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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 02:41 PM

Some of you here locally have heard me talk about my buddy who is a long term family friend of Brauns and has known Collin since age 1. Well I was lucky enough to get to tag along for the Rolex series race last weekend in Birmingham.

It was awsome!!! We had hot pit passes and got to hang around with Collin, his family and most everyone with Krohn Racing. What a weekend. Anyone who has gotten to see a race like this in the pits knows, that these pictures don't do justice. But here they are anyway.

Young Collin and his dad "entertaining" on qualifying day....


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 02:44 PM

Qualifying......


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 02:45 PM

checkered flag....


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Posted by: Brad Roberts Aug 1 2006, 02:47 PM

Interesting.

ALMS makes everyone in the hot pit wear fire suits.

Something else of interest: Your association with one of the wealthiest oil men in the country (Tracy Krohn) I knew he was based out of Texas.

Must be nice to land a ride like that!!


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 02:49 PM

can you say "pole position"???


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 02:49 PM

Porsche power.....


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 02:50 PM

Sunday morning practice runs in the wet....


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 02:51 PM

more from turn 1&2


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Posted by: Brad Roberts Aug 1 2006, 02:51 PM

Who was his co driver? I forget. I watched the race but dont recall.

One of my best friends was on the Barbour team when Krohn tried his hand at the Lambo's in the ALMS.


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 02:52 PM

nother


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 02:52 PM

me, with my home team colors on......


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Posted by: Brad Roberts Aug 1 2006, 02:53 PM

One of our club members (MattR) builds tests and dyno's the DP engines for Ruby Tuesday/Alex Job.

Oh.. you can attach more than one picture in each post.


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 02:54 PM

Collin getting ready...


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 02:57 PM

Green flag...turn 1


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 02:58 PM

driver change....they were hoping for a 1 stop race. But the extra warm up laps before the start kinda hurt them...


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 02:59 PM

the wolfman


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 03:00 PM

a little "post race excitement"


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 03:01 PM

Winners.....


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 03:03 PM

Rode hard and put up wet. Which is how I felt after 2 days of 90+deg temps and 90+ percent humidity.




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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 03:04 PM

Jorg Bergmiester.

Posted by: Brad Roberts Aug 1 2006, 03:06 PM

That's right!

Would I be guessing correctly if I said: Jorg qualified the car?

Did Collin/family pay for the seat?


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Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 03:07 PM

no lie. That guy knows how to have a "hobby". You know he drives the 75 car.

Posted by: Cap'n Krusty Aug 1 2006, 03:27 PM

Well, Grand Am is NASCAR, tnd they're the LAST to adopt anything that takes away from the family's bottom line, so where's the surprise? The Cap'n

Posted by: BMXerror Aug 1 2006, 03:34 PM

Man, I would love to race those things! I am so jealous of those kids who grew up in a racing family with all the support (moral and financial) for their hobby (before it was a career). It kinda seems like it's impossible for a guy like myself to make it anywhere in racing, but I have some time. Not to take away from his skill. GJ Collin. Love the Alex Job car too. 510 HP out of 3.8 liters! Yikes!
Mark D.

Posted by: jr91472 Aug 1 2006, 03:44 PM

No, he is a paid driver. His dad (Jeff?) is chief engineer for the 75 car. Jeff is supposed to be one of the best.

Posted by: Brad Roberts Aug 1 2006, 03:51 PM

BMX,

you havent missed anything.

Ask:

David Murray
Randy Pobst
Craig Stanton
Hurley Haywood

Ask them all how old they are. All of them are pro. and none of them are under age 45. Craig started super late (like age 38 or something)

The key is: money, or access to it. Anyone (and I mean anyone) can rent a seat at any given time. Before The Racers Group got big.. it was "only" 40k to rent a seat in one of their worn out/beat up GT3RSR's for one ALMS weekend. Cheaper for Daytona and CA. tracks.

It's never too late (Paul Newman is what? 75 or 76 )


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Posted by: Brad Roberts Aug 1 2006, 03:53 PM

They are WAY over that. That is what "has" to be published.


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Posted by: maf914 Aug 2 2006, 11:19 AM

Thanks for the photos!

I watched the race on TV this year. We went to the race last year and the year before. It rained on-and-off for both of these and the humidity was out of sight. It would go from overcast to steamy hot sunshine. Talk about sweating! I don't know why they gave a track in Alabama a July date. This is the deep south people! The weather is one of the reasons we didn't go back this year.

Having said that, I do think the Barber Motorsport Park is a really nice little circuit. More like a club track, but well done.