the finish….

Ok, back home and running on about 40 hour of no sleep.

After we fixed the car and sent Matt out, he reported that the car was the best it has been and it showed in his lap times. Andrew took over after Matt and ran a great stint having some fun playing/racing with Charles Espenlaub in the #91 MX-5. Andrew caught Charles after chasing him for a bit and eventually passed him. I was on the radio with Andrew and at one point he comes on to say “He bumped me!”, with a laugh… it was fun to watch.

Sammy and Mark follwed Andrew with a couple really nice stints with Mark bringing the thing home in 6th place. Considering all that happened over the 25 hours, we were very proud to have finished. We were about 9 laps down at the end.

I just want to thank Jason Hoover, Tony Silva, Brian Mezger, and the entire crew for working their butts off in the pits. The team was truly a machine out there.
To my co-drivers: It was a pleasure to drive with all of you and I thought the chemistry was great between us. This was a GREAT team for sure! Personal thanks to Marshall Pruett for everything and BIG thanks to team MER/Mazdaspeed for sharing parts, LOTS of them.

Ok, so tired now I can barely type. I’ll post some pics tomorrow after I recoop.

- johnny k