As I posted last week, the turnout for the race this weekend was a little bit light, especially for Laguna Seca (many people’s favorite track). The paddock had plenty of space, which certainly isn’t common. I count only 193 starters shown in the results.
For me, well, I was the only car in ITR. How’s that Prelude coming Mike? I also have heard that the club’s new classification of the 5.0L Mustang GTs and the 305ci Camaros & Firebirds into ITR is causing at least one local competitor to do a used car search. So I’m hoping for some more entries soon. Rod even put a GDGR sticker on his Spec Miata and was overheard actively discussing ITR prospects and prices. Here’s hoping.
But, just like in most recent races, Doug Makishima is very fast in his ITS E30 BMW, and even though we’re not in the same class, we’re really evenly matched. We also both seem to turn up the flame just a little bit when we’re near each other on the track. In Saturday’s practice session, our fastest laps were both 2+ seconds off of our normal pace, but only 0.144 seconds apart. The track just seemed slick. Laguna Seca for being finicky about weather, so that was probably part of it. It was fairly chilly (well, chilly for northern California) and windy.
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