LRP 7/24-25; Tudor USCC and Continental Series Races

[Rotary-Amuse]

Anyone else going?

I'll be there Friday and Saturday

[962porsche]

we maybe race that event with the two GT3 Porsche's ?

[Rotary-Amuse]

Not sure I understand your question

The Tudor USCC race is made up of Prototype Challenge (All Chevy-powered Oreca FLM09s) and GT Daytona (911 GT Americas, Viper, R8 LMS, 458, Z4, and V12 Vantage) classes

The Continental SCC race is comprised of GS (Z/28Rs, 911s, 370Z, M3, and Mustang 302Rs and GT350R-Cs) and ST (MX-5s, Caymans, 128is, a Mini, Civic Sis, 328is, and S3s)

[962porsche]

they not longer make 911's they stopped many years ago !

[Rotary-Amuse]

No offense, but your statement is inaccurate

More importantly though, are you heading to Lime Rock?

[Mark Swinehart]

Although Porsche internally changes the headings for its models, all 911 models were and are currently sold as a "911".
The headings below use Porsche's internal classifications:
Porsche 911 (1963–1989)
Porsche 930 (1975-1989) a turbo version of the original 911
Porsche 964 (1989–1994)
Porsche 993 (1993–1998)
Porsche 996 (1998–2005) all-new body and water-cooled engines
Porsche 997 (2004–2012)
Porsche 991 (2011–Present)

[Rotary-Amuse]

Thanks for clarification Mark, I see how it can be perceived either way to purists

[Mick]

More importantly though, are you heading to Lime Rock?

Let's hope David's being short because he's scrambling to get two GT3's ready for the event.

[962porsche]

in to spring we put the USCC LRP event on the schedule to do .
our schedule is the full cup series with 4 full endurance events .
I was the 2nd driver of the 2012 GT3 car (we also have a 2009 GT3 ) to do endurance event's .
we have missed the 1st 5 cup event's and have only done testing so far this season . the reason is 1st the last chef engineer is such a dip stick the cars were not making it thru teats with out breaking down .
the problem started last season when the 012 car took a big hit to the right rear and pushed the half shaft into the gear box . the old driver I took over to drive smashed the car 3 times . once they had to replace the nose from the A-pillers forward , 2nd time was the right side nose , 3rd time spin and got T-boned in the right QTR .
the cars owners (two owners of the team) fired the driver . plus he cooked a motor ! total cost to do all the repair damage ? NOT CHEAP!
the 1st race we missed the cars were far from being ready to race . fault of the engineer !
we went to do our 1st test at LRP and the car had bad mid corner over steer . (big bend was total hell) the engineer needed to soften the rear by swapping out to a softer shock and spring setup . in sted of that he was playing with the front bar . I told him what we needed to do he got pissed at me and called me a know it all !
the car owner by the end of the days testing told the kid (engineer) to do what I told him to do . he then really hated me and did swap the springs . times went from 53's down to 52's so the kid hated me even more now .
the car was not shifting properly (from last seasons crash) .
so the owners decided to install a quaife gear box .
they get the new box in the car and we head off to ponoco to test . so we are there testing and you go to shift and nothing happens then we are driving and shifts all by it's self . day one it was raining hard all day and the car had a mind of it's own shifting and not shifting . the engineer kept loading and unloading the program into the shift computer he was on the phone many times with quaife and even had them send a new program .
day 2 sunny the car was not as bad as day ones testing but still had a mind of it's own .
both my co driver and I told the kid we hear a banging we never heard before the kid again was pissed off at me for telling him he needs to see about the banging .
so because we all were hanging around with our thumbs up our butts I slid under the car to see what was banging .
I find the commector for the shift computer is pushed into the center tunnel and the wires are crushed .
as a driver we are not supposed to touch the cars in any way .
so this really pissed off the kid but I found out why the car was not shifting .
in one run session the other drive was in 5th gear and for no reason the car shifted into 3rd and he spon flat spotting all 4 new tires . cost ? allot !
the car owners were pissed by this time because of missing event's cost of testing and just kind of fed up so two days later they fired the kid (engineer) . they asked me if I would take over his job because if the kid could not do it with a lip top he was lost !
this meant me giving up the seat in the car .so 3 weeks ago I took the job fixed the gear box problems got the hole shop organized and we went to Monticello and tested .
testing went with out any trouble we got the new drive comfortable in the car we practiced pit stops anf driver changes .
loading to head out went from 7 hours down to 3 and a half . nothing was forgotten at the shop and the owners saved money by not have to pay every one for needless time to load .
so now the teams expenses are so over run they have cut out all but the last 4 cup events . so we will not be at LRP as we should have been .
our next event is at road America and next season we will be doing the USCC series .
things a Porsche lover doesn't do .
they do not call them porsh they are Porsche's !
they do not call them all 911's they are as the factory calls them . 996 997 991,GT3 RS and so on .
sorry it's such a long winded reply !

[Rotary-Amuse]

Wow! Thank you very much for sharing your story on the season so far - I've recently joined a local endurance race team with pit and prep support, and eat this stuff up!

Sorry to hear about your troubles - I hope you guys are able to turn your season around. What team do you run with?

I rescind my previous statement - you call Porsches whatever you want

[Mark Swinehart]

The Northeast Grand Prix will be aired on FOX Sports 1 on Sunday, July 26, from 5-7:30 p.m. ET. IMSA.com and the IMSA App will stream in-car cameras, live timing and scoring, and IMSA Radio’s play-by-play live on Saturday, July 25 beginning at 3:15 p.m. IMSA.com and the IMSA App will also stream TUDOR Championship qualifying with the Continental Tire Challenge race, in addition to carrying IMSA Radio with live timing and scoring throughout the weekend.