25 Hours of Thunderhill

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25 Hours of Thunderhill

Post by boltonite » Sun Dec 06, 2009 11:55 am

Spec Miata driver & national champ Steve Gorriaran (aka Gorilla) is doing the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, driving solo.

He's gone 20+ hours so far, stopping only for fuel, a brake job (cost him the E2 lead), breakfast, and the toilet.

If you're bored you can follow the live T&S feed on the NASA site (http://www.drivenasa.com:8080/liveresults/25hour/), Shawn Dewey (crewing for Steve) is also posting updates on the Spec Miata forum.

Go Steve!

22.5 hours later, Gorilla leads E2 again and sets a personal best time 20+ hours into his stint, zoom zoom!

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25 Hours of Thunderhill update

Post by boltonite » Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:50 am

If you haven't heard, Steve Gorriaran won the E2 class at the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, setting the fast lap in class after 20+ hours behind the wheel.

Several COM veterans were on Steve's crew: Dan Malik (data guru and crew chief for the CRS COM racing team), Leos Kubec, and Dave Woodle. Kudos to Steve and the team! It was a record setting performance, almost as good as Luigi Chinetti's win at the 24 Hours of LeMans. :wink:

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Re: 25 Hours of Thunderhill - Speed TV blurb

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Re: 25 Hours of Thunderhill

Post by Mick » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:51 am

So he stopped getting out of the car after 12 hours, then they go on to say "Utilizing a special funnel that drastically reduced refueling times..." Nice.

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Re: 25 Hours of Thunderhill

Post by CP » Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:22 pm

Time for this guy to go Pro. I've heard rumors that he'll be moving up to World Challenge shortly.
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Re: 25 Hours of Thunderhill

Post by breakaway500 » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:21 pm

I can't imagine a 13hr. track session... :shock: That is stamina.
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