anyone going to be there besides me????

last year it was 15 bucks. park where you want in the infield. full garage access. lots of prototype and gt practice to watch...

race starts at 2:15..

forecast sunny and cool.. hi in the 60s....

beers

 

you need the coilover setup they run on your car

https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-racing-25/teamrx8-part-out-135871/

 

i really really dont.. i have no talent and a ok with that... if you want i could pimp it for you in homestead.. i will be there for the race in march...

beers

 

I'll be there. My buddy and will be there the whole weekend. I'll have a ROAR hat on. We have to cheer on the RX-8's.

 

check pm.. i will give you my cell.. give me a ring.. i should be there by 10:30

beers

 

Someone who went tell me what the hell happened on the 1st lap!!! From what I can gather the #69 Speedsource car and the #29 Porsche type unit had an incident?

 

they got in to each other at the entry of the east hairpin... the 69 left on a flat bed.

beers

 

Haskel was driving. One the way into the horseshoe, him and an acura went together. I don't know if the acura or someone else helped him around, but he went sideways and the 29 Acura went into the side of him. Broken suspension made the 69 retire. He was PISSED, as I would be too. He was throwing gloves on the ground and very upset. The driver of the 29 had to be ambulanced out though, so hopefully he is ok.

Here's the 29 aftewards, the 69 was covered up.



Anyone want a Certified Preowned Acura???

 

damn it i was trying to get out to daytona and couldnt find anyone to go with... hit me up on a pm and i will give you guys my number to see if i can meet up with you (spoolinmazda on the ga site, jpatanio flrx8club site)

 

funny how we miss stuff...

miami in march.... spoolinmazda????


beers

 

Actually, it wasn't Haskell in the #69 at the start, it was yours truly

Here's how it happened from where I was sitting...

I started from the inside of the fourth row and we all got cleanly through turn 1 - I was side by side with the ROAR # 62 car I got cleanly past the #62 and took the inside line going into the braking zone for turn 3 (Intl. Horseshoe). I had a run on the 01 car, but Jamie Holtom slid over to protect the inside - which was perfectly clean and to be expected, so I just had to check up a little. Whoever was behind and slightly to the left of my car at that very moment got into me enough to lift and push the rear of the car to the right, putting me into a slide to the left, across the track - at which point the #29 Acura made heavy contact with his front right to my left rear. The impact took us both into the ARMCO barrier on the left. My car bounced off the armco and I tried to get going again, but as soon as I got it in gear and started rolling, the car was crabbing very badly - both front and rear corners were damaged and the LR brake line was cut. I pulled it off at the emergency gate in turn 3 and got out after talking to the team on the radio. And yeah, I was pretty upset and did throw my gloves... it's really upsetting at the moment to have the entire team put three month's of work into getting the car ready for the race, spending all of the practice and qualifying babying and taking care of the car in order for it to be perfect for the race and then have something like that happen all because somebody didn't have the situational awareness to expect to have to brake early at the start of the race. I'm not proud of the glove throwing - but I do tend to wear my emptions on my sleeve. The corner/safety workers were awesome and understanding as I calmed down. Sylvain Tremblay got there in the golf cart to pick me up just as the car was put on the flatbed and that was the race for the SpeedSource Koni team. While I didn't get to drive one of the GT cars, I still felt directly a part of the win in the 24, as I spent twelve long hours atop the tower through some pretty tough weather helping the guys as spotter. So, even though my race went about as badly as it could have gone, I was able to share in the joy (and champagne) in victory lane.

Anyway, fortunately Mike Liebl who had been taken by ambulance to the infield care center, and then to the hospital with neck pain was not seriously injured and was back at the track in time to watch the end of the race (I know this having stopped by the Fenton garage and spoken with Bill Fenton to find out if Mike was okay). As for me, I have a tender right hand as I didn't quite release the wheel early enough when the left front impacted the ARMCO, but nothing else to show for it - other than a pretty wadded up RX-8 Well, that and bragging rights in that I out qualified Randy

Well, at least there's plenty of time to get the car back together before Lime Rock!

 

^I'm sorry to hear of your incident, Jose. But, as always, you're taking the high road and will, I'm sure, be ready to go for Lime Rock.

 

Thanks for the clarification and sorry I mistook you for David. I saw the back of your head from the where I was and just assumed. I'm sorry

I'm glad you and the Mike are alright. There's always Lime Rock. I guess that's why they call it racing. I've always rooted for you all. I talked to Sylvain about volunteering for the team crew when you all go to Barber, so hopefully that'll work out.

 

Hey, no prob!

It'll be easy to tell us apart the rest of the year though...

Just look at the left wrist... if there's a Rolex Daytona on it, it's David

 

funny as hell.

and thanks for the info on turn one.. so sucks to have your race end so early..

btw, is koni racing in homestead this year???


beers

 

Nope, Homestead was taken off of the Koni schedule, but remains on the Rolex schedule.

I'll be there for the Homestead race for sure.

- Cheers!

 

pm

beers

 

10-4, copy that....

 

Thanks for the write up!

 

The race is actually on right now. I should have known earlier.

 

Upon further review....We (#69 SpeedSource RX-8) were taken out by another RX-8. (#51 Brass Mitchell team - Tony Rivera shown as having been the starting driver)

 

Tony is a pretty experienced driver. He's been running in SCCA Nationals for a while. #51, was that the blue car?

 

No, the white #51. While Rivera was shown as the qualifying and starting driver on the GA grid sheet, the T&S lap chart shows Don Knowles as having been in the car. Whoever it was got into my car pretty hard and started the chain reaction. For the record, while driving a BMW Rivera made heavy contact with David Haskell causing us to lose at least 1 position on the last lap of the Koni race at Miller in '07. While I certainly hope it wasn't intentional, there may have been some "bad blood" involved.

 

Jose,

We actually determined that same thing yesterday since we finally got to look at some of our in-car footage closely. The BMR car got into you - shortly after Sam Stuard in the #62 was pushed off track trying to avoid contact on his first ever start in Grand-Am. However, him going off track is probably what saved him from getting caught up in the whole mess as well. Although later he was hit hard from behind by a white Porsche (we couldn't tell which as there was too much tire smoke from his spin), causing severe toe-in on the right rear. He was then hit AGAIN in the rear by another Porsche later on.

Daytona saw lots of damage to RX-8's, as the #63 had contact with Patrick driving in turn 2, also causing a bent control arm in the left front.

Thus neither of our cars finished as well as we feel they could have. We were saddened when we learned during the race that you were taken out so early.

Hopefully the RX-8's will get a little luck and be able to stay out of trouble for the rest of the season.

-- Adam

 

Adam:

Looking at the condition of the cars after the race, I could tell there was lots of beating & banging going on... the TV broadcast only served to confirm that. Good to see you guys making so much progress & I definitely second your hope that we'll all have a little more luck staying out of trouble going forward!

Cheers,

Jose