Post-TGPR Spring 2013

[e30Racer]

First of all let me say THANK YOU to the workers who came out and made this event run! Without your time and dedication, this event can not be put on and I want to thank you! I want to thank Chuck Schultz for being the worker chief and doing a great job the entire weekend! I think the drivers gave Chuck more headaches than the workers did, so great job to all of the workers!

Saturday couldn't have been nicer! Sunday could have been better, but everyone did at least get one dry session in the morning and the track was faster than it had been on Saturday. We had over 50 TT drivers for the weekend, and a full 10 PDX drivers Saturday and Sunday.

A big thanks goes out to TVR and Craig Farr and George Bugg for setting up the event and doing much of the grunt work behind the scenes. Thank you to Andy Tow for being a Safety Steward!

I will post results as soon as I get them!

[farrout]

7 new track records were set. There were many more battles and personal bests set.

BSP (Rod Hardiman) and HP (Dave Stephens) won in the first time these classes were run

ESP - Robert McManus lowered his own record by 3 sec

ITB - Ryan Sharp lowered the record by 3.5 Sec

ITS - Thomas Logan lowered the record by 2 Sec

SSP - Michael Garoust lowered his own record by 4 Sec

SU - Scott Budisalich lowered the record by 4.5 Sec. Ricky Ragan and Leon Drake were also under the old record

FV is a real story. For the last 9 events at TGPR Michael Chandler and Mark Rothermel have gone toe to toe, no quarter asked nor given. ALthough Mike owns the track record, Mark leads the series 5-4. This year Mark set a personal best and beat Mike.

In SPU Ron Richey set a personal best by almost 8 seconds.

In GT1, Bill F Coffey set a personal best by 0.9 Seconds

In FS Jason Hawkins set a personal best by 1.1 seconds

In DSP Dustin Webb set a personal best by 4 seconds

In CSP Byron Evans set a personal best by 1.3 seconds. Michael Tablas lowered his best time by 1.7 seconds. Shelton Wright codrove with his Dad Charles and youth won out over old age and treachery

[nicktcr]

What did they do to the track to make it so much faster? That's awesome that so many records were broken!

[MWenning]

Darn...I was rooting for old age and treachery.

[slowautoxr]

Ditto Mike.

[bimmertech]

What did they do to the track to make it so much faster? That's awesome that so many records were broken!

The track seemed slower. People brought newer and better equipment and more talent.

[e30Racer]

Results.....

[bimmertech]

Looks like I got an involuntary bump to SU.

[farrout]

What did you want to be? DSP? I can change the TT Points (which I have not done yet)

[bimmertech]

What did you want to be? DSP? I can change the TT Points (which I have not done yet)

Yeah, but I had agreed to give D.Webb 1st place points and I'll take second. Thanks.