Mid Ohio Double National June 1-3

If someone is taking pictures at Mid-O can you get a couple of the Datsun 1200 (foster car) driven by Don Kadunc? I'd be happy to reimburse or trade you a favor. I'm trying to place the foster car in a permanent home and need some picture of the little guy (er, little car).

If there's a pro shooting, let me know.
Thanks, Peter

PeterZekert (at) Juno (dot) com
 
A quick update on things......

Yes, there will be live T&S.

We had three sessions yesterday. The first was WET. It was sprinkling lightly until the three minute mark on the grid and then it opened up. It was coming down so hard that I did an out lap and then came in. Just awful. The second session was dry for the first few minutes and the track was drying but then it started raining again. Add in that and FV had oiled up a few hundred yards of T8-T10 and it was very sloppy. These were the two sessions for Race One so the grid is all sorts of jumbled. It should make for an interesting first few corners. Sorry but I don't have a grid sheet.

The third session was for Race Two and was dry. The track was still damp in places and T9 and 10 were still a bit slippery. I got down to a 1:53 but had a serious steering issue so there's time left out there for me.

Race One is this morning at 11:20. It appears that it'll be dry. But I'll believe it when I see it. That's the only time we're on track today. I'll try and update things after the race.

We have another qual session tomorrow at 0800 and then Race Two is tomorrow afternoon (1345?).

Dayle
 
Here is the final grid for the race today.
As Dayle described above, both sessions were a mess.
Monsoon in Q1 and oil/gear lube on a damp surface in Madness for Q2 jumbled the grid overall:
1 - Halkias EP
2 - Ruck FP
3 - Helm EP
4 - Gauper HP
5 - Brannon HP
6 - Waker FP
7 - Martz EP
8 - Futcher FP
9 - Camilleri HP
10 - Jaeger FP
11 - Bartell HP
12 - Moore EP
13 - Workman FP
14 - Schmitt EP
15 - Funk FP
16 - Wright HP
17 - Pintaric GTL
18 - Feller HP
19 - Strittmatter FP
20 - Feineigle - FP
21 - Frame - HP
22 - Hipp GTL
23 - Floyd GTL
24 - Lunder FP
25 - Stein HP
26 - Alderson FP

Q1 session for Sunday was dry but green. Going from memory top cars in Prod were Halkias, Ruck, and Feller. Top three FP cars (Ruck, Workman, Futcher) were only a few hundreths of a second apart!
 
Live audio now as well at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/scca-super-tour

Today's race from Turn 7:

Grid kind of jumbled because of the rain.

Halkias took the lead from the pole and Helm in the MR2 was strong in the opening lap or two, battling with Ruck for P2 OA. He and Martz finally got around as Schmitt was catching them all from behind.

Schmitt ended up getting through all the cars and taking the lead, cruising to the win. Behind him, Halkias and Martz ran nose-to-tail for the final 10 laps, finishing in that order. Helm's strong run ended in the Turn 7 Gravel. They dragged him out but he finished a few laps behind.

Ruck had the pair of Lotuses on him for a brief time, but then they fell behind the other EP cars and eventually dropped out. First, Walker and Moore (EP BMW) had side-to-side contact going into the brake zone at 7. Walker got a flat and bent an upright and skidded to a stop at 7 on lap 4. Moore's door was flopping and I believe he must have pitted to remove it. Futcher was running in second then, but fell out on lap 8 with a mechanical. That promoted Sterling to P2 and Mason to P3 but Kevin won by 30 seconds.

HP was the race of the day, as was predicted. Gauper, Brannon, Bartell and Feller all led and had a great battle going. There was almost a huge crash as the group (along with Scott Lunder's FP Civic) caught a slow moving GTL car in 7 while Helm was in the gravel. Lunder stayed behind the Datsun and the H guys did everything they could to not crash and slid on through. Not sure if there will be any action there or not. Looked pretty unavoidable.

Anyway, the group got split and Feller was on Bartell, eventually getting by. Once in the lead, Feller drove away. Man can he carry speed through the apex. Everybody better watch out. Old four-time is back and he damn near was down to the track record once he got into the lead.

Pintaric won GTL over Floyd. Not sure what happened in that one.

Will get results posted as soon as I get back over to the timing area to collect the files.
 
That was a fun race.
The slow backmarker during the yellow on the back straight certainly screwed things up but I don't know if the final results would have changed.
I parked it to keep from passing under the yellow and got swarmed by everybody else.
No action taken, would have been a tough call.

Oh well...we get to try again tomorrow!
Video is up on Youtube.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIp3jt1Vdmk

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czg1_QW2al0
 
peterzekert":29dw0yeu said:
If someone is taking pictures at Mid-O can you get a couple of the Datsun 1200 (foster car) driven by Don Kadunc? I'd be happy to reimburse or trade you a favor. I'm trying to place the foster car in a permanent home and need some picture of the little guy (er, little car).

If there's a pro shooting, let me know.
Thanks, Peter

PeterZekert (at) Juno (dot) com
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I saw Roz here Peter. Contact him for pix.

Dayle
 
Yesterdays race was....a memorable one. Congrats to Dave on his win, seriously. We had one hell of a race for probably eight laps or so, nose to tail, super tight and clean racing. He made absolutely zero mistakes and gave me zero opportunity to make a pass. I did finally make it by on the second to last lap, after we went side by side through three straight corners. Unfortunately all that off line driving put a bunch of crap on my rear tires, so the next hard corner we hit, the car snapped on me. Car didn't get hurt, just my pride. :lol: But seriously, congrats to him - he earned that one!

What I'm mostly upset about was the contact that resulted in me being behind Dave in the first place, and then the protest that was levied against me afterwards. No attempt to talk to me, just a straight protest. First one of those I've had in 13 years of Club Racing. The SOM's took one look at my in car video, and it was resolved. Their exact quote was "That was a move I would've gone for every time." In retrospect, I was the one who should've been doing the protesting, but that's not me. Still disappointing, none the less. Luckily for me, my car sustained very little damage. Onward to the next race! :mrgreen:
 
Stiner0931":3tox53zy said:
Thank you to everyone for making my first national a great experience!
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Welcome to the jungle. Joe, Andrew, you and I got to play in the second eschelon. Despite the rain on Friday, it was a fun weekend. OVR and Cincy put on a pretty good event.

On a side note, did anyone hear what the hell was going on with wings and things? Being in the group just before them, we didn't get to see any of their sessions. They managed to screw up almost every one of them. Was it just too many cars on course at once or what?

Dayle
 
Great weekend! I really enjoy racing Mid Ohio and the strong competition in HP made it that much more fun. Both days the top four H cars were swapping positions and doing a lot of dicing...it felt a lot like the Runoffs of old...very clean racing. :applause:
 
Not a heck of a lot they could have done to clean up the mess while the track was still wet.
It looked like they tried to put oil-dry down, but that was pretty useless when track was wet.
It would have been nice to have gotten a heads-up on the false grid to let us know exactly where the oil was.
They did show surface flags in a few corners but we had no way to know if it was for the track being damp or oil...
 
Did you guys notice how few corner workers there were? Only two at most stations. And a bunch of stations were unmanned altogether. And this is MidOhio......its ALWAYS well staffed. Very concerning. :(

So lets try and do our part. Contribute to the Worker Tow Fund at an event you attend (that cash is typically given away as door prizes, raffles, etc.). Or, better yet, get some white pants and volunteer for a weekend. Whether its on a corner or someplace else, you'll get a lot of handshakes and smiles.

Dayle
 
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