“We did great at Speedway”
Saturday June 5th Doug and Loren participated in the Porsche Owners Club 18th annual “Tribute to Le Mans” in Loren’s newly completed Porsche 997 RSR. It started it’s life off as a 2006 GT3 Cup car and was recently updated to RSR specs with a 4 liter engine and new body work, wheels and suspension. The car had some new car handling issues all weekend but buy the time we got to the race it was working pretty well. We qualified 3rd overall. Loren was late getting to the grid so we started last for the race. 20 minutes into the race Loren was able to work his way up to the lead after a good battle with Robert Dalrymple for first place.
We came in for our first pit stop and our strategy was to do a fuel only stop which worked very well. This put us up almost a whole lap on the field 20 minutes after the pit stop. Unfortunately at that point Loren drove off the track and hit one of the water barriers slightly damaging the car but worst of all the car got stuck in the barrier for about 3 minutes. Loren returned to the pits and after a few minutes in the pits our crew chief Mike Fox determined the car was safe to return to the track.
After 2 hours and 20 minutes Loren turned the car over to Doug. Doug proceeded to set some very fast lap times with the car equal to our qualifying time. Then Doug was black flagged for a “dangling” left rear flair from the accident. We used it to our advantage and fueled the car for the final time and Doug went back out in second place.
Loren and Doug finished first in class and second over all. The winners were Robert Dalrymple, Steve Goldman and Bob Fieta in Roberts 997 RSR.
“This was one of the most exciting races in years for me” commented Doug after the race. “It was pretty embarrassing driving off the track from the lead of the race but Doug did a great job during his stint. It was great driving with Doug again in the Tribute to Le Mans. This was a great tune up for the Miller Motorsports American Le Mans race coming up July 11th” Loren commented.
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