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... tomorrow (Sunday) from Mid-Ohio. Same day coverage, just time delayed. 1pm EDT, I believe.

My team, #99 Tiger Racing, qualified 5th today just .2 seconds behind Heinricy in the 3rd CTS-V.

Go Team.

Here's me getting the driver ready at the Sebring race this past March

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Speed World Challenge

[LG Motorsports]

Hi GUys,


It was a really fun race, with my "LG Pro Long Tube Special" Corvette Z06. (shameless plug)

My qualifying went bad when my 3 disc clutch gave up on the second lap and started slipping. So I just parked it and took a 10th place qualifying spot. The good thing was that I got a good start and went into turn 1 without losing a spot.

At the start, I got hit in the left door in turn one by a BMW that got hit by Phil Mclure. My car turned sidways and I was hit again on the left front by another car and straightened me out. At least I was able to keep going.

The damage took away some of my front downforce so the car was a little "Pushy" all race. Even though, I was able to get a run out of turn 1 on Angelelli. He blocked me for 3 for 3 laps but I finally got my nose in on his right rear bumper and made room for my self. I passed him entering turn 2 on the right along the grass. There was just enough room for my car and a sheet of paper but we pulled it off. Then we got a yellow flag for the smoking Viper.

On the restart I worked on the McCann Viper's mirrors until he made a mistake, then I got past him. There is no way that a C5 can pass the Viper on the strait unless they mess up the corner before. The Corvette does seem to work better in the corners than the Vipers but they have 8 liters, and that is hard to pass.

Then I set my sights on the next two cars. Oat's Corvette and a Porsche. I was catching them by nearly a second a lap and I think that info was passed on to the drivers. The C5 made a low percentage pass attempt and they hit each other and spun. This put me in 5th chasing the Viper of Tommy Archer.

I was catching him by 1/2 sec per lap, I set the 4th fastest time of the race, at a 1:29.805, ( the fastest lap of the race was a 1:29.657) but as they say, Catching and passing are two different things. I made some gallant tries but could not pull it off without crashing us both. So I settled for a 5th place.

All the while I had Angelelli just 2 seconds behind me, just waiting for me to make a mistake.

As for the Caddy and Audi domination? Well put it this way. There has not been another make of car on the podium all season. Were it not for the Audi, holding back and controlling the pace to just finish ahead of the Caddy, then the Caddy with no rewards weight of Heinricy would have left the field. So there is still work for SCCA to do to get the cars equal at their base weight, then the rewards weight will do it's job and let any make car able to win on any day. That is their goal, and their mission.

I could only pull 1 car length on the Caddy of Angelelli who had 120 pounds of rewards weight. that is like carrying your girlfriend with you during the race, and they were still FAST.

The Corvette is supposed to be the "Baseline". So we have to wait for the SCCA to pull the Caddy and Audi down to our level or let us do some work to the Corvette to step up our performance. Until then, we will do what we can to stay up in the fight.

Next race is Sears point on July 18th. Hope to see some of you there.

Good to see the interest in the Speed World Challenge here.

Thanks,
Lou Gigliotti LGM

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