Aleru Posted April 22, 2018 Report Share Posted April 22, 2018 Talk about an amazing Race! Fun and hard fought racing all the way to the Checker Flag Congratulations to Team 111 RVAGFX for a well earned victory! And a huge thank you to all the Corner Workers, safety team, and staff at Charlotte Motor Speedway that helped keep our Race safe and fun, and to all the Teams who came out to Charlotte to make this event as much fun as it was. The Race Results are in! They can be found online at: https://speedhive.mylaps.com/Sessions/4807471 And you can download Lap times and Results from Google at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=10CT1IRzLxKcirXN0NOX8EmLlfe7IxH7A See you at the next race. 700+ images uploaded to ChampCar Photo Albums https://champcar.org/mainweb/champcar-official-photo-albums/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Strong Posted April 22, 2018 Report Share Posted April 22, 2018 David Allio mailto:contact@davidallio.com https://www.racingphotoarchives.com more will be posted soon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiberianDVM Posted April 22, 2018 Report Share Posted April 22, 2018 Congrats to the winners and anybody else who made it to the end!! Unfortunately, we wrecked out at lap 169, tried to fix the damage, and finally called it a day at lap 199. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Infiniti Posted April 22, 2018 Report Share Posted April 22, 2018 How were he new brakes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyatt Posted April 22, 2018 Report Share Posted April 22, 2018 (edited) Hey, to anyone missing a helmet. I found a Pyrotech helmet sitting on the pit wall all by itself, approximately between stalls 24/25. It was black with an IMSA radio hook up, and a Necksgen set up by the looks of it. If you're missing it, I turned it into Mike, Andrea, and Phil. Edited April 22, 2018 by Wyatt 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttuttlelandscape Posted April 22, 2018 Report Share Posted April 22, 2018 (edited) RACE SUMMARY: 107 around 40 minutes into the race 107 spun a rod bearing. need to disassemble and see what happened. 108. well we won, after 3 years and countless problems, we finally won!, but it was a fracking disaster, we literally pitted 10 times for every reason know to man. 1)pitted due to a blown tire 2) pitted for fuel 6 times 3) pitted for flat spot tires and tread showing 4)pitted for driver changes 5) pitted for running through cones at shekain 6) pitted for low oil pressure several times this track was the roughest track we have ever raced at, rougher than sebring, yup i said it rougher than sebring. we literally wore out every tire we had. we took tires off the car with the blown engine and wore then out. tires could only last 3 hours, then the edges were gone and unsafe. this track was hard on tires and suspension. at one point according to champ car officials, half the cars were in the garages or pitts. out of 63 cars, there were 31 on track!!! we were saying that if the other car had not blown the motor we wouldn't been able to continue both cars, no tires left. we went through 16 tires. we have a haltech computer that runs engine management. you can program it to go to safe mood when oil pressure gets low. we had a oil leak we didn't have time to fix so every hour to hour to 15 minutes, the motor we reduce rpm, we would come to pitts and add 3 quarts of oil. at our second to last pit stop, we dropped the oil cap into the splitter area, had to run to garage and get one from other car, ugh! due to all the pitting and tires and the gas and the oil we had to pit at 8:41 due to fuel. so we had to re pit by 10:45, ugh!!! so from 9 to 10 we waited and hoped for a yellow, no such luck. so at 10 we pitted for driver change only, notice another bad tire and change it. when we went in the pitts at 10:00 we had a 40 second lead over the rva graphics cars, when we came out we were 40 seconds behind him chris debenke got in the car and did the best driving he has ever done, EVER!!! gaining 4 to 6 seconds a lap, and by the end we had lapped the leader twice. the rvs graphics car was running 3 to 5 slower than normal, i dont know if it was the night, the driver or a decision to take the class winner and not risk it for the overall, i will ask them next time i see them, but either way WE WILL TAKE THE WIN!! interesting fact, Chiseck said that our win was only the 4 or 5th time a ec has won overall! after 100 races, i found that very interesting oh well, our next race will be at Watkins Glenn. both cars will be totally legal for c class, with tech sheets and dyno sheets taped to the windshields, if we are fortunate and lucky enough to go to impound. Edited April 22, 2018 by ttuttlelandscape SPELLING 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvumtnbkr Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 (edited) Good run. Exception class is not legal for overall win. That's what exception means. Rule 2.1.5 and 2.3.1 or something like that. Good run anyway. Bring a legal class c car and do it again . Edited April 23, 2018 by wvumtnbkr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintodave Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 Did anyone else experience excessive wear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OEFVet11 Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 Rolling Roadblock Racing had a great time. Our poor bright green Miata has been through a long rebuild process and we expected issues, but the track shook some very odd things loose to include our TPS sensor screws and random vacuum lines. Had a great time and enjoyed the event very much even our new never raced before driver had a blast. Thanks to the Audi driver for not hitting me when I spun in T11 and couldn't find 1st fast enough to get out of the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Infiniti Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 17 minutes ago, pintodave said: Did anyone else experience excessive wear? From seasons past, no, wonder if it was chicane related, what else has changed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WastedAccounts Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 (edited) 50 minutes ago, pintodave said: Did anyone else experience excessive wear? Yes, we went through a brand new set on our Miata. Otherwise our car ran flawlessly for the full 14 hours. Finished in 16th place. Edited April 23, 2018 by WastedAccounts Added info 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Strong Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 images uploaded https://champcar.org/mainweb/champcar-official-photo-albums/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttuttlelandscape Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 When i grow up i wanna be BILL STRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlorahDorah Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 16 minutes ago, ttuttlelandscape said: When i grow up i wanna be BILL STRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't think we could survive two Bill Strongs.... 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandit Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 2 hours ago, wvumtnbkr said: Exception class is not legal for overall win. Apparently Chisek said different. Maybe not for the trophy, no idea on that, but first across the line I'm guessing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginerd Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 @ttuttlelandscape Never seen that attempt at spelling chicane before 😂 Well done on the EC win and competing the most laps overall. Looking forward to seeing how you do at Watkins Glen! Way to go RVA on another overall win! It was fun to follow on livestream all day. Great coverage @Bill Strong, loved the interview with that Velocity guy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttuttlelandscape Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 LikeShow more reactions · Reply · Message · 2h Doc Waldrop "Interesting fact, Chiseck said that our win was only the 4 or 5th time a ec has won overall! after 100 races," More like over 200 races. It's rarer than you think!!! Manage from our team page, that's so weird, you would think the ec's would be first across the line all the time!, shows you the plain truth, endurance racing is so fracking hard! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron_e Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 No tech/impound drama? Good job everybody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jer Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 3 hours ago, ttuttlelandscape said: this track was the roughest track we have ever raced at, rougher than sebring, yup i said it rougher than sebring. we literally wore out every tire we had. we took tires off the car with the blown engine and wore then out. tires could only last 3 hours, then the edges were gone and unsafe. this track was hard on tires and suspension. at one point according to champ car officials, half the cars were in the garages or pitts. out of 63 cars, there were 31 on track!!! we were saying that if the other car had not blown the motor we wouldn't been able to continue both cars, no tires left. we went through 16 tires. Oddly, we use one set for the whole race and there's still meat left. But your car was working so much better in the infield than our car. See you at WGI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jer Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 (edited) 18 minutes ago, ttuttlelandscape said: LikeShow more reactions · Reply · Message · 2h Doc Waldrop "Interesting fact, Chiseck said that our win was only the 4 or 5th time a ec has won overall! after 100 races," More like over 200 races. It's rarer than you think!!! Manage from our team page, that's so weird, you would think the ec's would be first across the line all the time!, shows you the plain truth, endurance racing is so fracking hard! Because EC cars really aren't part of the race, many (most) of them don't worry about winning, at least from what I've seen. The take long stops, dawdle, any problem takes them off the track, etc. Get those cars legal and do it fairly at WGI. I will say your drivers were well behaved at least when i was out. That was a nice change, tell them thanks. Edited April 23, 2018 by Jer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttuttlelandscape Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 15 minutes ago, Jer said: Oddly, we use one set for the whole race and there's still meat left. But your car was working so much better in the infield than our car. See you at WGI. what tire brand and hardness do you use?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron_e Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 6 minutes ago, ttuttlelandscape said: what tire brand and hardness do you use?? "I think he uses snow tires" say the teams that fear your car once it is down to 500 points. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 This would be a great time to post your team recaps. I use this Forum thread and FaceBook to write the official race recaps stories. I also like to get the recap in by Wednesday at the latest so get busy!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiberianDVM Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 20 hours ago, Team Infiniti said: How were he new brakes? I didn't get to drive at CMS, so I can't give first hand racing experience, but I did drive the car last month at a DE, and I thought they were fine. My first 3 drivers had no problems once they had a few laps in the car (nobody on the team had ever driven at CMS). The 4th driver did fine for 45 minutes, then wrecked into the tire wall at T1. He said the brakes worked but the car did not slow as he expected. This was about 6 hours into the race, and we were in 19th position, running 1:53 to 1:55 laps. We examined the brakes on pit road and everything looked fine so we sent the same driver out, and he wrecked for the second time (with worse body damage) at the same place, and said the same thing about the brakes. My mistake not pulling him out of the car. We took the car to the garage, jacked it up, and spent an hour examining and checking the brakes. Rotors and pads looked perfect front and rear, no leaks, no air but bled anyway. Lots of nose and front fender damage. Talked my other 3 drivers into taking the car out for a few laps so I would know what to work on. All of them said the brakes worked fine, but now the car had a shimmy at speed and did not want to turn in, so we called it a day. My theory: The front brakes take more brake fluid, so the brake pedal is going down a little further and the driver was pushing on the throttle pedal as well as the brake pedal, but I cannot prove this right now. The car will require a lot of body work, so we may be done for the year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Magic Posted April 23, 2018 Report Share Posted April 23, 2018 Thanks to everyone who helped and or tolerated the two mercedes this weekend (big 300e painted like a corona bottle with a lime on the roof, and the red\grey 230 slk). They are a lemons team i helped make the transition over (in exchange for a seat in the slk). Where to start....well they drove the 300e to the track from knoxville and it overheated (warped head) in stop and go traffic. Got in friday at 5, teched the cars and torqued the head down and poured bars leak (with carbon fiber mind you) in it. Heat cycled it as much as we could. That car kept on using water but at a slower and slower rate until about mid day, when it finally sealed up on its own. Now i am a believer in that stuff, at least for a hail mary fix. They ran the rest of the day, with a short break when the hood pins pulled thru the sheetmetal and smashed the hood over the windshield. Didn't phase them, got a pack of kids to stop the hood down while they pulled the glass out and went back to turn laps (minus windshield). The 230 slk ran well, but only when the blower worked. The car oem has a electronically clutched supercharger with electronic bypass\boost valve, throttle by wire, traction\torque management system that cuts power at will....a nightmare. I am going to advise them on how to get around it, but i think non mercedes controller is about the only way. I only drove in the dark when the blower was running, but in my 15 laps i got it down to a 1:46 with the tc off (had to cut a wheel speed sensor), so the car has potential. Car to car contact looked pretty clean. Very happy with that. Car to wall happened to many guys, but that's racing. Next year can we get a bolt down chicane, the cone thing is a mess. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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