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    • June 19, 2017 at 5:05 pm #58529
      tpatton

        Team Tiger heads to the Northeast this weekend June 22 thru Sunday the 25th for the iconic Watkins Glen race track. Testing is Thursday, practice and qualifying 1 is Friday, Saturday is qualifying session 2 and our 1st race that afternoon. Sunday’s race is before lunch. This is the final Hoosier Super Tour event of 2017 and you can follow live Saturday and Sunday on http://www.scca.com. Feel good about weekend as we made some changes since last outing. If you make it out look us up we are in the NASCAR Cup garages for the weekend.

      • June 20, 2017 at 4:30 pm #66865
        Mark and Nancy Petri
        Participant

          Good luck – go get ’em!

        • June 22, 2017 at 4:35 pm #66866
          Randy Zimmermann

            I’ll mention this to my son who lives in Syracuse. I’ve encouraged him a few times to visit Watkins Glen. Any chance Team Tiger will go to Road America? I’ll be attending the vintage International Challenge races July 20.-23.

            Good luck and best wishes for success!

            Randy in River Falls, WI

          • June 28, 2017 at 1:12 pm #66868
            John and Laurie and Laurie Logan
            Participant

              Hi Tom, any chance you could get a panoramic mirror up on the roll bar so we viewers at home could see what’s going on behind you?

              John

            • June 28, 2017 at 6:10 pm #66869
              tpatton

                The weekend started out very poorly with the rear end breaking the pinion gear in the 1st session of the test day. We put the backup unit in and did make the final session and the car was quick, so all the work was worth it. There were some light rain showers Friday so practice and the 1st qualifying were not good for anyone. Saturday’s Q2 was shorter and we ran out of time just as the car was getting at speed and ended up 5th on the grid of 13 GT2 cars and a field of 53 cars total. Saturday’s race was very frustrating! We only had 6 green flag laps due to finishing under the double yellow due to a crash in turn one. Also a slower GT1 car got by and impeded our progress forward and we got a 6th place finish. We worked on the car Saturday afternoon changing gears, new plugs and rejetted carb. We started 7th in GT2 17th overall and had the car dialed in. We got to 3rd before a short full course yellow. Got passed on the restart but eventually cleared lapped traffic and regained 3rd and setting fast lap of race chasing down the leaders. With 3 to go I had closed on the leaders but was held up on entry to bus stop by a lapped car allowing the leaders to get a big lead. As I entered the boot I saw smoke and there was the lead Mustang sideways coming to a stop and the new leader the black Corvette just ahead. The Vette held the lead for the lap but over drove the bus stop allowing us to get the pass for the lead and the win! 1st in GT2 and 7th overrall, a big turn around from Saturday.

                The Sunday race had the top 7 GT2 cars running together most of the race, except for lapped traffic all the passes were for class position. I think you will enjoy this video. By the way John no video to the rear but watch the mirrors especially when we have contact with the Mustang.

                https://www.youtube.com/attribution_lin … load_owner

              • June 29, 2017 at 4:58 pm #66870
                Mark and Nancy Petri
                Participant

                  Super/smooth driving – big CONGRATS! 😀

                  … oh, yeah – and nerves of steel as well 8)

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