Monday, June 20, 2011

More drivers!

Dave Steen and David Steen, Jr., have signed on as drivers for the July 16th race at BIR. They will also provide sponsorship from Dave's firm, Teleplus Consulting.

And it looks like Herm Johnson, former SCCA Super Vee Champion (1976), USAC Super Vee Champ (1977), ChampCar driver (1979-85) and Indianapolis 500 competitor (who is listed in Wikipedia), will be our fourth driver. "From ChampCar to ChumpCar"... I can see a News Release coming.

Since this will be a 14 hour race, there is still room for a driver or two.

I spent part of the weekend working my night job, but did manage to dig through some of my spares to load into bins for the race. I've seen other teams spend hours to find parts after a failure, and would prefer that our team is prepared for most anything. I have three or four plastic bins, and two are already full.

Mark Strohm said that he wanted to get his Toyota Corolla ITB car out for the SCCA regional at B.I.R. in a couple of weeks, but he would need to get a waiver since it's been a few years since he raced it. I suggested that he should enter it instead in the Exception Class (EC) at the ChumpCar race a week later. He could get a season worth of seat time, and so could three other drivers. He is considering it.