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Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby mschacht on Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:07 pm

We missed Jack Miller, but Robert B. pulled it off big time. How can one guy do the pre-registration, the registration at the track, drive in his run sessions and do the timing, AND get the results up on the SDR web site. Incredible.

Everyone was on their best behavior, very few offs...and the ones we had were minor.

Great fun for me, seeing lots of old friends from San Diego. Great event, so typical of a SDR TT! I'll see you guys in January at Willow Springs. :rockon:
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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby martinreinhardt on Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:15 am

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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby kurquhart on Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:05 am

Wow, Jad - under two minutes - very impressive! Please tell me that this was the shorter turn #2 (off ramp) configuration. :wink:
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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby Gunter on Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:26 am

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Yes it was. Jad's time is amazing when you look at his time from last year. Over two seconds faster!!  :bowdown:
Otto was over 4 seconds faster then last year!! Impressive stuff
Great event, perfect weather and lots of seat time( about 160 miles worth).
Thank you Robert
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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby Otto on Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:05 pm

You were right there with me all along Gunter. We had a blast, didn't we?

It took a herculean effort, everything to go right and, most important, brand-new slicks to get that top BRI spot away from Jad. It gets tougher all the time as he keeps improving his game  :bowdown: To those reading, at the end of the day it is mostly about tires and who has the best tires. Think about it when you are deciding how to use your mod points.

Thank you Robert for single-handedly running a great event. We missed you Jack! See you all at Big Willow.
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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby jrgordonsenior on Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:23 pm

What happened to Saturday's results. They're not blended in with Sunday's...

Congrats Jad on breaking 2:00. Wish I could have been there Sunday...
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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby Robert on Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:45 pm

Saturday was just practice laps, Sunday only was timed runs and the Event Standing report you are looking at John only shows laps times exclusively from timed runs. If you click the link on the TT results page that says Lap Details you can see a driver's lap times from every lap driven on either day.
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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby Robert on Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:55 pm

While I appreciate the sentiment, these events never get pulled off single-handedly. Everyone should also give kudos to those who've made these events possible all year, like the tech guys (Rick, Peter, Steve as tech adviser, etc.), equipment (Glenn), Zone 8 docs (Paul), pics/articles (Greg), Christy who ran times back and forth for our last two events, everyone who has volunteered to supervise a track tour, anyone I forgot to mention, and on and on. These behind the scenes duties are perhaps not as visible but every bit as important as everything else in pulling off a TT. Thanks to everyone who helped once or all year long, and of course to everyone who supported the series by driving. See you in 2010.
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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby jrgordonsenior on Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:55 pm

Robert wrote:Saturday was just practice laps, Sunday only was timed runs and the Event Standing report you are looking at John only shows laps times exclusively from timed runs. If you click the link on the TT results page that says Lap Details you can see a driver's lap times from every lap driven on either day.


Thanks for the explanation Robert. I knew I had TTOD Saturday and wondered where it disappeared to....
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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby martinreinhardt on Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:16 pm

Was this a 997 Cup Car which ran a 1:48.95 on Saturday [#10 X Crescentini, Dino 2007 Other] ?
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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby jrgordonsenior on Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:54 pm

martinreinhardt wrote:Was this a 997 Cup Car which ran a 1:48.95 on Saturday [#10 X Crescentini, Dino 2007 Other] ?


Definitely not a Cup, whatever this is....
http://vanhap.com/imgs/2009/November/11 ... _0840.html
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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby martinreinhardt on Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:28 pm

jrgordonsenior wrote:
martinreinhardt wrote:Was this a 997 Cup Car which ran a 1:48.95 on Saturday [#10 X Crescentini, Dino 2007 Other] ?


Definitely not a Cup, whatever this is....
http://vanhap.com/imgs/2009/November/11 ... _0840.html


Thanks JR,

Ah a sport racer the world is in order again then :-D My first thoughts were it must have been an open-wheel car as they run in these lap-times maybe a bit quicker, but since the PCA rules won't allow Formula cars it couldn't be it. :D
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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby Robert on Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:47 pm

That was some type of Panoz.

Which reminds me, pictures by the official Buttonwillow track photographer are available at:

http://vanhap.com/imgs/2009/November/11-21-BW-PCA%20SD/index.html and
http://vanhap.com/imgs/2009/November/11-22-BW-PCA%20SD/index.html
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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby ttweed on Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:29 am

Robert wrote:That was some type of Panoz.

It looks like an Elan Van Diemen DP02 Sports Racer to me--they run in IMSA Lites 1 and SCCA CSR class. Didn't Jad test drive one at WSIR last year?

Isn't Dino Crescentini the guy who owns Stoptech brakes and runs in the Speed World Challenge GT races on the GMG team in a GT3? He won at Watkins Glen this year: http://sccaforums.com/blogs/site_news/archive/2009/07/05/crescentini-takes-speed-gt-win-at-the-glen.aspx

There's a Carrera GT with the #10 on it in Sean's pics, so he must have been having some kind of fun that weekend!

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Re: Buttonwillow Time Trial

Postby 993Panzer on Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:18 am

ttweed wrote:There's a Carrera GT with the #10 on it in Sean's pics, so he must have been having some kind of fun that weekend!
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I would say yes. He turned a 148.95 on Saturday. WOW!!!!  :bowdown:
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