too tired to put up anymore - great event - Sebring is the Trinity! Aside from sucking a bird into my intercooler....poor bird. Steve Selz did it again - a perfect weekend - more tomorrow - lots more.... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Looks like a great wknd Kevin. Can't wait to see the rest. Side note, I was checking out an F50 registry and counted only 25 giallo F50's produced. Can anyone confirm this? Just curious...
Three generations of Selz! Can't wait for next year. Cheers Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
here are a few more.... shot about 600 pix so if you have a special request post a description of the car or a numberand I will post it for you in the interim - probably wont be able to assemble a Parkplace gallery for a day or so... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Great shots as usual Kevin. You are a trackaholic for sure! Crazy thing about that bird, must have given you a little shock. Good thing it didn't hit the windshield.
thanks Anthony! here are few more pictures... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
as usual great pics. Kevin, nice meeting you and thank you for your help. Fred, good hanging out with you. maybe see you at a chin event. shooting for june sebring. should be ready.
Thanks Steve! sorry about your shunt - have to admire your spirit - June is around the corner. Enjoyed hanging out with you guys! when I get a minute I will send you some track shots of your car - pm your email address.
Absolutely AMAZING!!! Great job to Steve and the rest of the crew who put this together!! This was my first time driving at Sebring.......and all I can say is "WOW"...... Also, to "Kevin the birdman Buckley", those are some great shots!!!!!!
thanks Fred - and again I was blown away by the way you drove.... with street tires, a passenger, all of Fred..., 140hp - you carried speed like a pro - you cant make the car what it isnt put your exit speeds were impressive - Of course I had to hunt you down like the dog you are - but I have Hoosiers, AP brakes w/ Pagid pads, and 150 more ponies.... evenly matched I couldnt tell you I could beat you.... I will bring you a disc on Sat - I have some great pictures of your car!
Our guys had a nice time. weather was great. looking forward to the next event!! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
found the event a tad dangerous. They grouped very very slow cars with very fast cars. At the end they put random, slowly driven street cars, including a pickup truck and a $500 taxi cab with Challenge cars which were doing low 13s and 14s. (the taxi cab ran around all day with $300,000+ Ferraris) Extremely dangerous situation when you group cars doing 20 seconds a lap slower. If there was an accident surely would have created alot of liability for the club and organizers. Thank God there was not but at a minimum it frustrated the fast guys and scared the slow ones.
interesting comment - the mix wasnt perfect for all the reasons you mentioned - and not without incident. The LeMons car (taxi cab) was not an issue for me particularly - but there was a ALMS pro race team on track testing a new driver & running in mixed mark - IN TRAFFIC - no less - I know this first hand as I got clipped in the straightaway before turn 7 - fortunately it was just a light tap on to my left front fender, took out a light, got into my wheel & popped a little hole in the fiberglass fender - at that speed it could have been much a much worse day for me - dont ask me why a responsible team owner would do that - guess renting the track was more expensive, who knows but I dont blame the driver - I am guessing he was just doing what they told him to.
Different run groups solves most of the issues. Overall this was a phenomenal event - The organizers went the distance to provide a safe relaxed event. I can say this from personal experience - the Nov event at PBIR was well run too and having run in PCA & PBOC events at Sebring I think the FCA event was heads and shoulders above the others - and I have seen some real carnage at PCA events. For the record I dont blame the organizers or the other driver for the incident I was involved in - simply put - in my opinion - race testing during a Club event is inappropriate and dangerous.
I was at PBOC in November. There were a lot of accidents, bad ones too. A couple of them right in front of me. A lot more cars in the field, 50+ cars in one run group. PBOC had overall in January 110 cars racing, it was crazy. They put me in R2 run group with the P1 cars!! I think Steve should seperate the cars,but he does a nice event. I am glad you had a good time.
I suspect this may have been a helpful event for Steve to evaluate how to run mixed marque - I can assure you Steve had no idea there was a team testing on track until after my shunt and without getting into the details he handled it appropriately and with great dispatch. will try and build agallery this afternoon - the remaining pictures are stunning.
