Mustang Watkins Glen Race Data

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Two Man Championship II points website

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Seniors F2/Mustang points website

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DETAILED RACE DATA:

PODIUM: Joao Petry, Maciej Bekas, Barry Hedrick
Senior Podium: Rich Dozier, Bill Kaiser, Dave Bradley

Steward's call to the Grid: 45 Saleen Mustangs

Fastest lap: Joao Petry, 1:08.012

Hard Chargers:
Bill Kaiser, gained 15 (42nd to 27th)
Brad Wrenn, gained 14 (32nd to 18th)

On lead lap at finish, 17 cars. One lap down, 10 cars.

Ten Seniors competed, top Senior finished in 17th place.

Top ten drivers represented 6 different countries and 7 different Teams.

DNFs: 8 DNFs (including 1 disconnect )

First four races, four different winners!

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POINTS:

OVERALL: Once again a shuffling of the top five in points!
Sergio Casanovas (Spain), is on top with brother Jose Casanovas (Spain) in second place. Rob Thaeler (USA) is in third with Paul Nadeau (USA) dropping to fourth . Garret Diduck climbs up into fifth in points.

A total of 57 drivers have participated with 40 scoring points.

TWO MAN TEAM:
A MAJOR shifting of teams places! Team CAR (Garret D. and Barry H.) have come up from third to FIRST in points. M & M Racing ( Malik L. & Mark U.) remain in second while former first place team RAMONES (Louie B & Sergio C.) have slipped to third. Over the Limit ( Mark C. & Jan S.) goes to fourth, changing places with PT Racing (Aaron P. & Rob T.) who are now fifth.

SENIORS: Rich Dozier remains in the lead, with Van Bonham
still in second. Ralph Kemmerer holds third by a whisker over Earl Setser in fourth; Dave Bradley is now fifth in points.

TEAM: CanAm Racing is back on top again with iPro Race Autosports moving up to second, relegating MNRL Motorsports to third and Bad Voices Racing in fourth. Team WFO holds fifth in points.

Really sorry if I took anybody out before I left, screen froze. Could still control the car as had sounds but no visuals unfortunately.

In my 3+ years of racing at R2P I have never been so disappointed in the lack of respect and courtesy from some drivers as I was after this race.

As far as I know, the use of flashing headlights is harassement and a violation of an R2P rule.

What an epic race!

Quallied ok, close to Van, my Sr. Pts challenger. Was amazed at how tight this field was.
Close racing for the whole race! Towards the end had Brad pasted to my mirror along with Rob. Great racing, close and clean, thanx guys!

Early into the race Van got caught out by a spinner in the chaos that seemed to live into the last turn. Bogus...

Looks like the Norminator is running up there with those Sunday Endurance guys in attendance.

Thanks Norm!

What can I say but WOW, another great race! I started 32 (really need to figure out qualifing at some point), and raced my way to an 18th place finish. I know that many would not be happy with that finish but with competition in this series it is hard to make up many spots.

Rich, Rob and I had a great time swapping spots late in the going. I thought I was going to be able to catch Rich again but pushed too hard and over drove a few corners. With 45 drivers starting I was shocked that there was not a huge wreck going into T1 or the bus stop on lap one. Great job to everyone tonight. Congrats to the top three on a great run!

Usually my brain farts spoil a good outing, but it didn't hurt me today because I was lacking speed to contend anyway. Funny moment near the end: I was really getting into it and physically leaning into the turns, and with so many rights, I pulled the left side of my G25 off my desk which left me weaving for a moment. Gotta tighten that thing now. Especially with a mainly righty Silverstone on the horizon.

PS. Why not the full course?

Congrats to the top 10. Great competition!

This Forum is for driver comments about the race. Negative
comments are allowed as long as they are not directed towards
one person in particular is not allowed.
If anyone has a gripe against another driver, there is a Protest
mechanism for settling disputes.

Ryan and all,

We did not run the full course because everyone uses it all the time, it seems .I thought it would be fun to use the NASCAR course especially since the major series like Rolex use the 'short" course yearly.

While the racing overall was excellent, there were incidents which did not have to happen, mostly lapping cars overtaking lapped cars.

I consider this my fault because I chose the course which I knew
would have a lot of lapping but I never foresaw 45 cars starting!

Most courses are longer than this one was, obviously, which means it takes a lot longer for the lapping cars to catch the slower guys.
Plus they get more spread out. Last night there was A LOT of lapping going on. This is one of the most difficult situations in our racing, how to get lapping cars by lapped cars.
It is a two sided coin. The lapped cars in an informal and off the books fashion, can help getting the fast guys by them by
slowing on straights a little bit, or taking an off line out of a corner.
BUT this is counter manded by the general rule that lapped cars
should take their normal line, it is up to the lapping cars to overtake, and overtake SAFELY. This all gets really complicated
when lapped cars are racing for position and a group of lapping cars comes upon them. the lapped cars have every right to
their position on the course and their races are no less important than are the lapping cars races.
In the worst case scenario, and this happened last night,
the lapped car gets pushed out of the way by the lapper.
This situation is NOT tolerated and when found is dealt with.

I guess in the final analysis it is all common sense. Lapped cars
need to be aware that they are being overtaken and, where possible, help the lapping cars. AND lapping cars need to have
PATIENCE and realize that they are overtaking guys who may
be having a race of their own.

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What I'm disappointed is by the lack of respect of SOME faster drivers who incessantly flash their headlights as if I'm supposed to roll over and play dead so that they can go through. The bumping and nugging to get me off the line isn't very sportsmanlike either. As Norm said, some of us are in a race of our own and we are entitled to the same race line as the fast guys. The etiquette is for the faster driver to make the pass safely, not under braking in T1!!!

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