Suby takes One lap, day 7 :nana:
Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 11:57 am
It wasn’t the kind of day a driver would pick for running fast laps on America’s fastest road racing course — unless that driver happened to be behind the wheel of a hotted-up Subaru WRX STi.
That description applies to Luke Russell, the young hotshoe from Fort Myers, Florida, who pedaled his ’04 STi to first place in both Road America runs.
It’s hard to say which of these achievements was more impressive.
The first round was run in a light but steady rain, making for very slick track conditions — so slick, in fact, that nine cars failed to finish their three laps owing to various encounters with gravel, tire walls, and/or concrete barriers.
Yet Russell’s Subie prevailed, setting the fastest time of the day in the process.
While Friday’s second run was deflating for the Car and Driver BMW M5 crew — not only were we harassed by Hondas and manhandled by Minis, we finished behind almost every other car in the Luxury Sedan class — the day’s strangely scrambled points left us 11th in the overall standings and solidly first in class.
pray for rain
AMEN. That is quite good.sabre wrote:The best is when you pass 4x4's and SUV's in the snow, HAHAHAHAHA
Cereb Daithi wrote:i remember in my youth when i was caught up in the SUV craze.. lets say it was like.. 94 i believe.. and our explorer couldnt get up this one muddy hill in 4X4 mode... all of a sudden this outback shows up... and owns the hell out of hte hill and just goes 'zip' right up... from that moment on i saw the light