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Posted by: Qarl Jul 1 2003, 12:10 PM

Haven't heard from the resident A-hole in a while...

Posted by: seanery Jul 1 2003, 12:25 PM

He's racing : see "Mid-Ohio Pics" and "Mid-Ohio Dinner".

He is in Daytona now for a race Thursday night.

Posted by: JRust Jul 1 2003, 12:34 PM

Wow he actually gets ut of the shop every once in a while. I figured between that & finding those few moments each day to be on the site he'd have no life. NOt a bad life dealing with Porsches all day I have to admit though! Hope you have a great time Brad

Posted by: maf914 Jul 1 2003, 02:22 PM

Isn't Brad working the Grand Am night race at Daytona? You could go visit him Karl. Only an hour away. Not sure what night it is, but you would have to infiltrate NASCAR occupied territory to find him! I wait until the track has sportscar races in February and November and the crowds are down, along with hotel rates.

Mike

Posted by: seanery Jul 1 2003, 02:24 PM

the race is thursday night, television coverage is either Friday or Saturday, can't really remember.
Practice is Wednesday, race on Thursday night - late.

Posted by: Jeroen Jul 1 2003, 02:55 PM

I guess Brad finally gave up on us suckers with 914s
He's playing with the GT3-gods now

cheers,

Jeroen
(only slightly jealous )

Posted by: tahoward Jul 1 2003, 06:44 PM

Nice work if you can get it! He's having a blast with that group he works with. Hopefully the racing gods will smile on them this week!

Posted by: GWN7 Jul 3 2003, 08:09 PM

Looks like there 12th out of the gate http://www.grandamerican.com/race_results/view_qual1437.h

and it looks like it's shown at 3:00pm ET http://www.grandamerican.com/broadcast_schedule.html

Posted by: Jeroen Jul 4 2003, 08:23 AM

Wow! Looks like they did extremely good.

They finished 5th overall and 2nd in class.
Congrats to the "Minds over Motorsports" team!!!



cheers,

Jeroen

Posted by: Bleyseng Jul 5 2003, 11:35 AM

Can't find the results, so which race is it??? I am watching Speedvision now, Calif 250.

Geoff

Posted by: Jeroen Jul 5 2003, 11:39 AM

Hey Geoff,

It's the "paul revere 250" at Daytona

You can watch the results http://www.grandamerican.com/race_results/view_final98.html

cheers,

Jeroen

PS, they even beat the Gunnar Racing GT1

Posted by: Bleyseng Jul 5 2003, 11:49 AM

Its the Rosser Racing Team??

Geoff

Posted by: seanery Jul 5 2003, 01:21 PM

Yup,

the race was Thursday nite, they showed it on SPEED yesterday at 3pm EDT. They showed the pitstop and how slow it was. Looked like there was some trouble with the vent hose.



Randy Pobst (Far Right)
Blake Rosser (next to Randy)

those are from the http://www.grand-am.com

Posted by: seanery Jul 5 2003, 01:32 PM

Here's some from California MS

passing the 58 car


on the podium
Randy Pobst (again-far left)
Blake Rosser (next to Randy)

Posted by: seanery Jul 5 2003, 01:33 PM

oh, the Gunnar GT1 was equiped with a GT3R engine and suspension. At least that's what they said on TV during an interview. Kyle Petty ran as driver #3 for them.

Posted by: Jeroen Jul 5 2003, 05:52 PM

Yep the Gunnar car isn't really a GT1
It's a tubeframe car with a GT1 body and like you said a GT3 engine
IIRC the gearbox is from a GT1

Still, you'd expect a car like that to do much better

Those Daytona prototypes from Brumos are soooooo ugly

cheers,

Jeroen

Posted by: Bleyseng Jul 5 2003, 06:55 PM

Well, Randy Pobst won some race on Speedvision today. I think the Calif 250.

Geoff

Posted by: seanery Jul 5 2003, 07:19 PM

bite your tongue Jeroen, the FABCAR DP's are beautiful, even the toyota powered one isn't bad (yep, toyota FABCAR). It's got different head and tail lights.

Posted by: seanery Jul 5 2003, 07:20 PM

Geoff,
that was the Grand Am Cup which is similar to speed channel world challenge, those were tape delayed. They ran the same weekend as when Brad was there.

Posted by: Part Pricer Jul 6 2003, 01:38 PM

That was it. We had some problems with the fuel hoses and were not getting any fuel into the car. We got enough in to finish the race though. We thought that we were going to have to bring Randy in for a "splash and go" to finish the race.

I just got in. I'll have some pictures and the story a little later.

Posted by: Brad Roberts Jul 7 2003, 01:18 PM

Sean,

Did they show me coming off the car with the fuel hoses ?? I came off the car and was blinded by the camera lights.. I wasnt sure if it would make it to TV or not. They came by later during the race and asked Chris what happened on camera.

It sucked. I had to RIG a vent line fitting at Ohio (Sean helped me) and it came back to bite us at Daytona. The support truck that runs around to each event (BSR) didnt have what I needed to make the fuel rig 100% legal for Grand Am. They let us slide for Fontana... and the team didnt do anything about it in between rounds...

B

Posted by: seanery Jul 7 2003, 04:58 PM

what happened to it (the vent line) ?

Posted by: seanery Jul 7 2003, 04:59 PM

they showed you standing there trying and trying to get fuel in ... seemed like a looooong stop. They cut away before the end of it.

Posted by: Brad Roberts Jul 8 2003, 11:34 PM

Fuel sloshed up into the vent line and blocked it when I jumped the wall and tried to fuel the car. I made DAMN sure there was none in the line prior to the fuel stop. It sloshed into the line when I started yanking on everything.

DAMN. I need to see the race.


B