Wow! The man himself. Mick The Brit!

 

Yes it's true, I do actually exist. I'm here to pass on pearls of wisdom. Like: There are two rules for success: 1.) Don't tell all you know.

 

"Steve must have been sniffing the cleaning solution again."

Nah ... just a senior moment!!



[I promise to never accuse Mick of working again! ]

 

Hope to see ya'll there on Saturday!

 

Up at 5 AM tomorrow ...

... and off to the track!

 

Is this a combined race?

 

Run well today, run fast, replace things before the end of their operational lifetime.

 

RSR did very well in practice! I think I saw that one of them finished with the 2nd fastest time, and the others were not far behind.

Didn't RSR lead at this track last year? They were fast last year, and it's looking that way again! Get it done guys...

 

In P1 they were 2nd (197), 4th (196) and 6th (198) quickest! The difference between 2nd and 6th was only 0.28s. Thats great consistency for 3 cars.

P2 is happening now, but it is under caution.

Good luck RSR!

 

From the Lime Rock website:

"In the Grand-Am KONI Sports Car Challenge ST class, in first practice Bob Beede and Matt Plumb were quickest in their Honda Civic Si, turning a :59.595. In the second round of practice, at the top of the board was the Mazda MX-5 Miata of Rhett O’Doski and Andrew Carbonell, who put in a best lap of :59.866 to edge the RSR Motorsports Mini Cooper S of Adam Burrows of Canton, Conn., and Trevor Hopwood (:59.873). Also in this session one of the other RSR Minis (the #196) was put into the fence in the Downhill and will probably not make the start of Saturday’s race."

Can't find any other info. Hope everyone's OK!

Jim

 

Thanks for the info.

Update from Grand-Am KONI website:

No. 196 RSR Mini Withdrawn After Incident (Updated Friday at 3:30 p.m.)

RSR Motorsports is down to two Cruise America Mini Coopers after the No. 196 of Owen Trinkler and Dicky Riegel was badly damaged midway through Friday's second Street Tuner practice session. Riegel was coming down the hill at the apex, when another car checked up to enter the pits.

"Dicky was forced wide, and there was no saving it," Randy Smalley said. "Dicky doesn't have enough Lime Rock experience, and that's a one-line hill. It was the worst place on the track to think about going off with that tire wall.

"The car is toast," Smalley added. "It might miss Watkins Glen. We're going to be burning the midnight oil trying to get it ready."

 

#198 finished 6th on the same lap as the winner (134). They also led 4 laps.

#197 finished 14th, 3 laps down.

Great job RSR!

Sorry to see what happened to 196. How is Dickey?

 

Good job, RSR! Nice run - the cautions were not good for you, but hey - nice one, anyway! Congrats!!!!!!!
Good luck to Tim and crew getting the 196 back in shape for Watkins.

 

#198 6th place with Trevor and Adam.
They drove an amazing race running as high as 1st. All was going well with an 18 second lead when an inopertune caution came out. The pits closed and it reshuffled the leader board. We came back in 5th and eventually were bumped to 6th on a diving pass at turn one. A big shunt on the downhill the next lap caused a full course caution and the race was effectively over.

As they say in racing . . .' it's better to be lucky than smart ' . . . Lady luck was in the room, but she wasn't smiling!!!

The good news is we FIXED the clutch/throw out bearing problem AND the axle failures that plagued us at NJMP.

#197 14th place with Jade and Owen. Jade tangled at the 30 minute markwith a couple of Mazda's and flattened both front tires. He limped to the pits for new tires and ended up 2 laps down. The day was done for the 197

Owen took over at the 1/2 way point and set one of the fastest laps of the day with a 59.3.

#196 was crashed in practice and did not make the race. Dicky Riegel was driving and was not hurt in a specatcular tire wall incident at the downhill. He was forced wide at the downhill apex by a car checking up to enter the pits. The downhill is a one line turn . . . get 'off line' and you are 'off track'.

Next stop is Watkins Glen and we will burn the midnight oil to get the car ready . . . hopefully, there is no terminal damage to the car.

Randy

 

Quite a few photos of the 198 car on the GrandAm website (photogallery) ... plus one of the 197 car with the new "spoiler" ...

... on to The Glen!

 

CORRECT DATES ARE JUNE 4-5

Opening a thread for Watkins Glen:

Confirmed Drivers are:

Adam Burrows and Trevor Hopwood, #198
Randy Smalley and Jade Buford, # 197

The #196 car is currently in the body shop after a big shunt at Lime Rock. It's still up in the air if the car will make the show.

This is the shortest weekend of the year. Arrive Thursday morning, practice that afternoon, qualify and race on Friday.

 

Randy meant to say "qualify and race on Friday afternoon" [pre-race @ 3:30 PM]

The 6-hour (DP) race is on Saturday.

 

Randy,
might want to check your dates...... you might be the only one at the track

 

CORRECT . . . I listed the dates incorrectly . . . sorry. I guess I was thinking of the TV date which is June 14.

Randy

PS: no way to correct the titles

 

 

Does it look like 196 will make the grid at the Glen & does Grand Am allow you to register all your drivers to pilot any of the three cars?

 

No, the 196 will NOT make the Glen . . . not enough time between races. The good news is that it's not as bad as it looks and it WILL beready for Mid Ohio.

Grand Am allows 4 drivers per car maximum, but it's only practical to race with two because of pit stops.

The truck leaves tomorrow for WG.

Randy

 

Good luck and maybe this one will be where you'll finally get your toe in that podium door!!!!

 

Ouch, Solid hit. Shame she won't make WG.

 

RSR runs fastest time ever for a MINI at the Glen.
2:10 in AM practice.

Cool air is a wonderful thing on the hill in the AM.
Keep it up.