I raced against the "in team" corvette when Jack Gersh owned it, at WSIR in a Vara race.
We had run Jeff Sadinsky's silver 911 2.7 in the previous night's 4th of July enduro where Jack and Marconi were sharing the other red vette. We had actually won the enduro, without the knowledge till Sunday morning.
Seems the the duo in the red vette had some er.... irregularities in their pit procedure and were disqualified after officials found out.
We had a really fun race with them and for the last half hour I was running with the front sway bar drop link sometimes making connection to the lower control arm, but mostly not doing anything at all. That made for some fun unpredictable handling.
The next morning when we were told of winning the enduro, I was really ticked off since the vette guys had garnered all the attention from the spectators and other entrants.
With both sway bar U tabs welded back in place, Jeff flipped me the keys and told me to " go get im" in the sprint race on Sunday. Jack was not a proficient driver compared to his team mate, and it turned into a 30 minute see saw battle where I would be under his tail through all the corners, but he would blast away on the straights. I figured out that his exit speed from 9 was terrible so evolved my strategy to try the pass on the last lap exiting that turn.
I gave him some decent space between 8 and 9 and wound the 911's speed up to drift out of 9 carrying as much speed as possible. Using the track exit pocket for a little extra drift room, i rocketed up alongside the "in team's" right rear quarter panel. I had to choke up a little as he faded right and lost my momentum as the vette's big block torqued away from me while we crossed the finish line.
Da** that was a good fun race. All the cornerworkers were giving us a round of applause as we did our cool down lap. Vindication enough for me from the night before
