My PCA Weekend

So... got a call late Wednesday, asking if i were free to help work on a team this last weekend. I said "Ofcourse!"

Spencer Pumpelly testing out the brand new, off the boat 2011 GT3 Cup

09 Cup

Sitting on Pit Road

I had to sit in the car as driver's weight as they were on the scales...

Motec dash all lit up

The "Creamsicle"

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: So... got a call late Wednesday, asking if i were free to help work on a team this last weekend. I said "Ofcourse!" Spencer Pumpelly testing out the brand new, off the boat 2011 GT3 Cup

All-white, fresh-off-the-board GT3 Cup cars always look so cool.

David S. Wallens wrote: All-white, fresh-off-the-board GT3 Cup cars always look so cool.

...up until he backed it into the wall going into 10A.... Needs a new tub... can't broadcast those pictures...

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: Sitting on Pit Road

Digging the Martini helmet!

yea, thats Carlos Gomez. Has more money than God and Jesus combined. Paint scheme goes with his other racecar, Cayman S:

I met Carlos at the Glen when he used to do DE's in a Lotus Elise - we have a couple of friends in common (note the axisofoversteer.com sticker on the Cayman). http://axisofoversteer.blogspot.com/2011/03/axis-of-cup.html I'm guessing that car will be getting these stickers.

I haven't talked to him in years but I have noticed his name at the front of some pretty talented fields.

Sorry you had to work this weekend

Odd that the Martini car picture does not seem to include the Martini helmet.
Good looking Cayman!

DukeOfUndersteer wrote:

David S. Wallens wrote: All-white, fresh-off-the-board GT3 Cup cars always look so cool.

...up until he backed it into the wall going into 10A.... Needs a new tub... can't broadcast those pictures...

A bit ironic that the Duke of Understeer posted about a rear-engined Porsche backing into a wall. Guess they needed more of the Duke and less of the axis of oversteer.

T.J. wrote:

DukeOfUndersteer wrote:

David S. Wallens wrote: All-white, fresh-off-the-board GT3 Cup cars always look so cool.

...up until he backed it into the wall going into 10A.... Needs a new tub... can't broadcast those pictures...

A bit ironic that the Duke of Understeer posted about a rear-engined Porsche backing into a wall. Guess they needed more of the Duke and less of the axis of oversteer.

I wouldnt say it was a rookie mistake, because he knows how to drive a car. I think he just wasnt use to the power. This last weekend was the first time he had been in a car like this, first time using a sequential. By the end of the second session, he was lapping at 1:27s (aint a slow time). Just cold tires on a cold day.

I was put in charge of this car for the weekend:

Driver was in DE all weekend, real nice guy. Not much was done to it thru out the weekend. He was out just to have fun.

< jealous

...awaiting the info for my new job offer from Speed Sport...

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: I had to sit in the car as driver's weight as they were on the scales...

"PUT THE CAMERA DOWN AND SIT STILL DAMN IT!"