OTC updates

[Andrie Hartanto]

Just got back from Buttonwillow (day 4) and Thunderhill (day 5) helping friends (fellow NSX-ers) and watching the competition up close.

As you all know, we have 2 NSX and a few NSX owners that decide to compete using other cars.

Doug with team modified currently tied in 2nd overall, but they had car problem on second half of Buttonwillow day which continue to Thunderhill.

Greg Hardee/Mark Allan, was down in overall ranking, but they try to make up ground by posting a great lap time in Thunderhill.

The most exciting competitions are in touring 4. This class are very closely matched (time wise). A few NSX owners who compete in T4:

Nitzan Wilnai and Matt Haas is currently tie with a mini cooper S driven by an excellent driver for the first place, running a 2nd generation RX7. I'm amazed that the car still runs

Eddie Lee and Telly Chang who campaigned a pretty much stock 94 Mazda miata R are posting a very impressive times and constantly improving through the 2nd half of the competition, snatching the top honor in Thunderhill!

Eddie Nakato (Edo on this board), and Mike Wann with the Turbo flying miata are trying hard to keep up. I guess the turbo is not enough to make up for the lack of talent

I am thoroughly dissapointed didn't get to compete in the competition this year. I'm setting my calendar and my schedule around to make sure I will compete next year!! Definitely a fun event!

[This message has been edited by Andrie Hartanto (edited 20 May 2002).]

 

[Andrie Hartanto]

Just got a report that looks like Doug blew his motor today

He spews oil all over the track. Bummer. We thought he solved the car problem , since he sent Larry home to get some parts yesterday.

Hope he still have some spare engine, or he can fix whatever the problem is.

 

[Telly Chang]

What a week! If anyone is considering doing OTC, I highly recommend it.

We started slow but finished strong. On day 3, we flat spotted a tire and corded another one. We then got a lot of help from the NSX community - first Jim Shen offered to lend us his A032R tires from his race car. Then Andrie offered to driving 250 miles to deliver these tires to us at Buttonwillow. Chris Willson also helped with OTC route/transit logistics.

After we got the new tires and sorted out our car, we placed either 1st or 2nd (in our T4 division) at all the remaining tracks. Overall, we finished 3rd behind a RX7 (Nitzan's team) and a Mini Cooper S (Yes, a team picked up a brand new Mini off the showroom floor and ran it in the OTC).

Had we gotten our act together earlier in the week, we could have done better than 3rd...uh, I know, bench racing yields very different results than the real stuff


[This message has been edited by Telly Chang (edited 20 May 2002).]