Laguna Seca!

[John Cassidy]

So, camping out in the parking lot at Laguna Seca Sports Car
Championships last weekend, I was delightfully surprised to see a brace
of Audi street cars doing VIP parade laps.  Beautiful cars and lucky
bastiges driving them!!  Was that some sort of club deal?  We had to
steal a golf cart in the middle of the night to get on the course!  BTW,
the governor on a golf cart is not sufficient to keep speeds sane enough
to negotiate the Rainey turn in a sensible manner, at least in a cart.
Probably ought to have a little more air in the tires for that!  After
all, Patron was a big sponsor of the event...

 

Congrats to Werner and Luhr on the overall race win and championship!
What was really interesting was how fast the P2 Acuras were.  The Tony
Kanaan/Montagny car was always inches behind if not ahead right to the
very end, with the Porsche Spyders soldiering on third.  The closeness
of the Acuras made me wonder if the R10s were sandbagging a little bit.
They never had much trouble overtaking for the lead, but didn't pull out
any gap either, after 4.5 hours (with 12 cautions).  Finally, it is
amazing just how quiet those diesels really are!