Showing posts with label Mosport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mosport. Show all posts
July 25, 2011
11/10ths
Just sit back and enjoy this battle between the Flying Lizards Porsche Gt3 RS of Jörg Bermeister and the BMW M3 GT of Bill Auberlen at the Mosport ALMS race. They are both driving the boobs off the cars
Speaking of driving the boobs off a car, check out the last lap battle between TRG teammates Dion Von Moltke and Spencer Pumpelly (CG's driver coach) after the jump.
August 29, 2010
ALMS Mosport: Ride along in the #92 BMW M3
Tommy Milner keeping cool at the office, in this case the newly rebuilt #92 BMW M3 GT which had been destroyed in a crash at Raod America just this past week end.
Millner and Bill Auberlen qualified second in the GT calss less than three 1/100 of a second behind the Flying Lizard Porsche of Bergmaister/Long.
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Millner and Bill Auberlen qualified second in the GT calss less than three 1/100 of a second behind the Flying Lizard Porsche of Bergmaister/Long.
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August 6, 2009
Axis CG Dominates Mosport Sprints.
This past week end our own CG took overall wins in both of Porsche Club of America's Sprint races at Mosport with his H Stock Cayman S and coming within a few hundredths of a second of the track record for the class.
The first video summarizes Sprint race 2 and his nice battle with Scott Gerard in a 1999 Porsche 996 racer. The two cars both have 3.4 liter engines with the Cayman weighing in at 3197lbs and the 996, 3068 lbs (weights with drivers). Unfortunately both cars suffered transmission trouble and could not take part in the later Enduro race. CG's 3-2 "money shift at about 2:30 into video may or may not have had anything to do with it...
After the jump, CG's qualifying lap video, the data overlay is a bit out of sync but you get the idea. Mosport looks like a fun track, bumpy, with lots of elevation changes and the added bonus of a looming concrete wall around most of it!
(thank you Scott for the use of the 996 onboard!)
May 21, 2009
Racing North of the Border: Trans-Am Mosport
Michael Skeen sent us his latest report from the Muscle Milk Trans-Am race in Mosport, Canada. These are are such raw beasts, great to watch!
Racing North of the Border
Round 3 of the 2009 Muscle Milk Trans-Am series was headed north of the border to the infamous Mosport International Raceway and thousands of enthusiastic Canadian race fans. This was the first time any of us at Atlantic Autosport had been to the facility, but we were excited about the opportunity to share a race weekend with the SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge series and some of Canada’s finest touring car drivers.
Arriving at the track midday Thursday, we were able to get the rig parked and set up in the paddock without any major trouble. We made final preparations to the car so that it would be ready for the promoter test day on Friday—my first opportunity to get on the track and forecasted to be the best weather all weekend.
Friday morning’s first session went very well as we got up to speed quickly with a baseline setup from Scott Murphy that was very good. We were already very close to the pace and had a good idea where we could pick up more time. However, the second session changed our weekend outlook.
After just a couple laps, I noticed the car start to sound a bit off-song, so I brought it to pit road where we could hear a significant valve tick. We ended the session early and took the car back to the paddock to find the adjuster bolt on the number four intake rocker arm stripped and loose.
We hunted the paddock for spares with generous help from our competitors, but none were a match for ours. Many locals pointed us to various shops and engine builders, but we still came up empty handed until we found Dan Boudreau, a local GM toolmaker of many years that happened to have a machine shop in his backyard. Within minutes, he had installed a screw thread insert in our rocker arm and we were ready to get the car back on the track. Unfortunately, we had already wasted the afternoon searching for a solution and missed all of the remaining Friday test sessions.
The weather forecast showed sporadic rain all day Saturday, but dry and cool weather all through race day. Rather than put extra time on the car for wet-weather practice, we left the car parked on Saturday and saved as much as we could for qualifying and the race on Sunday.
With very few laps on a new track and a car of unknown reliability, our goal for qualifying was to go out and set some baseline laps that would keep us in the top half of the field for the race start. After a couple laps, I had put in some decent times but I found myself in traffic and decided to pit for a basic check of the car. As soon as I stopped in the pit box we could hear a valve tick starting to develop again, so we parked the car early to avoid any unnecessary damage.
Back in the paddock we found that the push rod under our repaired rocker arm had been fractured on the tip and shortened to the point that the valve was out of adjustment. With a new push rod from our Canadian competitor, Blaise Csida, we were up and running again in time for the race.
We were optimistic with our fourth position on the grid, knowing we had a better pace than we showed in qualifying. With a clean start, I followed Trans-Am veterans Jorge Diaz, Tony Ave, and Tommy Drissi as we straightened out after the first turn. The car was handling quite well and the power felt respectable considering the abuse the engine had taken all weekend, but after a few laps I could feel and hear problems. It was tough to watch the leaders pull away when I pitted on lap four, but it was clear that the car had lost power and we were risking a catastrophic failure that could have oiled the track if I continued circulating. Rather than do that, we took the car back to the paddock and began to load up for the long haul home.
It is certainly frustrating to give up what could have been a great result, but as they say, “that is why we run the races.” To go to a new track with an under-developed GT-1 car and run competitively among an experienced Trans-Am field is quite an accomplishment for the Atlantic Autosport team. I am proud of what we have done with our second place at the series-opener and two strong runs to follow that up, but I am afraid we will not be at Round Four.
We accomplished our goal of getting on the track and acquiring some valuable experience. Now is the time to step back and develop our program to take advantage of the strong potential it has shown. Keep watching for us as we prepare for the future!
Racing North of the Border
Round 3 of the 2009 Muscle Milk Trans-Am series was headed north of the border to the infamous Mosport International Raceway and thousands of enthusiastic Canadian race fans. This was the first time any of us at Atlantic Autosport had been to the facility, but we were excited about the opportunity to share a race weekend with the SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge series and some of Canada’s finest touring car drivers.Arriving at the track midday Thursday, we were able to get the rig parked and set up in the paddock without any major trouble. We made final preparations to the car so that it would be ready for the promoter test day on Friday—my first opportunity to get on the track and forecasted to be the best weather all weekend.
Friday morning’s first session went very well as we got up to speed quickly with a baseline setup from Scott Murphy that was very good. We were already very close to the pace and had a good idea where we could pick up more time. However, the second session changed our weekend outlook.
After just a couple laps, I noticed the car start to sound a bit off-song, so I brought it to pit road where we could hear a significant valve tick. We ended the session early and took the car back to the paddock to find the adjuster bolt on the number four intake rocker arm stripped and loose.We hunted the paddock for spares with generous help from our competitors, but none were a match for ours. Many locals pointed us to various shops and engine builders, but we still came up empty handed until we found Dan Boudreau, a local GM toolmaker of many years that happened to have a machine shop in his backyard. Within minutes, he had installed a screw thread insert in our rocker arm and we were ready to get the car back on the track. Unfortunately, we had already wasted the afternoon searching for a solution and missed all of the remaining Friday test sessions.
The weather forecast showed sporadic rain all day Saturday, but dry and cool weather all through race day. Rather than put extra time on the car for wet-weather practice, we left the car parked on Saturday and saved as much as we could for qualifying and the race on Sunday.
With very few laps on a new track and a car of unknown reliability, our goal for qualifying was to go out and set some baseline laps that would keep us in the top half of the field for the race start. After a couple laps, I had put in some decent times but I found myself in traffic and decided to pit for a basic check of the car. As soon as I stopped in the pit box we could hear a valve tick starting to develop again, so we parked the car early to avoid any unnecessary damage.
Back in the paddock we found that the push rod under our repaired rocker arm had been fractured on the tip and shortened to the point that the valve was out of adjustment. With a new push rod from our Canadian competitor, Blaise Csida, we were up and running again in time for the race.We were optimistic with our fourth position on the grid, knowing we had a better pace than we showed in qualifying. With a clean start, I followed Trans-Am veterans Jorge Diaz, Tony Ave, and Tommy Drissi as we straightened out after the first turn. The car was handling quite well and the power felt respectable considering the abuse the engine had taken all weekend, but after a few laps I could feel and hear problems. It was tough to watch the leaders pull away when I pitted on lap four, but it was clear that the car had lost power and we were risking a catastrophic failure that could have oiled the track if I continued circulating. Rather than do that, we took the car back to the paddock and began to load up for the long haul home.
It is certainly frustrating to give up what could have been a great result, but as they say, “that is why we run the races.” To go to a new track with an under-developed GT-1 car and run competitively among an experienced Trans-Am field is quite an accomplishment for the Atlantic Autosport team. I am proud of what we have done with our second place at the series-opener and two strong runs to follow that up, but I am afraid we will not be at Round Four.
We accomplished our goal of getting on the track and acquiring some valuable experience. Now is the time to step back and develop our program to take advantage of the strong potential it has shown. Keep watching for us as we prepare for the future!
August 30, 2007
Mosport and the Glen
It took a while but I finally straightened out the issues with the embed code in the Brightcove player so without further ado I wanted to thank Jeff Gabel and "shiners780" from Rochester, NY for uploading videos on the new AxisTT* TV.
Jeff uploaded a video from Mosport, a track we had never seen. I thought the Glen was intimidating with it's baby blue ARMCO all the way around...looks to me like Mosport's white cement walls might hurt even more!
Jeff captions:
The other ride is on board a 944 turbo at Watkins Glen. I always loved 944s, one of my favorite car shapes...and I've never even riden in one...so many cars, so little time.
Jeff and "shiners" should cantact me via e-mail and as our first featured reader videos will receive Axis stickers in the mail.
You can upload your video to Axis TT TV HERE
* Axis Track Tard
Jeff uploaded a video from Mosport, a track we had never seen. I thought the Glen was intimidating with it's baby blue ARMCO all the way around...looks to me like Mosport's white cement walls might hurt even more!
Jeff captions:
Second time tracking the M3, this time with the GVC BMW CCA at Mosport. B run group.
The other ride is on board a 944 turbo at Watkins Glen. I always loved 944s, one of my favorite car shapes...and I've never even riden in one...so many cars, so little time.
Jeff and "shiners" should cantact me via e-mail and as our first featured reader videos will receive Axis stickers in the mail.
You can upload your video to Axis TT TV HERE
* Axis Track Tard
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