After a tough start this weekend, and missing more than half the on track sessions, the #40 car ran perfectly come race time.

I got a good start in the race as the green flag dropped, moving from 7th to 5th by the end of the first lap. I knew I was faster than the guys ahead of me and took an easy the first half hour of the race. The top 3 cars were in a real battle and I let them bang it out. From fifth I managed to gain 2 positions just from two cars ahead of me making contact and thus, leaving the door open for me to sneak by both of them.

By the time I got into second place the leader had a rather large lead on the rest of the field. Chasing him down for 15+ laps I ran the fastest laps I had run all weekend ( also setting the fastest laps of the race at the time)

A yellow flag came out and I took over the lead. After Leading for 21 laps; however, a stop and go penalty and a flat tire took the #40 car out of the top 10.

At this time John got in the car and brought the car home in a solid 20th.

The race will be aired on Speed Channel June 10th at 3pm Eastern time.

I am now off to a Porsche club race this coming weekend at Wakens Glen. And then a nice weekend off before going north to Canada.

-scott

Hello,

With a new motor put in the car we had high hopes for the weekend.

Unfortunately, the high hopes were let down when the motor would not start before the Friday morning practice. The #40 Porsche did not do more than 1 lap in both of the Friday practice sessions. The team worked real had searching for the problem and trying anything to get the car working.

We thought we had a fix for the motor issue in time for the Saturday morning practice. My team mate get his first laps in the car getting quicker and quicker as the session went on. However, When i got in the car i noticed smoke behind me and did not want to risk hurting the motor, so I brought the car in to the garage.

For qualifying we decided to change it up. Instead of John qualifying the car and starting the race, we decided I would. With only 1 lap on the track I was questioning how well the qualifying would go. With only 15 min to learn the track and get a feel for the set-up on the car, I pushed hard to do a lap time of 59.5 good enough for a solid 7th place.

The race is Monday morning (starting at 10 AM and ending at 12:30) and is also televised to be aird in a couple weeks.

The weekend is turning around and things are looking good again.
-scott

hello,

The #40 car had its highs and lows this past weekend at Laguna. The car ran strong all weekend ending many of the practices in the top 10.

John Bibbo (co-driver) qualified the car 27th and in the race quickly passed 7 cars. However, while running a strong 20th, John was pushed off the track by another competitor. When returning to the racing surface the car hit a curb which resulted in damaging an oil line. John brought the car back to the pits and the repair was not fixable in time to get the car back out on the track.

I look forward to LimeRock this next weekend. I raced here last year with formula bmw and feel that this track favors porsches. Expect to see the #40 porsche running up front the whole weekend.

-scott

Hey,

Tomorrow I leave for Laguna Seca. For this race I will not be needing to fly instead just a short drive down the coast.

The first Practice starts Friday, warm-up and qualifying on Saturday, and the 2 1/2 hr race begins Sunday morning. I will once again post updates at the end of the days on how they went.

John (my co- driver) and I both have experience on this track. Some of my experience at this track includes my first ever race win (in a car) in a Skip Barber Formula Dodge.

-scott