VIDEO: Vintage Group in PCA Race at Summit Point, lots of 914's in the group...3 were the fastest overall!! Options

[naro914]

Posted in the Paddock....but since everyone here like videos!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Participated in my first Vintage Group race with PCA this past weekend at Summit Point. Loads of fun!! Simple class rules, though their going to have to change some for next year. 4 classes:
VO4/VU4 for 4 cyl Over and Under 2.0 liter
VO6/VU6 for 6 cyl Over and Under 2.4 liter

All are good except VO6 because you can have anything from a 2.5 liter all the way to 'sky's the limit'...4.0 liter monsters. I was one of the "highly modified monsters' along with 2 other cars (914's!!) ...we lapped the field...at least once...
There were at least 8 914's in the race (I think more like 10)

Unfortunately, I didn't have a lot of "racing" to do...the other two cars are WAY more developed than my Papa Smurf, so they kinda ran away from me. And I ran away from 4th place...so as the announcer said, I had a "lonely" third place in race 2 and 3....Race 1 the other 914 started last so he never really caught us.

However....in Race 3, I ran out of gas...so did the other two guys and 5 others in the group. On grid, with 3 minutes to go, we were told "Oh, btw, this is a 30 lap race, not 20...do you have enough gas?"

I had no idea...but in the end, I guess the answer was "Uh...no I do not!!"

I feel like I'm going SO SLOW looking at these videos!! Felt fast in the car! Need to work on my gearing - T1 really sucks with these gears. 2 is too short, 3 is too tall.

Enjoy...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPHFJhtZjcU

[buck toenges]

Are the owners of the other two highly modified 914s members here? Can you tell us how there cars were more developed then you? I always thought you were the big Kahuna of the 914 race world.

Buck