the track (facing traffic) with the driver trying to
restart it. Unfortunately, the left quarter panel of our car collected his
and both cars ended up in a tangle of twisted metal. Both Tim and the other
driver are OK, he's a bit sore today but otherwise fine. The car
unfortunately is a wreck. Race control reports confirmed that there was NO
Yellow as it was in a blind spot to all the corner marshalls.
eanwhile, car #46 with Benny driving was running extremely well and was
slicing trough traffic up to second in the Super Unlimited class. The battle
was heating up between Benny's Rx7, 3 Mustangs and a Camaro forming a 5 car
train with no more than 10 feet between each of them (Average speed of 120
MPH). Suddenly out of Turn 9, a 100 mph corner, all 5 cars went into multiple
spins. Thru a huge cloud of dust the Camaro appeared followed by the yellow
Pennyweb Rx7, this was definitely worth the $10 admission fee. After 30
minutes of battle, Benny's engine overheated and blew out the seals. The
engine is shot but after a very hard season of development where it suffered
multiple over eating's, we're surprised that it made it this far. Elsewhere,
Miguel Escobar representing RealRide/Pennyweb in his ITA/PS-2 VW Golf threw a
rod in his brand new engine. Don Mock, also representing RealRide/Pennyweb in
his ITA/PS-2 Honda CRX ran a very respectable 3rd in Saturday's sprint race.
On Sunday, Don showed his muscle by taking a 2nd in Class, right behind the
PS-2 Honda CRX of multiple-time SCCA National Champion Ron Haase.
Congratulations go out to Don.
Saturday's sprint race was won by John Lindsey in his American Iron Extreme F
ord Mustang amid the 116 degree track temperatures. Evan Gardner won Sunday's
sprint race in his RealRide.com Racing decaled Mazda Rx7. Congratulations go
out to them as well.
RealRide/Pennyweb
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