[jbailey930]

Was up there for couple of hours Saturday before the first storm. Saw Tony and Lawson running in the Acura. Must've missed the late night issues:

[Clarke]

We were there with our e30, #25 ITS. We won the class and finished 7th overall. A big thanks to VA Steve, who helped crew. The car was flawless. Steve had a chance to slip away to snap some pictures inbetween pit stops. The rain sucked, We got caught in the pits both times the race was black flagged.

[VaSteve]

Originally Posted by Clarke

Steve had a chance to slip away to snap some pictures inbetween pit stops.

Trying to upload 501 photos to share and the software won't let me do that. Grrrr. I'm working on another site now. Should be up tomorrow.

[HoodPin]

Originally Posted by Clarke

We were there with our e30, #25 ITS. We won the class and finished 7th overall. A big thanks to VA Steve, who helped crew. The car was flawless. Steve had a chance to slip away to snap some pictures inbetween pit stops. The rain sucked, We got caught in the pits both times the race was black flagged.

Congrats on a great performance! Running a long enduro like that has got be a real challenge and a lot of fun at the same time.

[VaSteve]

Here's a link to a bunch of photos. The night photos get better as you go on, I was honing my skills at night photography and didn't have the tripod on Friday. Actually the Friday photos from T10 are an interesting study. You can see the pattern of the flaggers glow sticks through the car photos in some cases.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/BrowsePh...8685664&page=1

Sorry the photos are so small....my smugmug account expired and I wasn't dropping $35 again for it. Let me know if there's something you all wanna see bigger.

[Potomac-Greg]

Originally Posted by VaSteve

Here's a link to a bunch of photos. The night photos get better as you go on, I was honing my skills at night photography and didn't have the tripod on Friday. Actually the Friday photos from T10 are an interesting study. You can see the pattern of the flaggers glow sticks through the car photos in some cases.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/BrowsePh...8685664&page=1

Sorry the photos are so small....my smugmug account expired and I wasn't dropping $35 again for it. Let me know if there's something you all wanna see bigger.

I'm glad to see these guys were there. I've used the RC Imports shop on my Benz and it's kind of cool that someone races an atypical car. They seem to like the enduro format.

[jbailey930]

cool night time photos! You guys have any black flags for the rain?

Forgot to mention funny story -- on way up to Summit, I was driving the Turbo. Going up the ramp around Leesburg, I had a heavy foot. So when I deceled up to the light at Sycolin, a lady (soccer mom) behind in mini-van blinks her lights then runs out of her van. She comes up to my window and says 'sir, you have fire coming out of your tailpipe!'. I probably freaked her out with my lack of concern .....

[Clarke]

Originally Posted by jbailey930

You guys have any black flags for the rain?

They black flagged the race twice because the rain was so heavy. The last few hours were dry which was nice. It allowed us to put some distance on the rest of the class.

[Mackliet]

Originally Posted by Clarke

They black flagged the race twice because the rain was so heavy. The last few hours were dry which was nice. It allowed us to put some distance on the rest of the class.

They black flagged the race twice, but it was because of lightning reported in the area. The idea being to protect the workers. I can tell you that race control opens up a nice dialog with "sound" when things get hairy. I have not heard this dialog before at the Porsche Club Race...it is probably on a different net...but at SCCA events, "sound" is on the same net as F&C. "Sound" is normally engaged in detecting cars that exceed the noise limits, but he also has some extra stuff (hardware and software, I assume) that permits him to report distances to lightning strikes. When the strikes get within a certain distance, the race is black flagged. I'm not sure what the distances are, but I think it is somewhere in the 2 to 3 mile range.

[Clarke]

Originally Posted by Potomac-Greg

I'm glad to see these guys were there. I've used the RC Imports shop on my Benz and it's kind of cool that someone races an atypical car. They seem to like the enduro format.

Chuck is almost always at the enduros. The 50 Plus team took second in ITS, I believe 2 laps down to us. They cut their fuel real close, sputtered crossing the start/ finish line