Archive for December, 2006

5:39… and things are WAY different

Well, I (Johnny) just got off my double stint from hell. Within the first 40 minutes of my stint, I radioed in to report a vibration from the right rear in left hand corners. About 3 laps later, the exact same thing that heppened to Matt on the left side of [...]

Hey Nightowls.. 1:30am

We made a few changes to the driver line up - Sammy and I (Mark) did single stints, Johnny is in the car now for a double.We moved up nicely. I was in the car and we were on the same lap as the second place E2 car and gaining about 7 seconds a lap. [...]

13 hours in…

Alright. So, Andrew is now out after a double and sammy is now in. We just did a right side tire rotation before sending Valafar out. Brakes and tire change is coming up soon. stay tuned.
We are about 9 laps down, but are making up good time.
- johnny [...]

8 hours

Well, I (Johnny) just got out of the car about 45 mins ago. Brought the car in with a 5 lap lead on 2nd place. We had one full course yellow for some cars that were off. Our tires were toast and the car was all over the place. We still were able to run [...]

Dick Barbour Automotion Roadster #4

Under Don Trueblood’s ownership the Roadster was repainted to metallic blue and the number was changed to 88. Don raced the car in Southern California SCCA club races and is listed as participant with Porsche #88 in a September 1969 Orange County International Raceway program.

Don was successfully importing and selling Porsches when he and his [...]

Ouch!

Six laps into Matt’s first stint the left rear wheel hub broke, shattered the rotor and the wheel fell off. We were 5 laps up at the time. With the tow in and repairs we lost 51 minutes of track time - Jason Hoover and his crew guys are amazing!!

Matt went back out 16 laps [...]