With our fourth scheduled event in the books, we again lucked out with great weather. Rain all around the day we were to run, and we once again stayed dry. It is fun and challenging to run in the rain, but it is also nice to stay warm, dry, and clean. Dry was the word for the day.

With a track designed to place two cars on at a time, we could shuffle through the 32 contestants rather quickly to get in everyone’s six timed runs and some fun runs in at the end of the day to boot. The course was fast and tricky, with some elements like a 10-cone slalom, a high-speed turn around a grate, and the world’s largest Chicago box. The course was new and challenging, and I think everyone had a great time.

We had some new drivers show up this time: the track-prepped 944 turbo of Brad Bradford came out and woke everyone up. Cam Abernethy continues to improve with his ’04 Turbo Cab, coming in 9th overall and cracking the top ten. Jim Condon had some upgrades done to the Cayman S, and his times continue to improve as well. Jeffrey Elmore ran strong again and was one of the three Porsches that head the top four spots this time around. I was able to get a new transmission back into the 914 after blowing up the last one at RPM. The 914 was strong after a few adjustments, and finished second in class and overall. The driver that could not be beat on this day was Engelbert Muelhaupt with his beautiful green 1971 911, which is built to the hilt. Engelbert’s six timed runs were all faster than the best the rest of us could run, and he finished 1.5 seconds ahead of second place. It doesn’t sound like much, but consider that second place through fifth place were only separated by 0.4 seconds. This course yet again yielded a one minute or so time for the hot shoes, so you can see how close it really was. Congratulations Engelbert for having such a great day, and like they say at the Bonneville Salt flats, back it up with another great performance, you have one more shot with us this year.