[merged] OPTIMA Ultimate Streetcar Invitational, Penny Wins, CAR Vette 2nd!

[XcYZ]

Anthony Rose just let me know that Penny won! Congrats to Steve and David and Mary Pozzi!

[Smack_talker]

Great Job...congrats for sure.

[camcojb]

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!! Great car, great owner, and a couple of great drivers in David and Mary Pozzi.


Jody

[68protouring454]

awesome job steve,mary,david, so who drove what part of the challenge or did mary drive them all? was there a score board of times etc someone got a pic of?

[XcYZ]

Anthony said they didn't do the 0-60-0 shootout. So it was the road course, autocross and car show. 11 cars of (27?) competed in all events.

Don't know who finished where in each of those events.

[XcYZ]

I called Jimi and got a few details:

- 24 cars registered

- 11 cars finished EVERY lap

- two track sessions were ran instead one in place of the 0-60-0

- all cars went 100% and some were injured

- there will be a full press release coming soon that will list all lap times of all cars

[68protouring454]

sounds good, figured there would would be some failure as some of the cars don't get to the track, but its to bad some were untested because they will get track time.bet it was a fun time, woul dlike to see the lap times etc

[Steve1968LS2]

Originally Posted by XcYZ

Anthony said they didn't do the 0-60-0 shootout. So it was the road course, autocross and car show. 11 cars of (27?) competed in all events.

Don't know who finished where in each of those events.

It's 1:30am so I will keep it short. lol

Dave drove the road course
Mary drove the autocross
I was to drive the 0-60-0

The 0-60-0 was cancelled since thier people for the equipment didn't show... that sucked. So they added one more track session.

Fast facts..

Penny was faster on the road track than a Porsche 911GT3 on R888s.. by well over a second.

A driving school C6 Z06 with a good driver can do the track in 1:51.xx ... Penny's best lap was 1:52.xx

Mary is a freaking animal on the autocross track. She was VERY consistent. Kyle Tucker of DSE had first place by 2 one-hundreths of a second in the autocross. (29.5 vs 29.52)

Penny still has a LOT in her. We couldn't tune her so the part throttle fuel was all jacked up. The larger swaybar wouldn't fit and I found out the messy way that I need a better breather system.

Drove the car from CA to LV.. then from LV to the event and from the event back to ATS in Vegas... Sorta proud that I was one of the very few without a trailer.

Penny made me proud and I was very lucky to have Mary and Dave on my team.. and that's what this is, a TEAM win.

The last month has been a blur but I'm already planning how we are going to defend out title next year.

Oh, the Vette from CAR did very well on the big track. I think it got second place out there. Times and video will be posted later.

Also, I must of gotten nearly $5,000 in prizes (that I divied up with the Pozzi's) with the various wins (first track time, second place autocross, overall winner)... Didn't expect that.

It's a good day for the pro-touring community.

<--- going to bed

[Steve1968LS2]

I think the look on Tyler's face sums up Dave's driving...

[camcojb]

Originally Posted by 68protouring454

awesome job steve,mary,david, so who drove what part of the challenge or did mary drive them all? was there a score board of times etc someone got a pic of?

should have been Mary doing the autocross and David on the road course, unless things changed.

Jody