Road Atlanta

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Road Atlanta is near Braselton, about 40 miles northeast of Atlanta, just north of I-85. It was a comfortable trip and Doug and Dennis arrived around 10:30 PM. The senior Olthoffs and a number of other members of the Superformance family were on hand. There was time for dinner and a few cold beers before retiring.

The #7 Porsche, the #10 Lamborghini, and the #5 Raptor had recovered from early mistakes and were running well and running consistently. The #2 Mallet Corvette and #17 BMW were close behind.

The choice was to turn up the wick, go for the leaders, and risk a major spin and disaster - or to continue to turn in a solid consistent performance and hope someone else made a mistake. Doug and Dennis decided to stay with the strategy that had worked so well so far - a solid consistent performance without heroics.

 

Time Trial #1

Position

Number

Entrant

Class

Time

Points

1

10

1998 Lamborghini Diablo SSGT1

3:24.536

510

2

2

1998 Mallett - Chev Corvette SSGT1

3:24.663

505

3

5

1997 Mosler Raptor SSGT1

3:26.049

500

4

7

1975 Porsche 911 Carrera Vint For

3:30.640

495

5

17

1995 BMW 318 Ti MidPri Sed

3:31.228

490

6

87

1965 Superformance Mk III Vint Amer

3:33.207

485

7

29

1997 Dodge Viper SSGT1

3:36.107

480

8

15

1993 Mazda RX-7 SSGT1

3:36.623

475

9

3

1994 Mercedes Renntech SL600 SSGT1

3:36.873

470

10

4

1992 BMW 325i MidPri Sed

3:38.212

465

Time Trial #2

Position

Number

Entrant

Class

Time

Points

1

10

1998 Lamborghini Diablo SSGT1

3:22.404

510

2

2

1998 Mallett - Chev Corvette SSGT1

3:23.622

505

3

5

1997 Mosler Raptor SSGT1

3:24.134

500

4

17

1995 BMW 318 Ti MidPri Sed

3:31.820

495

5

3

1994 Mercedes Renntech SL600 SSGT1

3:32.990

490

6

87

1965 Superformance Mk III Vint Amer

3:34.914

485

7

61

1998 Mitsubishi Lancer SSGT2

3:36.224

480

8

4

1992 BMW 325i MidPri Sed

3:38.388

475

9

9

1998 Mallett - Chev Corvette SSGT1

3:38.493

470

10

7

1975 Porsche 911 Carrera Vint For

3:38.570

465

Overall after Atlanta

The #10 Lamborghini continued to be strong. The #2 Mallet Corvette gained 40 points over our team to pull into fourth place overall. The #17 BMW gained 15 to tighten things up in sixth place.

Position After Atlanta

Number

Entrant

Class

Points After Atlanta

1

10

1998 Lamborghini Diablo SSGT1

5940

3

7

1975 Porsche 911 Carrera Vint For

5895

2

5

1997 Mosler Raptor SSGT1

5875

4

2

1998 Mallett - Chev Corvette SSGT1

5855

5

87

1965 Superformance Mk III Vint Amer

5820

6

17

1995 BMW 318 Ti MidPri Sed

5750

7

3

1994 Mercedes Renntech SL600 SSGT1

5480

8

61

1998 Mitsubishi Lancer SSGT2

5475

9

9

1998 Mallett - Chev Corvette SSGT1

5470

10

14

1993 Mazda RX-7 SSGT1

5390

The contest would be decided at Waterford with the first six cars being within 190 points. A serious mistake, a change in circumstances, could decide the outcome. And, as it turned out, it would.

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