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[Jim Drago]

Looks like it was a great weekend at VIR. I really need to get to that track. Congratulations To Steve Bertok on the Win in Sprint race and Team Tiley in ECR win. A special congratulations to Jeff Rothstein who took my 2011 Runoffs car to his best finish of a side by second in the ECR and ran at the front all weekend. Jeff also set a new track record at 218.4. Jeff has been working tirelessly to improve his skills and it all seems to be paying off. Glad my old car is still doing well, I miss it

Jim

[Keith Andrews]

Great Weekend! Sunny with 30 degrees in the morning with low 60's in the afternoon. This was my first weekend on a familiar track with the Hoosier tires. What a difference. Great grip and good conditions for HP. Can't wait to go back.

Jeff was hard charging all weekend. One more lap in the ECR and he would have been by me. I was

Ti-Speed gave me a great ride as usual and Dan drove great all weekend. Congrats to Panic Motorsports, Steve and Dillon for their wins as well as their support in our ECR win.

[Mitch Reading]

Wow, that is wicked fast around VIR... well done.

[Muda]

It was a great event! My first time at VIR and first race in the new car. What a place!
Track conditions were good but learned @T3 in the ECR that frost covered grass doesn't have quite the grip it does in July.

Congrats to Skip Brock for a fantastic drive to P2 on Saturday in his new drive. Put it in front of Tom!

Thanks to OPM for another weekend of gourmet support and cuisine.
And thanks Tom for building a world class car.

[Danny Steyn]

Congrats to Jeff Rothstein for the new track record!

[Dan Tiley]

Wow... what a hoot this weekend. No question the Hoosiers are awesome. No shaving, great grip and a big truck at the track that says "Hoosier" on the side of it. It just makes sense for SM.

BIG thanks to Keith Andrews for letting me ride along in his ECR victory. Keith has picked up some serious skills in a very short time. Thanks for carrying the Ti-Speed torch proudly this weekend! Great run also by Ti-Speed drivers Nash Lawson and Alex Gaines as well, who diced back and forth for the lead with Keith and I until being shown the concrete wall in the straightaway by a lapper running in 39th place. My understanding is that driver was fined and given a 6 month suspension. Video was pretty compelling.

Good times with the Panic Motorsports guys. There aren't too many sports where your competitors actually help you out while the event is in progress! I knocked our toe out during my stint bumping a lapper ITB car at Oak Tree and Panic's Jonathan Black had tools for us ready to go when we pitted for our driver's change. We filled the tank, changed drivers and reset the front toe pretty leisurely with 30 seconds to spare during our pit stop. The Panic guys weren't too shabby on track either, with wins in both the SARRC and TCPS for Steve Bertok and Dillon Machavern! Great runs guys!

As always, great seeing (and racing with) all of the OPM crew as well... a class act from top to bottom. Skip's new ride looks like a piece of candy It's pretty dang fast too!

Looking forward to CMP!!!

--Dan

[Mike Collins]

Don't forget SM5 and STL. SM5 at a 2:14.3 - Greg Obadia, New Track Record and 2:16.1 (I think), David Jacobs for STL.

David Jacobs won both SM5 and STL SARRC Races. He also won STL in the ECR finishing second overall only to the Aston Martin. He beat the Lotus Exige and Audi R8.

Good to see all of my friends down south!

[Race Engineering]

Congrats to all,what a great weekeng. My car broke on test day so i just had to watch the fun. Fast clean racing and great weather. Steve and Dillon had two big wins and a third from dead last, those guys can drive. See everyone at CMP, hopfully my car wont break. Ps.lots of new shiny fast cars were debuted with lots of success.

[zander35]

Does anyone have a video of the incident at the start of the ECR race on 3/11/12 at VIR? Trying to figure out exactly what happened.

Thanks

[Muda]

Yellow & Red, SRF, #47, spins and blocks track 150' past the apex. Grass is frosty. The rest is history.

[Danny Steyn]

Muda - please tell me your nice new car escaped the melé!!!

[Keith Andrews]

FWIW I think there was some sideways activity prior to turn 3 as well.

[Muda]

Muda - please tell me your nice new car escaped the melé!!!

I ran the ECR as a test session...stopped to review data & video after the first 30 min. Didn't push the start and made it through the weekend without a scratch.
Fowler got spun on the outside before the SRF did its thing, two cars off there to the right, some bumping and leaning as well, but the Ford blocking the track was the real problem.

[Alex Bolanos]

Is that a boob on your dash?!

[Muda]

Yes, it is. Fowler's boob, actually. Put there to remind me, on my 4th new track in so many events, that handling a new track is no more difficult than handling a new set of boobs. Unfortunately, wasted on someone who has been married for 25 years. What's a new set of boobs?

[Danny Steyn]

Put there to remind me, on my 4th new track in so many events, that handling a new track is no more difficult than handling a new set of boobs

Classic!

[Muda]

Classic Aaron.

[G.Obadia]

Just a quick correction:

New and first STL track record of 2:13.9 (in a SM5 runnning in STL) by Greg Obadia
New SM5 track record of 2:16.5 by David Jacobs
New SSM track record of 2:20.9 by Greg Obadia

Thanks ElginRacing and Meathead Racing

[Glenn]

Just a quick correction:

New and first STL track record of 2:13.9 (in a SM5 runnning in STL) by Greg Obadia
New SM5 track record of 2:16.5 by David Jacobs
New SSM track record of 2:20.9 by Greg Obadia

Thanks ElginRacing and Meathead Racing

But did you win? LOL!

[Mitch Reading]

Way to wheel Greg, see you at the 12 hr.