Come out to see Todd race his Lotus Super Seven with some of the coolest vintage race cars in the country. This event will showcase over 150 vintage cars being driven competitively on track. Attendees will have full access to all of the paddocks to get up close and personal with the cars. There is a small fee for spectators ($20/day or $30 for both days).
For more information, go to:
http://www.vrgonline.org/events/
I had an excellent time at Hyperfest as usual! this year, they put H2 into Stinger in order to better balance the fields out. made for some interesting race footage! here’s the races from a PTE point of view:
i qualified poorly on Saturday’s race (wrong choice of tires). it was a short race, and i burned the car down trying to get back to the front. i managed to close on the first place PTE’er, but there was no time left, and i had burned the car out. finished 2nd (plus my camera failed!).
Sunday was an entirely different story – (i qualified 2nd, with the #67 white SE-R, Scott, qualifying first):
excellent racing. i wanted to get right up on Scott’s bumper as swiftly as i could (which i did, with the help of a good start!). a bunch of the fast H2′ers (i think there were 10 total in the race!!!!!!) came up behind me, and i didn’t want to lose touch with Scott, so i tried to have them come past in places where it would wouldn’t hurt me too badly…. it was a good race for me, and there was definitely no ‘resting’ time or ‘cruising’ time for the entire race (which was long, as all sunday races with NASA MA now are).
the top three of us PTE’ers ran best laps of within less than a tenth (1:27.7 + or – a titch), and the track was NOT fast (i think it was at least a second slow). T1 was a mess, and the carousel was not good). we were moving.
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hey guys! here is the race report from last weekend’s races at Summit Point — it was mid to high 90s, and sunny, with no clouds; dreadfully hot both days, but Sunday was totally brutal (sat race = 25 mins, sun’s race = 40 mins).
both days were good racing, but sunday’s race was incredible; it is by far the toughest race i have ever been in. it was 40 mins of non-stop, knock down, drag-out action, with three of us in the melee mix. i was PRAYING for the white flag to fly! from the drop of the green, til the checker finally came out, there was not a second of rest or relaxation….
scott’s (2nd place white SE-R in PTE) video footage is impressive to watch! at times we were splitting lapped cars and were running three abreast (me, scott, and darren (blue PTE integra driver)). darren was forced off the track at least once by a miata, and once he went on the grass intentionally on the front straight to pass a log-jammed miata pack (all i could see in the rear view was a monster cloud of dust!). oh, and at the start of the race, i am gridded next to a PTD Miata MX-5 Playboy Cup car (should be much faster than us PTE’ers). i get a good start and take him and lead the whole pack for a lap, and then he misses a shift and grenades his motor (it was his first test day ever in the car!!!!!).
the track was disintegrating really badly, due to the extreme heat and the patches were melting and tearing up; off-line was treacherous, and i almost lost it a couple of times when i misjudged the ‘marbly areas’…. i had to constantly watch my mirrors and protect the inside line, to keep the SE-R from slipping by me and into the lead! even with that terrible track (most classes were turning laps 1.5 to 2 seconds slower than the track record) we got down to within 0.4 secs of the track record (i hold the record at 1:27.110). if it had been a ‘good’ track and cool weather, i’d have been in the high 1:25s, i am confident of that!).
holy cow, that was some racing! when i was packing up, several groups of folks came by to say that it was one of the most exciting races that they had ever seen, and that they were happy that they had stayed to watch, instead of leaving for home!
Sunday’s Race at Summit Point 1 of 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k6ZVTQaX6s