Daytona 99 will be hosted here - Live from the racer's group pits!
Day One - Final qualifying and Pit shots
1pm-6pm As of now TRG is in 4th spot in GT3,
6pm-8pm - Racing under the stars!
8pm-11pm...get in the groove
11pm-3am..The Grind
3am-12noon
Trouble
in CV land
Sunday January 31, 12:00 NOON
Standings
GT3 Overall, Car Number, Laps
1) 6th car 23, 610
2) 8th car 02 603
3) 10th car 07 598
4) 12th car 18 594
5) 13th car17 592
6) 15thcar 68 587
The weather is still pretty grim
Kevin readies himself for a last stint
11:50 Pit stop for driver change and gas, no tires,
still running rains.
Outahere!
12:30...Back to 16th s0pot but still sixth in GT3.
Time ticks down....
`12:45 RAIN COMES BAQCK IN EARNEST. Rooster tails
form the Can AM cars, but Kevin's stiull on rain tires and expected to
finish out the session without a stop.
It5 looks like cars are crawling out there since about
half the field got stuck on slicks. They try to stretch it out for
a final 10 minutes...
12:50: IT IS PORING. Noone on pit lane at the
moment as thye try to tip toe throught he final moments.
12:54..six minutres to go and about two laps...Kevin
is able to kleep up the pace oint he rains....
hEADLIGHTS ON, WINDSHEILD WIPERS GOING....
15 FULL COURSE CAUTIOONS...19 MINUTES IN, 54 MINUTES
in, seemed like once an hour for the first six hours, next was at 2:11
(71 minutes in).
The corvettes do their final lap in formation
Here comes the pack of 911s
Taking the checker
Kevin compltes the final lap
Then into the pits for the celebration...Up as high
as 9th overall, 2nd in class, lost position due to four destroyed CV joints...
Sixth in class and Fifteeenth overall, an excellent
placing for perhaps the lowest budget in GT3, in a car based on a 911 SC
with trailing arm suspension!
Nice fender! Everyone is elated that the car with Kevin Buckler, Mike COnte, Nick Holt and Bruno Lambert was able to go the distance and move up 35 positions in 24 hours..
Kevin presents me with a cerimonial beer!
And the last thing to doto wrap the weekend, tape up
my own bumper from the same roll that kept the nose on number 68.
So much for drunks in the hooters parkinglot!