@Teamubr Luca is a good shoe too, not surprised he pulled off a win.
my friend’s kid Morgan Burkhard is trying out some pro racing. He will be driving in number 80 Hyundai in the Michelin Pilot Challenge next weekend.
Luca definitely can drive. Hopefully he continues to progress. He's only 17.
If you have any friends down there, have them swing by the Kohr Motorsports paddock and say hi to Dean (Martin), the team owner. Tell him Jim and Mark from old NASA days say Hi.
I have to brag on Dean a little. Dean Martin (real name) was a pro sportscar driver that was the primary manager/driver in Rehagan Racing. They were a road racing team out of Detroit and also did driver development and sold mostly Mustang race parts. Dean would race with us in the amateurs because he liked racing with drivers that respected their equipment more than some of the pros. He also said many of us were as good or better than the "gentelman" racers (buy their ride) in GrandAM or Trans AM. Maybe he was just boosting our egos, but he didn't win every race with us. When he raced with us, he brought his entire IMSA/TransAM team for trackside support. Dean is now the team owner for Kohr Motorsports that won the IMSA GTX/GT4 races this weeekend with Luca Mars driving.
We had our Nationals at MidOhio. I was in our old Fox body and had been battling bad brake fade all week. I managed respectable finishes in the qualifying races, but the brakes were getting worse and I knew I'd be in big trouble in the finals. We flogged on the brakes until about 9pm the night before the finals race the next day and just gave up. We were getting in the truck to go find some dinner when Dean pulled up with his pro team crew and said I was running too good to not make the finals, so we couldn't leave.
Dean's team and about a dozen fellow racers showed up at our garage and we all were working on the car until after 2am. 3 master cylinders and 4 complete brake setups later, we finally discovered my trusty BrakeMan calipers had fatigued so bad they were flexing under heavy pressure and flaring out, pulling the brake pads off the rotor. The harder you pushed on the brake pedal, the more they flared and had less braking. We had an old set of StopTech brakes in the trailer, but they were for our other, newer Mustang and we didn't have adapters to make them work. Once we figured out the problem. Dean gave me a set of Brembo brakes he had in his trailer and his team had everything setup in about an hour.
I made the finals race. Started 11th and moved up to 8th by the end. Not the top 5 I was hoping for at the beginning of the week, but better than the DNS/DNF I would have had.
Here was my old Fox body. Fun car, but a real handful to drive fast.
Rehagan Racing flogging on the car. This was about 1am. Most of the other racer "help" had transitioned into drinking and observing by now. Dean is on the left, the 3rd from the bottom, supervising with his beer.
And the Rehagan crew. That's me on the right when we discovered the BrakeMan calipers were the problem. We had dial indicators on them and the flare was subtle, but definitely the problem.
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). We seem to manage weekend up north travel just fine. I sometimes think the shorter package would be better for getting into certain places... more site options for smaller campgrounds.
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26.2 miles is a warm up.
