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Jeff Emery found the Savannah Harbor Circuit to his liking, his offset chassis Port City stock car chassis certainly knew the fast way around the fast heavily banked turn one, which is probably like something found at Rockingham!
Emery cut a fast 1:15.9xx in qualifying for the GT class V8 races with HSR.
Emery then won both on Saturday & Sunday. Emery's talented crew chief
Fred Strube has turned the ex short track late model into a road course monster.
Dave Machavern was third overall on Sat. and second in the V8 class running laps in the 1:17.s. Second overall in the group was the ex TA Mustang of Don Soenen.
Former IMSA Camel GT racer Pete Kirill brought out the Camaro he recently purchased and ran well despite not having raced for twenty plus years. Tommy Riggins is prepping the car for Pete in his Jacksonville, Fl shop. The car was originally built in the BEMCO shop in Deland about twenty years
ago and actually was a class winner at the ROLEX 24 hours of Daytona circa 2000.
Ray Webb brought out his Riggins Olds Cutlass for what may be the last time for him before he moves to his Riggins Corvette.
Former Nascar Dash series champ Larry Hoopaugh dominated the SPO stock car class with two wins running laps in 1:20's and Kurt Roehrig was the GTA class fast guy winning on Saturday and running consistent
1:21's often on Hoopaugh's tail. The Cup type cars did very well on this circuit
as they could keep the keep the late model types at bay on the tight, difficult
to pass back side and then rocket away down the straights.
Squeak Kennedy and I brought out our ASA type stocker with its'
new carbureted LS1 for a shake down and ran laps in the 1:25's
despite a carb that would quit in the banked turn one and several
other spots on the track.
I thought it was a fun, interesting track with two pretty fast straights, some elevation changes, tight sections and the very cool NASCAR style turn one. Great Job by the friendly HSR folks keeping things
running on schedule. Hope we are able to run with them more in the future.
Despite this being a very late addition to the V8 series schedule we had 13
stock cars and about 8 GT cars enter.
Emery cut a fast 1:15.9xx in qualifying for the GT class V8 races with HSR.
Emery then won both on Saturday & Sunday. Emery's talented crew chief
Fred Strube has turned the ex short track late model into a road course monster.
Dave Machavern was third overall on Sat. and second in the V8 class running laps in the 1:17.s. Second overall in the group was the ex TA Mustang of Don Soenen.
Former IMSA Camel GT racer Pete Kirill brought out the Camaro he recently purchased and ran well despite not having raced for twenty plus years. Tommy Riggins is prepping the car for Pete in his Jacksonville, Fl shop. The car was originally built in the BEMCO shop in Deland about twenty years
ago and actually was a class winner at the ROLEX 24 hours of Daytona circa 2000.
Ray Webb brought out his Riggins Olds Cutlass for what may be the last time for him before he moves to his Riggins Corvette.
Former Nascar Dash series champ Larry Hoopaugh dominated the SPO stock car class with two wins running laps in 1:20's and Kurt Roehrig was the GTA class fast guy winning on Saturday and running consistent
1:21's often on Hoopaugh's tail. The Cup type cars did very well on this circuit
as they could keep the keep the late model types at bay on the tight, difficult
to pass back side and then rocket away down the straights.
Squeak Kennedy and I brought out our ASA type stocker with its'
new carbureted LS1 for a shake down and ran laps in the 1:25's
despite a carb that would quit in the banked turn one and several
other spots on the track.
I thought it was a fun, interesting track with two pretty fast straights, some elevation changes, tight sections and the very cool NASCAR style turn one. Great Job by the friendly HSR folks keeping things
running on schedule. Hope we are able to run with them more in the future.
Despite this being a very late addition to the V8 series schedule we had 13
stock cars and about 8 GT cars enter.
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