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AIM & Doncaster - Monterey DP qualifying, GT race |
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
DP qualifying
AIM Autosport qualified seventh for Sunday's Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif., but the strong qualifying effort was lost when a minor technical violation put the No. 61 Lexus-powered Riley Mk XI back to 17th on the 19-car grid. Burt Frisselle of Lynchburg, Va., qualified seventh in the gold-backed car he shares with Mark Wilkins of Toronto, but his lap of one minute 21.605 seconds on the 2.238-mile road course was disallowed when the car's front bodywork was found to be too wide. The bodywork was damaged in an off-track excursion on Friday, putting it just out of compliance. The car was one of four sent to the back of the grid.
"I'm so happy with the car today. We had a great race car," Frisselle enthused. "Unfortunately for me, I had a ton of traffic and I was only able to get one lap that was remotely clear – and I still got blocked. We were going to start seventh, that was a great result and a good place for us to start because our car is really coming together."
GT race
Doncaster Racing was zapped during the Saturday Rolex Series GT race at
Laguna Seca. Dave Lacey of Toronto started 11th on the 22-car grid,
gained four positions in the first two laps of the race and moved up to
fifth during his stint. Greg Wilkins of Toronto took over at 1h2,
returning to the track 12th. Fighting a throttle problem, he went
off-track and had to wait for a tow to continue. He dropped to 17th,
but regained two positions to finish 15th.
race report
car time driver action
17 start Lacey
5m Lacey pit – fuel
1h2 change pit – Wilkins in, four tires, fuel
1h11 Wilkins off track, turn 8
Dave Lacey "We didn't really have a great setup on the car until
warmup. We started 11th and worked our way to fifth, then
unfortunately, Greg had a bit of problem with the throttle sticking up
in the Corkscrew, went off and got in the gravel. We're looking to get
to the setup earlier in the weekend for the next two events; we've got
the sweet spot on the car now."
Greg Wilkins "The throttle was sticking under braking, which was
making it a bit hard to get the car slowed down. It got a bit of
turn-in oversteer and I just lost in up in the Corkscrew and that set
us back for the day. The car was actually pretty good, very driveable.
It's a hard track, a very physical track and you don't get much time to
rest out there."
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