SCCA racing at RA with Ferrari participation - June 25-7

I will be driving in the Sprints...but in my Miata! Fall-Line Motorsports preps my car and they also prep an F430 Challenge from a customer. What car will you be in? It would be fun to stop by and say hi. Oh, and yes, RA is one of the BEST tracks in the states.

 

I've worked the June Sprints for the past three years as an SCCA corner worker and trust me - it is some of the best wheel-to-wheel racing you'll see. Guys like RS4Fast are racing Miatas and SRF's in fields of 70-80 cars on track at the same time and the action is intense. As corner workers we have a hard time at the Sprints reporting cars bumping each other and other incidents because it seems like as soon as something happens another incident happens after that.

I also know of one of the Ferrari F430 Challenge cars being campaigned by a Chicagoland businessman and it is a drop-dead gorgeous car (don't tell anyone but I was there just by chance when the truck came by and dropped it off from Maranello) and it will be prepared to race just about as well as a LeMans contender will be. I guarantee that it will be a solid class winning contender, as the driver knows what he's doing and the car will be very well prepared.

If you have an opportunity, go see the SCCA June Sprints. Entrants fight VERY hard to win that race in each class, and you'll see some phenomenal racing.

 

I'm out of the loop Re sprints I would never tow my car that far too lazy probably never be that good either. I'm in T1 in sopac we are all old C5 vettes. I think they are still letting the 430C run in T1. I don't see how it can loose. I do not think the 430C should be in the class. The vettes are so outclassed. scca gives very little modification to the vettes yet the 430C comes factory like a real racecar with aero. Vettes have an advantage of sheer numbers and good drivers but if the one or two 430c's finish and the driver decent they be on the podium. all things being equal a 430c will kill a ls3 C6vette. Geeze the ls3 vettes are just trying to finish the races with homemade drysumps a reason the C5's are still so popular.

 

Is that because of the age thing? That will happen to me in 2014. I'm already dipping my toes in STO see my tape job. I have to make the car a lot faster once I leave T1 or buying a C6 so i can stay in T1 but then I have to build a new car. If someone buys my C5 i'd sell it to stay in T1. My problem is I'm too lazy to make a big push to sell it.
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Thanks...good to know. I always think in the back of my mind I would like to race a ferrari again. If a ferrari fell on my lap (aka really cheap car) I'd be on it in a heartbeat. There is nothing like the magic feel of a ferrari on track.

 

Had a great time at the Sprints. I ran in the STU class on Saturday and there were quite a few F-cars in the gravel traps...

 

What totally surprised me is that T1 was won by an old generation C5 vette due to die because of age in 2014, while a 430C managed only second and should be a totally dominating car.