PaPaBear

Nothing sounds like this car ripping RPM'S. I hope they get it together for the balance of the schedule. They still have a chance.

rotary crazy

Iowa pics, the team is really looking strong in practice, lets all wish them good luck!

Razz1

Trmblay gets hit by Vette.

They repair the bent tie rod and are back in the race.

unreal89

I just found this race on speed and noticed there was an rx8 getting fixed. Just curious if its doing any good against the others.

ryan031581

Looked there for a second that Paul Edwards was going to fall back, but it looks like they are back on track.

If your not familiar with this series, here is a link to the point standings. Notice Sylvian Tremblay in 4th place. That is the driver of the rx8.

Tough day for those guys.

http://www.grand-am.com/CONTENT/Docs...r%20Points.pdf

ryan031581

Paul Edwards is out now. Good news for the #70

hogcar

Nick was driving not Syl.

Razz1

Ja your right just wanted to see if anyone was paying attention.

They got more point for the championship. Yea!

rotary crazy

Bad luck!, its going to make the run for the chanpionship much harder

Wing5

Any videos? Perhaps YouTube?

rotary crazy

next race this weeckeng, starting fryday with practice and qualifying

LETS WISH THE GUYS GOOD LUCK!!

PaPaBear

These guys have a had a rough time with accidents and spin outs. It wil take a miracle for them to come out on top now. This car is definitely better suited for the bigger tracks with longer straightaways. Great top end power but lacking lower end torque coming out of tight corners. Their attribute of low weight has helped them tremendously. I am still healing from my broken ankle and will miss Chin this weekend at Homestead. This is the second time i have missed track time, always due to some BS. How are things in the DR? I am heading for Antigua, Guatemala the end of the month for the Apparel Summit of the Americas and expect several people from the DR to attend.

rotary crazy

I think the problem with small tight tracks is the tires, they have smaller tires than the rest of the field, at least thats one of the problems

Things here are fine, a lot of political stuff going on as allways but generally is fine, the apparel busines is not doing great here, the aparrel and clothes free zones are in deep trouble, but it is more a polytical problem than anything else, the rest of the economy is doing OK, this goberment is known for economic stability an growth

rotary crazy

theres always a short video on the gran am site check it out http://www.grand-am.com/Home.asp

PaPaBear

I know Hanes closed down some factories there but are opening others in the DR. I have setup several of my customers with factories and mosr recently a hugh government and private sector manufacturer is setting up a factory in one of the Free Zones. I have fought to keep manufacturing in our region that uses U.S. raw materials and keep the work out of China. I appeal to the government to support our democratic neighbors working as it creates bad will to see the U.S. giving so much to a communist nation that cannot be trusted.

rotary crazy

your efforts are welcome we need all the help we can get, it is hard to see so many people out of work, close to 75,000 people in my town Santiago wich is a small town and this jobs really hurd the economy here, its good news to hear that there are going to be some new plants opening here, again thanks for the help

Dont get me started on china, I really think its a time bomb that will eventually bite all of us in the rear

PaPaBear

Let me know if you are in Miami and have a chance to visit our firm. We opened a new building in Flagler Station (previously Gran Park). New park, few buildings ,great curvey roads. We work with almost every manufacturer except Levi's. I did get word today that VF Jeanswear(Wrangler) is moving woven production to Haiti with new provisions for wovens. This work was being done in Mexico and China. You are very right, China is a threat to our region in many ways.

rotary crazy

I will be in miami in september but only for a few minutes on my way to sevenstock , but I have a long overdue visit to the guys at pettit racing and speedsource, so I will let you know when will be in town, you never know we may end up helping each other out

I do have some free zone busineses but in the packeging and cigar area, my very close friend was one of the main owners of one of the plants that close down Interamericana, they made goods for hanes and levi's

bern

rough day today at Barber... #70 finished 5th, Edwards 4th, and Werner 23rd. Sylvain is 21 points back in the championship with two rounds left.

-Bern

dgarvich

Both times they were one place higher going into the last turn on the last lap... The first race (ST) a Z4 punked the rear quarter panel to get the Speedsource car loose in the last turn... just enough to pass him.

Great races all day for every place other than 1st, which was a run-away in both races.

rotary crazy

really hard race, tremblay look like he was ready to faint in the interview, just completly exhausted

lesper4

iTrader: (3)

race was awesome but that pontaic was just perfect all day. too bad the 70 was all used up by the end of the race. trembley did a great job though.

chkrd_flag

Thanks for remembering the little brother SpeedSource ST effort...

With the busy schedule I hadn't been able to even lurk here lately, bt got an email reminder and decided to drop in.

BTW, the BMW received a 30 second penalty for unnecessary contact and that dropped them back to fourth. The #69 SpeedSource Koni Challenge car finished 3rd officially. Still very much in contention for driver and team championships in ST, only 18 points out of first with three races remaining. Fingers crossed.

rotary crazy

chkrd_flag are you the same one thaqt post on the speed forum?

Im really impress with what you guys are doing in ST, even with a rules package that does not help the RX-8 your up there in the championship, under amazing odds

Congrats!!! And good luck!!!

chkrd_flag

Yep.. I'm the same chkrd_flag form the SpeedTV boards

Thanks... it's been an interesting season for us, for sure. As far as the rules, I think Grand-Am's doing a pretty good job of balancing the field. The one thing that is great about our little car is that it seems to get better the further into the fuel run, where many others (especially the FWD cars) get slower. Some tracks are also really good for the RX-8 Mid-Ohio and Barber are both good for us and I expect us to be really, really good at Trois-Rivieres. The team has had good results in ST at Miller and VIR also, so I'm pretty optimistic about the remainder of the schedule.

As far as where we're at in the championship, it's entirely due to the team. There's no more professional a team in Grand-Am than SpeedSource when it comes to building, preparing and supporting the team's cars. Mazda and the RX-8are well represented by the team, and I'm just lucky enough to be a part of that.