37 replies to this topic

[Greg Gauper]

BTW - After watching Gagliardi's video ( the VW that finished behind me in 2nd) I'm kinda glad I couldn't see anything out the back window
http://www.youtube.c...nel_video_title

[Doodson]

YOU are the man , THATS awesome! and my flares are national champion material ,lol

Congrats

[kakabox]

Congratulations to Greg for a great drive in the rain!

Yes indeed. Congratulations!

J.

[jwr914]

Back in Houston and at work (well at the track). Congratulations to Greg for the great drive. It was perhaps one of my scariest races ever. I chose to go with a lightly grooved slick (cut about 5 inches apart) both front and rear. Don't know if full wets would have been better, but made the choice without ever driving there in the rain. Put my head down with one lap to go and caught up to the rear of Greg's train. I got inside Isley on turn 5 entry and he went off wide with lock up and I made the clean inside pass. Led pretty well all the way to 12 (Canada) and he returned the favor. I was mid track and left him enough room right or left to make the banzai pass thinking he would go off again. Well as we all know now he saved it and didn't take either of us out. Great piece of driving himself. Greg is right, I'm happy with the finish position. Drove as hard as I could and so did Greg, Dick, Jason and Matt. My car was just the opposite of Greg's fast as hell in the front and scary, scary, scary from 8 to 12. The start was pretty worrisome for all of us. Some of the back guys jumped up into the mix and took each other out by turn 5. Greg and I barely made it through 3 without getting hit. Matt Brannon said he got hit and knocked off track by the yellow car that spun in front/beside Greg and I on 3 exit. Luckily he was able to continue and work his way back up.

My windshield was "OK" with the RainX applied the day before. RA is long and fast keeping the inside of the car cooler than shorter tracks. It doesn't work with short tracks.

Most likely will sell the car this year as I made a three year commitment to HP and it's time is up. If it doesn't sell I will run enough races to qualify again. We'll just have to wait and see if I do decide to run RA again. Long hard haul up and back. The week of Hotel expense is bothersome as well.

Thanks to Greg for all the help and advice these last couple of years. He's become a true friend and great competitor. My first year to RA he gave me his spare caliper when I lost one in Qualifying. You just can't ask for better than that.

James Rogerson
HP #66
4th and proud of it!

HP Civic for sale only driven on weekends by senior citizen. Spares include extra built engine (never run), both engines with uncut stock heads direct from Honda. Titanium valves. The list goes on and on. $25,000

[Greg Gauper]

James,
As luck would have it, I will be down your way in Pearland this weekend installing some upgrades for one of our customers.
Maybe we can get together Monday night and have a beer to celebrate.

[Richard Pare]

FYI - I have been running the custom hubs that Richard from ICP built for the group buy since the begining of the season.

Shameless plug! (I'll take it!) (Still got a couple pairs left.....)

Congrats on a fine win - a rain win is always doubly satisfying!

Defogging windsheilds: For the life of me I'll never understand why this should ever be a problem - keep the windshield warm, and you'll never get fogging. For some funny reason, the manufacturers equip the cars with defogging ducts right from the factory.....

Just make a metal box to go around the exhaust collector, run some flex hose up the the original ducts, and use a fan to pump the air through the box up to the windshield - viola! problem solved.

[gustav129]

Congrats!

[Greg Gauper]

Congrats on a fine win - a rain win is always doubly satisfying!

Thanks Richard and congrats to you as well!
For those of you that don't follow the other classes, Citations placed 2nd in Formula B and 4th in Formula C.
We were pulling for Rubenzer in Formula F who qualified second and ran as high as third before dropping out due to a loose wheel.

[BigOrange]

Thumbs up!

[Richard Pare]

Thanks, Greg.

Unfortunately, Dixon (FB) spun out in some water while in the lead, only a couple laps from the end, but still managed to salvage 2nd. Too bad - that would have been 2 in a row for him in that car and class. The FB's are turning into little rocketships!

Rubenzer (FF) - what can I say? Champ one year, DNF the next from a simple prep mistake.

LaRue (FC) - Woulda, shoulda, coulda. At least he was the first among the Goodyear contingent!


Everybody have a good winter!

Edited by Richard Pare, 28 September 2011 - 08:52 PM.

[Greg Gauper]

Ok...
I drove the race and could not believe I won.
I watched my in-car video and I could not believe I won.
I watched the in-car video from the Dick's car (2nd place) and I could not believe I won.

Tonight I got to watch the rebroadcast of the race.
http://www.speedcast...cca/#/races/260

I think it finally sunk in. I won! Wow!

[E-AT_me]

hahahaa. just reading this thread now. congratulations man!

[Doodson]

My buddy always bugs me about haw much faster a CRX would be and to build one instead of playing with my civic, I will send him a link to the video , LOL

[anjin]

Yeah, congratulations Greg. Very good drive. Between the two incar vids and the tv coverage and commentary, it was an interesting viewing and read. Thouroughly enjoyed it.

[ITCRACER]

Congrats Greg. Great race.