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

[GHOSTDANCER]

Congrats to Penny and Crew

[Tom.A]

Congrats Steve,
Your car just looked awesome. And congrats to Mary and Dave on your wonderful skills. Dave imo your driving looked so much smoother and it was very impressive. I did not get any dang video of that. I think I just was enjoying it too much. Also Mary your driving was just as wonderful. But perhaps the best thing is how humble Dave and Mary are. I would say there was alot of ego out there Today and if anybody deserved it would be you guy's, but what little I spoke you had none. Instead you were just happy to be there. Great People!
Here are a few pictures:

[Tom.A]

[Tom.A]

I have more and will upload later. The video I have is crap but I will try and figure out. I bailed early as it was along drive

A few more details. Pozzi's first lap was 1.53, GT3 was 1.54 and for some reason they stop giving out times? I went over and asked Kyle Tucker what his time was and he said he was told 1.58 (He was on KDW2's not R888's) He was also fun to watch and has great skills. It just looked like the tires were not gripping. I asked the owner of Big Red and he said he ran like a 2.0x something. He said mostly third gear because and the car was just too much power. The Roadster Shop Chevelle guy also said he thought he would be better with a 400 HP motor. He also drove the snot out of that car and it seems there a very little fans for them, maybe it is a click thing but I think they are making their name. It was a cool event and many drove their cars hard. I give them all credit for trying regardless of gremlins or not...oh except I could have done without the Lincoln SUV and the mini cooper.

[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...

[Tiger]

Congrats to all four of you (Penny included) you have all the reasons to be proud.

[69x22]

It's always cool to drive in Kick some a%# then drive out while others are loading theres back on a stretcher.

I love seeing Big Red, the car that basically started it all.

[radrambler]

steve

looks like the hard work and great drivers payed off..
kicking some serious a$$ with the names of vehicles on that list.
doesnt sound like you need to do anything with your suspension setup.
very cool.


radrambler

[srh3trinity]

Congrats on the win Steve, Mary and Dave. I think Penny is a great combination of form and function. It looks great and it performs. What were the dyno numbers on the engine re-do? Were you able to dyno it before you left for SEMA?