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By John Graber
Published: August 18, 2006
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By John Graber
Published: July 24, 2006
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Autobahn Ccccccccountrryyy Cllluuuuuuuuuubb!
By John Graber
Published: July 10, 2006
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By John Graber
Published: June 12, 2006
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Beaver Run......Tons of Track Time Read More...
By John Graber
Published: May 23, 2006
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Putnam, Putnam, Putnam! The second event for OH/IN and Midwest was terrific! I don’t want to jinx us so I won’t mention again how awesome the w**th*r was. As you all know, we had a large number of cars in the group and solo track time was at a premium. However, there were some great times run in all groups and I think everyone had a nice time. Ed Hessel christened his newly acquired Shannon Sport Racer in TTR and tore up Putnam with a 1:14. Shane Benson once again took the TTUnderdeveloped Aim Tuning, Indy’s premier Spec Miata shop, to the top of the class. I love to hear the HPDE4 guys in their ZO6’s talk about that crazy Miata pulling away from them! Also, for those that didn’t know, Aim Tuning provided the trophies for the SM group this weekend and we thank them for that. A few other notables were Alan Coleman in his 996 Porsche tearing up TTB and John Slinkard tearing up TTC in his S2000. Unfortunately, we lost our only female driver of the weekend late Saturday when Jennifer Schings snapped a control arm on her Cobra and stood in the paddock the rest of the weekend. And let’s not forget Don Michael who successfully took his student for a ride and made him sick. As mentioned, I’m working on a plan to reduce cars in the run group while continuing to grow the TT groups. TTU, TTB, TTC & TTD have consistent numbers, but we need to work on some competition for the other groups. Joe Hayes in his TTG Neon and Gene Hoesman in his TTF Fiero are tired of playing by themselves. Also, Beaver Run has a decent number of registrants at this point and I expect both Mid Ohio events to be packed. If you haven’t yet, I’d suggest you sign-up soon for those events. Spread the word! Nasa is getting bigger and better and we all are an integral part of that. If you have any ideas or comments please don’t hesitate to call or e-mail. Also, don’t forget your TT license or the upcoming National Championships.
By John Graber
Published: April 24, 2006
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April 24, 2006 Mid Ohio was awesome! The weather was pretty close to perfect excluding some late rain Friday, and heavenly considering the white stuff we saw the last two years. The event as a whole went very well and a great round of thanks need to go out to the new Regional Director Dave Royce as well as the National crew including Greg Greenbaum, National TT & PT Director, Ryan Flaherty and John Lindsey who all made the trip in from California. The Time Trial group had the largest participation of any event ever in the Region with 31 different competitors in nine classes. The high participation really makes the event much more enjoyable for all participants and I certainly look forward to continued growth within the group. Throw in some HPDE4 cars and we had a very active group. The track surface was all new and many of the drivers had made their first ever trip to Mid Ohio, so everyone was on a learning curve. I have to say the track was really incredible, excluding those giant curbs. By day two most competitors were dialing in their fastest times and the low for the weekend was put down by Robert Fuller in his red Evo, running a 1:37.532. That is smoking! In one session on Sunday we had three cars below 1:40 which made for a very impressive group. We had some crazy cars laying down some crazy times when you throw Rick Kaplan and his Viper in with Aaron Quine and his newly classed TTU corvette, and then factor Robert Fullers, buschur Racing EVO, Tom Lesperance’s turbo Focus’ and Shane Bensons turbo Miata. What a group. We, mostly me, learned a little bit about gridding the cars and creating some space to lay down those fast times. Hopefully we’ll be able to set-up in the future using the exact times from previous sessions so everyone get s a few fast clean laps. We had no major incidents to speak of, and no damage to any TT cars, and I thank you all for that. I appreciate all your patience and support and hope to see you all at the upcoming events in Putnam May 20-21, Beaver Run June 10-11 and back to Mid Ohio July 7-9. Mark Freemal took a ton of pictures and I should have those as well as the results, and newly established Time Trial Track Records uploaded to the Time Trial site, www.nasa-tt.com very soon. The Oh/In Region has its own section and I expect to have it packed full of information for past and future events. I’m working through a few classification issues, but should have the info up within a few days. Thank you all! John Graber Nasa OH/In Time Trial Director johngraber@yahoo.com
By Greg G.
Published: February 7, 2006
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