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Great Lakes News Mid Ohio April 21-23, 2006By John Graber Published: April 24, 2006  Print  EmailApril 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
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