Hey I think our races from Mosport are on today on Speed. Not sure of the time. We had a race on Saturday and one on Sunday. I think they are both aired today. Both were pretty good, but Sunday's had a better ending

Welcome to rewards weight, Lou!

Great drive, both days.

and

(for the Touring Car guys)

very nice Lou. and you give a great interview!

Someone want to put this in a nutshell for me. I missed it.

Saturday ...
You could throw a blanket over the top 10 drivers.
Lots of changes for position, 3 through 10
Gigliotti was punted by a Porsche with just a few laps to go.
Oates got into a tire wall, as I recall.
Audi won

Sunday ...
More strung out.
More wrecks
Audi attempted to pass on the outside ... WAY outside ...
Ron Fellows in a Caddy (w/o rewards weight ... Caddy has done this type thing before, haven't they?) was the class of the field
C5s ran 2/3 ... Reese and Gigliotti

Gigliotti tried to get Red Line Racing lubricants, Chambers family and LG Motorsports Pro Long Tube Headers into a response about Louis trying to keep his dad calm.
All the words came out ... the order seemed a little jumbled ...



Lou ... you know we luvya!

Did Lou get wound up or somthing? Why did Louis have to keep him calm? Maybe I'm not reading between the lines today but did Lou get mad about something?

It was late in the race, 1st and 2nd place were stretching out a bit, a Caddy was hounding Lou pretty good ...

That was definantly some great racing! It is a different driver winning in every race t seems. Good to see Lou on the podium as he has had bad luck all year so far especially getting bunted outa 3rd by the Porsche on Sat.

Why do I STILL watch F1?

Derek

How about Pobst going a little crazy and a little TOO far outside of T2 and running the Audi off into the tires. In the interview he said it was his screw up. He is a great driver as most of the drivers in GT.

Hell 2 cars on the podium from independants, you can't beat that!

I wish they did a double header at Sebring!

Derek

I watched the interview also. there was no mention of keeping calm, just "How is it having your son Louis on the radio with you"?

I said,"Louis is the Man" and I meant it. He never has to keep me calm, but the announcers like to add "Drama" to the race. They like to make me out to be the tough guy. When in reality I am a casper milktoast

In their mind one would have to be a wild man to pull off 3 passes on three of the best drivers in the world, (well 2 anyway, skip the porsche). But if any of you have a copy of the Trans Am race at Mosport in 2001, you would have seen the same outside pass on Simo by Gigliotti in that race.

Louis did comment to me on the radio that the "Officials" are always finding a way to give me a penalty and I should keep it so clean that they would not have any excuse.

If you remember, at Portland, they black flagged me for "Rolling" or jumping the start. But at Mosport in the second race the Porsche clearly rolled or jumped the start, and my crew had to bitch like heck to make them enforce the same rule that they pulled me in for.

None the less, in the interview I mentioned all who needed to be mentioned with the exception of StopTech brakes. If you will remember the out braking passes at 160mph at the end of the straight on the Audi and Cadillac, and the Porsche in the same corner. The stop tech prototype 6 piston brakes are as good as any I have ever used and I forgot to mention them. That was the only mistake that i could see that I made in that interview. Plus I stumbled a little when I called the car,"My Lg Pro Long Tube Corvette".

I guess the driving was overshadowed by the interview. Let me know when you get interviewed and I will critique it for you.

But you had to like the racing right? Think of who is racing in the top ten. Fellows,and Pilgrim(lemans Factory drivers) Tommy Archer (1 time champ and Lemans driver), Galati(5 time champ), Pobst, (1 time champ) Angelelli, (Italian formula 3000 champ factory LMP driver), Leighton Reece, (Multiple race winner in many series), Lou Gigliotti ( 3 time champ) , Lou who?? And whoever has the balls to come race against this group.


How hard do you think it is to run against this group of drivers with cars prepared by Factory teams with almost no limit on their budgets. Well at Motorsports ranch we run in the 14's with the car before the season started. We would have to be in the 13's to be where we are now. At mosport we were less than 2 seconds slower than the trans am times from 2001. That is how fast you would have to be.

What do you think goes through the mind of a new driver coming into this series? They would have to think they are Michael Shumacher to challenge this group. This is truly a fast and furious bunch of racers. But if a new driver was too timid to come mix it up then they could never BE Schumacher. Part of being a great driver is to first "Think you are a great driver". Then you would have to either be very rich or give up everything that normal people have. We have worked 16+ hours a day for 7 days a week since janruary. That is 8 months 7 days a week which is 3968 hours per man or it means that we put in 99 forty hour weeks in 8 months, or 1.9 years of work in 8 months. That is what it takes.

Let me say that again. 1.9 years of work in 8 months for a small team to compete with the Factory teams. And it is more than just work, It is skilled focused work. It is work that takes the car to a higher level rather than just busy work. There are plenty of teams that work hard, but they do not have the experience or guidence to make the work produce the intended result.

We could all want the car to be faster, but most don't know how to really make it faster. Just throwing parts at a car won't make it faster. And LGM does it without Factory engineers. just seat of the pants refinment of the Corvette to make it better.

Tune in one week from Sunday for the next installment of the Speed World Challenge race from Elkhart Lake Wi. Or watch on line scoring this Friday and Sat afternoon to see how the interview is going.

Mitch, I still love you too

Lou Gigliotti

Lou, don't take my jab @ your interview literally. i could tell you were very glad to get a podium finish (long over due). i know how hard you guys work, cause i've been there and seen what it takes first hand. i really wish i was closer (1.5 hrs away) cause i would be there just about everyday.

anyways, congrats on a good weekend of racing.

....yeah Lou...give up the NASCRAP career goals....you'ld never pass the first interview...where you are tested for the ability to make 5 sponsor names into a sentence using only the words:

"a"
"the"
<insert car brand here>

Lou, ANYTIME you have a seat open.......GIVE ME A CALL.

If it means outdriving Shumacher to get me out from behind a desk and behind the stick, I'll do it.

I'm glad and you know it's all in fun.

I can't fathom getting out a race car after the 2 performances you had and then getting interviewed.

I'm the interviewer ... not the interviewee.
You are 100% correct ... reporters are looking for drama ... either real or made up ... they will have drama!

Its sad, but thats what draws the crowds.

OK, I've been reading this board in stealth mode since almost the beginning, so I figured it was time to register.

More than once, I've thought about how high up in the points Lou G would be if the damn factory sponsored cars were in a separate class!

I know racing needs some sponsorship, but it also kills some mighty good racing series sometimes...