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[Bench Racer]

Didn't see anything as it was live, Carbonell won. My people at the track stated Danny Steyn set a track record. 

 

New Track Record (2:15.917) for SM by Danny Steyn.    

 

Congrats to all 

[Mike Collins]

[James York]

I don't know about Drago, but if you look at #7, they actually moved from 1 row in front to ahead of Jim.  It looks like most all were on it, and the car in front of Jim was late.

[Sebastian Landy]

All in all it was a bit of a cluster of a start, but I might just be biased because I got popped before the green and had my diff housing break. Lots of people going early and not seeing the cars in front of them I guess.

[FTodaro]

Move video please,

[Mike Collins]

Move video please,

to where?

[manthony121]

1 #78 Andrew Carbonell Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Miami FL

14 31:56.835 7 02:16.054    

1999 Mazda Miata Midnight Blue

  2 #24 Dillon Machavern Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Charlotte VT

14 31:56.961 5 02:16.044 0.126 0.126

2001 Mazda Miata Black

  3 #69 Yiannis Tsiounis Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

New York NY

14 32:01.387 9 02:15.918 4.552 4.426

1999 Mazda Miata Black

  4 #70 Elivan Goulart Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Shelton CT

14 32:06.979 3 02:16.043 10.144 5.592

1999 Mazda MIATA Yellow

  5 #41 Steven Gorriaran Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Providence RI

14 32:07.308 12 02:16.246 10.473 0.329

2003 Mazda Miata Black

  6 #39 Danny Steyn Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Fort Lauderdale FL

14 32:08.660 3 02:15.917 11.825 1.352

2002 Mazda Miata Blue/Orange/Sil

  7 #44 Tyler Kicera Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Manheim PA

14 32:16.549 6 02:16.197 19.714 7.889

2002 Mazda Miata Red

  8 #87 Selin M. Rollan Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Miami FL

14 32:20.312 4 02:17.072 23.477 3.763

1999 Mazda Miata BIG RED

  9 #23 Cory Collum Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Cape Coral FL

14 32:20.418 8 02:16.459 23.583 0.106

1999 Mazda Miata Blue/Yellow

  10 #60 Tom Fowler Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Cumming GA

14 32:20.745 11 02:16.919 23.910 0.327

2002 Mazda Miata white/blue

  11 #97 Erik Stearns Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Van Buren OH

14 32:20.939 7 02:16.273 24.104 0.194

2000 Mazda Mazda Orange

  12 #90 Nick Leverone Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Bellingham MA

14 32:21.464 5 02:16.866 24.629 0.525

1999 Mazda Miata Blue/Black/Oran

  13 #50 Ralle Rookey Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Suffield CT

14 32:21.604 8 02:16.558 24.769 0.140

1999 Mazda Miata Blue

  14 #6 Blake Clements Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Houston TX

14 32:22.381 3 02:16.761 25.546 0.777

1999 Mazda Miata Dark Blue

  15 #1 Bruce Andersen II Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

La Grange Park IL

14 32:22.897 11 02:16.679 26.062 0.516

2004 Mazda Miata Gray/Blue

  16 #94 Forrest Landy Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Great Falls VA

14 32:23.579 10 02:16.670 26.744 0.682

1999 Mazda Miata blue

  17 #13 Anthony Geraci Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Glen Head NY

14 32:28.334 8 02:17.334 31.499 4.755

1999 Mazda miata grey Black

  18 #77 Dan Tiley Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Mooresville NC

14 32:36.608 6 02:18.022 39.773 8.274

2001 Mazda Miata Black

  19 #2 Jim Drago Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Memphis TN

14 32:38.662 2 02:16.330 41.827 2.054

2003 Mazda Miata White

  20 #75 Michael Collins Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Mount Airy MD

14 32:40.519 2 02:17.626 43.684 1.857

1999 Mazda Miata MEATHEAD Blue

  21 #7 Jeff LaBounty Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Cape Coral FL

14 32:42.789 2 02:16.439 45.954 2.270

1996 Mazda Miata black-white-red

  22 #28 John Wechsler Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Greenwich CT

14 32:42.862 8 02:18.127 46.027 0.073

1999 Mazda Miata Black

  23 #61 Skip Brock Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Birmingham AL

14 32:48.636 4 02:18.697 51.801 5.774

1999 Mazda Miata Yellow/Blue

  24 #98 Andrew von Charbonneau Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Boca Raton FL

14 32:51.930 3 02:16.601 55.095 3.294

1999 Mazda Miata White/Black

  25 #46 Domenico Leuci Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Binghamton NY

14 32:53.788 3 02:19.143 56.953 1.858

1999 Mazda Miata Red/Wht/Yel

  26 #30 Jim Ocuto Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Mohawk NY

14 32:54.422 12 02:18.977 57.587 0.634

1999 Mazda Miata SM white

  27 #73 Daniel Moen Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Ludlow MA

14 32:54.737 8 02:19.140 57.902 0.315

1999 Mazda Miata Black/Green

  28 #27 Michael Lo Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Newton NJ

14 32:55.291 5 02:19.150 58.456 0.554

2000 Mazda Miata Black

  29 #79 Spencer Patterson Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Pittsburgh PA

14 32:55.498 6 02:18.879 58.663 0.207

1999 Mazda Miata Dark Blue

  30 #14 Amy Mills Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

New York NY

14 32:55.857 8 02:19.241 59.022 0.359

1999 Mazda Miata Black/Pink

  31 #4 Thomas Hart Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Summerville SC

14 33:14.694 6 02:19.502 1:17.859 18.837

1999 Mazda Miata Blue/Orange

  32 #05 John Jenkins Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

New York NY

14 33:27.633 6 02:20.804 1:30.798 12.939

2000 Mazda Miata Black

  33 #72 Mustafa Ugurlu Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Litchfield CT

14 33:47.086 5 02:20.986 1:50.251 19.453

1999 Mazda Miata Black

  34 #12 Dan Harding Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Dover OH

14 34:16.200 5 02:25.417 2:19.365 29.114

Mazda Miata Red/Blk/Wht

  35 #29 Scott Lawrence Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Fort

14 34:17.325 4 02:25.304 2:20.490 1.125

1999 Mazda Miata Red/White

  36 #57 Alex Bolanos Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Hialeah FL

13 30:32.170 6 02:16.253    

1999 Mazda Miata Red

  37 #38 James Wells Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Herkimer NY

13 32:31.003 12 02:26.636 34.168 1:58.833

1999 Mazda Miata Black

  38 #95 Adam Miller Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

New York Ny

12 28:02.687 8 02:18.163    

1999 Mazda Miata Red

  39 #43 Peter Arthur John Tonelli Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Westborough MA

10 23:18.308 8 02:17.077    

2001 Mazda Miata Silver

  40 #56 AJ Roderick Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Chardon OH

4 09:29.881 3 02:18.274    

1999 Mazda Miata White/Blue

  41 #17 Whitfield Gregg Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

New York NY

4 09:46.744 3 02:21.515   16.863

1994 Mazda Miata Black

  42 #49 Sebastian Landy Laps Total Time Best Lap Best Time Diff Gap

Great Falls VA

  00:06.915 0 00:00    

1999 Mazda Miata White

 

Results are not official

[Bench Racer]

Announcements:

Car #4, #6, #7 and #87: Fast lap time removed, per Chief Steward for multiple 4 over in turn 1

[Tyler Kicera]

I was inside row 4 and I got nailed from behind before the green.

[FTodaro]

to where?

Sorry mike, typed that on cell phone

 

"More Video Please"

[Bench Racer]

Reading the Sat. Glen highlights, some days are dimonds and some days are stones.

[Marc Cefalo]

Great job Tyler!  What a way to come back from the last lap incident on saturday.  Planet Miata's dyno tuning was a small part of the whole package to get you to the podium today.  Now to pretty up the right side of #44....

[Jim Drago]

What an awesome track in a really beautiful part of the country. We will be back next year for sure!

As far as my weekend went.. The rain on test day slowed the learning curve for me a bit. I don't remember qualifying 18 th or worse since 07 NASA champs I was on the wrong side of that one second split. The car was good, set up was good.. driver was actually preetty close, Just off a little and that is all it takes wehn the top 20 are within a second. 

Race one.. I jumped start and penalty was deserved. They gave me a stop and go penalty. I really don't think I jumped it worse than most everyone else.. But I popped out and it was beyond obvious . I needed track time, so I just pushed as hard as i could after the stop and go.
Btw Tom Fowler kicked my ass I got up to eighth before stop and go.

Today's race.. Very intense at the start and first lap, Steve and Danny rubbing several times on the up hill esses with tire smoke two or three different times. I had all but convinced myself I was writing off the new car as I felt i was certaoinly center punching Danny or Steve after the impending spin that did not come. I pushed Danny clear of Steve, we went through bus stop with steve on my rr, Elivan to his right, no way we were all fitting. Steve turned down on Elivan and both spun off. I slotted in behind Alex who I bumped a few cornewrs later a little late while trying to work together, my fault!
I worked my way slowly to third and felt I had that position in the bank and no chance of catching Andrew and Dillon. However something went on with car, once in fresh clean air, my air fuel went to 9.6-10.2.. Not sure what happened.. But the pack gobbled me up as that is about 5-6 hp best guess.

All in all, the local guys here like nick, elivan, yiannis and others are really fast through many of these corners, laps and track time are huge here! With the speeds here and the lack of run off room, it takes a time to find the limit , If you miss a little here or get a little greedy, you are writing off the car.  I prefer these types of tracks as I think it separates the drivers, unfortunately, this time it separated me in the wrong direction. :0 In short,  you need as many laps as you can get here IMO.

I won both STL races which wrapped up the national points title which was pretty cool!

Great seeing everyone and putting faces with names that I have not met.
Jim

[Todd Lamb]

Had a productive weekend coaching a relative newcomer with Jim Locke. I previously had only been on the track in Rolex GT and Conti, but got the chance to drive it on the test day in SM. Sooo much fun, but like heading up the front straight at Road America, the esses at WGI are enough to decelerate a Miata.

 

It was interesting to see how much difference no wind vs. strong tailwind made in speed heading into the inner loop.

 

I was hoping to see an exciting race, perhaps a 10 car battle up front, but it didn't seem like anyone was able to consistently make the most of the grip besides the two front runners. Would have been fun to be in the mix but it will have to wait until Runoffs.

 

Congrats to Jim for the STL title, and more importantly congrats to the STL group for not having "the big one" for once.

 

Good seeing everyone!

[Mike Collins]

The weekend was great.  Got to see lots of friends from all over the country.  It was very cool to race with some of the fastest guys in the country.  It was to nice to know my car was just as fast as many of their cars...the driver could use some more seat time.  I got a great start on Saturday I went from 21st to as high as 14th.  Thats right about the time we ran out of gas.  I should have drained the tank down but didn't.  I trusted the scales and they were off.  I made it to the end getting passed every lap exiting almost every corner.  Sunday I got an even better start and made it from 24th to 13th and with 3 laps to go it started to get rough.  I pulled off and parked it.  I could not believe the bump and run, dive bomb, chop with contact that people were willing to do for maybe a shot at a top 10....   Otherwise it was great weather and good times!!!!

[Mike Collins]

PS - The highlight of the weekend for me was watching the Sunday T4 (AARP) race.  My Dad qualified in P3 but P4 was very close in the mixed grid.  The same car edged him out the day before by getting him on the restart.  P2 to was a no-show so my Dad was 2nd right out of the gate and gapped P3 and got off to a good start. Once again they had a full course yellow and the third place car caught back up and once again capitalized on the restart and ran my dad down.  With 2 laps to go, P1 broke and all of the sudden my Dad was racing for the win.  He managed to get up to his door by start finish but the Acura just had more HP than my my Dads MX5...  The podium ceremony for them was great.  We watched all the other groups get up there and spray champaign and then the old guys..  P1 - 82 years old, P2 - 64 years old (my dad), P3 - 75 years old....  they got the champaign bottles held them up, shook hands and kept them, told everyone they weren't going to waste it and that they would drink it later

[Bench Racer]

  P1 - 82 years old, P2 - 64 years old (my dad), P3 - 75 years old....  they got the champaign bottles held them up, shook hands and kept them, told everyone they weren't going to waste it and that they would drink it later

At 72, I'd fit that 64 plus age group.     

[davew]

PS - The highlight of the weekend for me was watching the Sunday T4 (AARP) race.  My Dad qualified in P3 but P4 was very close in the mixed grid.  The same car edged him out the day before by getting him on the restart.  P2 to was a no-show so my Dad was 2nd right out of the gate and gapped P3 and got off to a good start. Once again they had a full course yellow and the third place car caught back up and once again capitalized on the restart and ran my dad down.  With 2 laps to go, P1 broke and all of the sudden my Dad was racing for the win.  He managed to get up to his door by start finish but the Acura just had more HP than my my Dads MX5...  The podium ceremony for them was great.  We watched all the other groups get up there and spray champaign and then the old guys..  P1 - 82 years old, P2 - 64 years old (my dad), P3 - 75 years old....  they got the champaign bottles held them up, shook hands and kept them, told everyone they weren't going to waste it and that they would drink it later

 

This is the best story 

[Tom Sager]

PS - The highlight of the weekend for me was watching the Sunday T4 (AARP) race.  My Dad qualified in P3 but P4 was very close in the mixed grid.  The same car edged him out the day before by getting him on the restart.  P2 to was a no-show so my Dad was 2nd right out of the gate and gapped P3 and got off to a good start. Once again they had a full course yellow and the third place car caught back up and once again capitalized on the restart and ran my dad down.  With 2 laps to go, P1 broke and all of the sudden my Dad was racing for the win.  He managed to get up to his door by start finish but the Acura just had more HP than my my Dads MX5...  The podium ceremony for them was great.  We watched all the other groups get up there and spray champaign and then the old guys..  P1 - 82 years old, P2 - 64 years old (my dad), P3 - 75 years old....  they got the champaign bottles held them up, shook hands and kept them, told everyone they weren't going to waste it and that they would drink it later

Didn't know your Dad was a racer, Mike.  Did he bring you into the sport or vice versa?  

[Mike Collins]

I bought him in to the sport.  He had been around it for a long time occasionally crewing for friends in his youth, he's always been a car guy.  I grew up helping him build classic corvettes for show.  When I got into it ( at 35, he was 55) he decided he was going to be my Crew Chief....  He would watch the Miata races and practices and tell me on the radio to "stand on it"..." pull out and pass him"...  At the end of the first year I gave him my race car (i built from an 8.5x11 piece of paper that were the SM rules at the time), I knew I needed a new one...  I Crew Chiefed for him at Drivers school and he quickly learned that a Miata was not a Corvette and that when he was telling me to "stand on it", I had been on the gas already for a very long time and that was all it had...

 

Most people don't know its my dad unless you've been around awhile.  I'm almost a foot taller than him and he has a baby face and no gray hair.  Over the door his name on the car says "Junior"....its not because his dad was a "Sr."...  Its because he tries to pass himself off as my little brother....  He likes to think he's "MEATHEAD Junior"...