SCCA National Championship Runoffs in two weeks

[gira]

Classic Z'ers,

Firstly, congrats to John Thomas for smoking everyone again, and to all the other Z drivers at the solo championships. As usual, I want to invite anyone interested in the best road racing america has to offer, to come visit us and our team at Road America. We will be competing in E production for the national championship against a large field of which there are probably ten different drivers that can win. We will be up there from September 16-25.

If anyone wants to come out, just let me know.

Thanks,

Greg Ira

[Carl Beck]

HI Greg:

I would love to be there - and I'll do my best to make it happen. This is perhaps one of the most enjoyable events of the year..

Carl

[jmark]

Fellow Greg here. Greg is qualified 2nd after the 1st session.

http://www.livetiming.net/SCCA/Runoffs/LiveTiming.asp

http://www.scca.com/events/index.cfm?eid=3128

Edited September 20, 2011 by jmark

[Bruce Palmer]

Are the runoffs being streamed this year?

[jmark]

Yes I think so.

http://www.scca.com/events/news.cfm?eid=3128&cid=46240

Edited September 20, 2011 by jmark

[preith]

Round three of qualifying was completed this morning, Greg will be starting in 2nd. His best time was a about 1.2 seconds off Brakke's best. Unless Brakke offs or breaks, I suspect the results will be much the same as last year unfortunately.

Edited September 21, 2011 by preith

[jmark]

I thought the SCCA would have slowed Brakke up a bit but it doesn't look like it. If it rains all beats are off. I know Greg & Jesse were real quick in the rain a couple of years ago.

[preith]

I browsed over final qualifying times and it looks like Greg just squeaked out 2nd place over an RX3 surprisingly, driven by Aaron Downey. A quick google search yielded a vid he already posted from earlier this week:

http://player.testing2.vimeo.com/29445505

Should be an interesting race.

[jmark]

It looks like rain. If Greg can keep the windshield from fogging up he has a great chance. He set fastest lap in the rain two years ago. You can watch it live on speedcast tv.

http://www.speedcasttv.com/

[coop]

Looks like he finished second in very wet conditions.

[preith]

Yeah I thought Greg had it in the bag in the rain. Brakke dropped off and eventually spun too. The chamois-on-a-stick unfortunately didn't cut it, too bad.

On a side note, I was a bit surprised to see SCCA chose Elkhart for the runoffs as the weather up here is always a coin toss at this time of the year. When sunny it's absolutely beautiful, but... With the numerous races affected by rain the past few years I have to wonder if they'll have a change of heart.

[gira]

Yes, the weather is terrible up there. Of my four visits, I have raced two of them in the rain. Brakke sandbags and as long as he's the head of the comp board and is at his home track, he'll have the advantage. Take him away from his element and he's not that good. In the rain he's terrible, I lapped him. That felt great.

Thanks for keeping up. We'll be faster next year.

Greg Ira