posted 12-05-2004 05:38 AM         

I drove the 20 min Feature race and chased Winston the entire race. He ran a best lap time of 1:28:60 and I had a BLT of 1:28:67 (2 seconds better than my time three weeks ago). We were 3 to 4 car lenghts apart, but I could not overtake him... And, we were about three car lenghts apart at the checkered flag. A better driver may have but I couldn't... But, it was a challenging, tiring & fun race... That 20 minutes seemed like forever... It rained during the night and the track was wet in spots. That added a little anxiety... We had two cars spin off and were stuck in the mud until the race was over during our feature race. The Super Production & GTO classes running at the same time had quite a duel among the first two cars in each class.

The other six classes ran in the other 3 race groups and had good races and similiar cars off into the mud... It was good spectator racing...

Our ROUTAL Racing team took 3 1st places & 3 2nd places in the six race series. We took the trophy for 2004 Vintage V8 track champion. I'll post pics when I get back to Mandeville...

Now, we'll get ready for the 2005 season...

posted 12-06-2004 03:45 PM         

Here's a few pics..

Jimmy & Me with our 2004 Vintage V8 Championship trophy...

Here's me (2nd place), Winston (1st place) & Troy (3rd place) for race #6 of our series...

Here's Fritz Mueller our crew chief making some checks after the Qualifying race...