Friday morning I went to Tech to get my car inspected. While there Rich approached me about being my naviagator. He had brought all his equipment, which was up to Grand Sports specs. The only thing he didn't have was arm restraints, which were just required this year for the 145 and up classes. As luck would have it, Randy Rideout, who had entered his 82 Trans Am in the 135 class had brough his and offered to let Rich borrow them. We then went over to registration, and signed Rich up. While there he picked up his numbers and transferred his reg fees to the Pony Express. We then drove out to the practice location. On the way, I demonstrated the vibration to Rich. We got to the starting location a little early, and after a short discussion, we decide to go to the city of Wells and get the rear tires balanced. Wells is about 60 miles west of Wendover, and is the closest city with a tire shop. I stopped at the Les Schwab Tire Shop and arranged to get the tires balanced. I took off each wheel, and let them do there work. After I had reinstalled the last wheel, I asked, "how much?" Well they were very generous, and said no charge.

Sunday was race day. We were to report to the pre-grid, third deck of the parking structure, at 7;00 AM. When we got there, it was a mess. Cars all over, military trucks, private vehicles, and participants scrambling to get to their assigned slots. Apparently the hotel management forgot to block off the 3 level, and people continued to park there. It was decided to move the pregrid to the Nevada Welcome Center parking lot. After all the cars were on pre-grid and the course workers and emergency vehicles were in position we were called to the starting grid (8:45 AM). There we got into our assigned positions and had a short driver's meeting. Around 8:10 AM the first vehicle rolled up to the starting line. At 8:18 I roared off the line and started my Southbound run.

Rich read off the course notes,"Left 140 short. Gentle left hand sweeper into 3.9 mile straight", "130 Left, short. Gentle left hand sweeper". I just kept my foot on the floor and pointed the car in the right direction. I was able to get through the turns at 5-15 mph faster then the course notes. The car handle beautifully, and the engine ran great. We crossed the finish line at 21:22.34 on Rich's stop watch, right on time. We parked in a lot at the 93/93A junction. We waited there until all the cars had finished the up hill run. After a sweep of the course, we assembled for the return run. At 12:58, I started down the short straight to the 130 mph right hand sweeper. The wind had come up, and we had a 20-30 mph crosswind on some of the high passes. I had to take the downhill run at a more cautious pace through some of the turns, and use the long straights to get back the time. We were able to cross the finish line at 42:02.67, .19 seconds slow. Of course this was on the stop watch, the offical time would be announce at the awards dinner later that night.

928 Results

Division	Target	Number	Driver/Navigator	Model	Finish	Times/Avg Speed
Grand Sport	145 mph	103	George A Suennen Richard Sanders	90 928 S4	2nd	21:22.520/20:40.567 (+0.604) 144.965 mph (-0.035)
Grand Touring	125 mph	87	Dave Lomas Robert Spencer	86.5 928 S	2nd	24:43.977/23:57.868 (-4.235) 125.181 mph (+0.181)

Official Results

Radar/Trap Speeds (South/North)

Target/Limit	Driver/Navigator	Radar #1	Radar #2	Radar #3	Radar #4	Radar #5	Trap Speed
145 mph/ 165 mph	George A Suennen Richard Sanders	164 mph 147 mph	137 mph 156 mph	153 mph 159 mph	141 mph 158 mph	143 mph NA	163.845 mph 162.866 mph
125 mph/ 140 mph	Dave Lomas Robert Spencer	129 mph 123 mph	127 mph 126 mph	124 mph 124 mph	126 mph 136 mph	115 mph 117 mph	129.032 mph 124.121 mph

Official Radar Results

Official Trap Results

After the awards dinner and a 2 hour delay, the preliminary results were annouced. Dave Lomas and Robert Spencer got a 2nd in their first rally, in the 125 mph class. They had made a small miscalulation on the return run, and came in 2 seconds too soon, instead of too late. Rich and I got 2nd in the 145 class, just .006 mph behind David and Pat Bone. To round out Team Porsche's results Fred Wagner got a 1st in the 130 class and Roger Greene got a 2nd in the 135 class.

Photo Gallery
June 19, 2003 (14 photos)	Thumbnail Menu Slide Show	June 20, 2003 (91 photos)	Thumbnail Menu Slide Show
June 22, 2003-PreRally (106 photos)	Thumbnail Menu Slide Show	June 22, 2003-Rally (126 photos)	Thumbnail Menu Slide Show
June 22, 2003-Awards (67 photos)	Thumbnail Menu Slide Show	June 22, 2003-Gate 16 (22 photos)	Thumbnail Menu
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Video Clips (No sound)
My car		Dave's car
South bound 5.7 Mb	North bound 9.0 Mb	South bound 12.6 Mb	North bound 3.6 Mb
These videos were provided by Quinn Capson who was working the corners with his new bride, Meg and other family members.

In car Video
5 Minute Clip from the South bound leg
Turns 3 - 16 (117 - 163 mph) 50 Mb
30 Second Clips from the South bound leg
Turns 3-4 (134-161) 5 Mb	Turns 5-6 (134-140) 5 Mb	Turns 6-8 (122-138) 5 Mb

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