Pictures from groups 6 & 8 at the Milwaukee regions 1999 Cat National road race at Road America on 8/1/99
Glen Luening's MGB
Sam Halikus took 2nd in EP in his 76 Triumph TR-6
Dick Luening's 63 MGB took 1st in EP
Mike Alexander's Civic was leading GT5 til debris cut a tire
Todd Wollensen's Austin Mini went on to win
Jim Wessel's Civic took 2nd
Russ Theus in his 93 Toyota Tercel took GT4 and the overall win
Sat. morning practice as Lad Sanda's new ITE Porsche leads Robert Pfeffer's ITE C3 Corvette. In Sundays race Sanda took 2nd while Pfeffer took 1st and the overall Group 8 win.
Rich Walke's 86 Mazda Rx7 would take the ITS win.
Roy Carrera had head gasket problems and didn't make Sundays race.
Jake Krizan's CRX would take 2nd in ITA
Tim Burns would take 4th
Tony Machi won ITA in his new CRX
Jeffrey Joy would take the ITC win in his Datsun 510
Joe Prinz won ITB in his 84 VW Rabbit
Bryan Kinser's Spec Rx7
James Offutt set another new ITA7 lap record at 3:06.926
Jeff Cashmore's Spec Rx7. Notice how nice the LF fender looks here.
But not so nice here. Lost brakes going into T12/Canada Corner, went through the gravel trap and tagged the tire wall. I managed to turn it enough so that I hit on an angle but not so much that the left side would dig in and roll me.
"In todays lesson we learn how to unbolt a fender and pound it out". Notice the gravel from T12 on the ground. It got into everything. The good news is that it's just cosmetic damage.
I didn't get a qualifying time so I start at the end of the field. On the 1st lap I pass Bryan, he passes me and I pass him back for good. As I work my way through traffic I get a scare coming around T5. It would have been easier to go to the right but I'd had enough of gravel traps. I choose to go left and miss him by a good 2 ft. Chris Giesen (Datsun 210 in mirror) hit the brakes and stopped just short of T-Boning the 240Z, who would go off again in T1 later on. Thanks to the corner workers for the quick yellow (caught you out of the corner of my eye off to the right just as I turned in).
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James is the next car ahead of me and I catch him at the Carousel.
I get a good run and pull up next to him entering the kink. Stuck on the outside, he backs out of it. I maintain a 10 car length lead for the rest of the race, do my best to stay out of the faster cars way and it's on to my first victory! Next race, Aug 15th at Blackhawk Farms.
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