You saw the SPOILER alert in the subject line, consider yourself warned... -------------------- The Grand-Am Brickyard Sports Car Challenge was held today on the F1 road racing circuit on the IMS (Indianapolis Motor Speedway). The last half of the race was run mostly under yellow and red flags, including a yellow+white flag finish. Sounds like a dull ending but there's great news anyway! RSR MINI #198 driven by Chris Puskar and Randy Smalley finished 3rd in ST! If you haven't been following along, that's a historic result. Why? Grand-Am has never raced at Indy, until today. So, Team Owner Randy Smalley has the distinction of going down in history as having taken a spot on the first-ever Grand-Am podium at Indy in a MINI! FWIW, 1st and 2nd in ST were both 328i BMWs Other RSRs: 6th, #196, Farmer/Hart, Honda Civic SI 16th, #197, Fergus/Trinkler, Honda Civic SI Looks like the #195 MINI (Congleton/Riegel) didn't start; classified 35th in a 36 car field.
Woo hoo! I almost went to the race, it's only 3 hours west. Tickets were inexpensive at 30 bucks. However I played with code for the site to darn late and ended up sleeping in. Probably a good thing as it rained quite a bit. I'd also have been chasing the storms home too. Watching the radar they are headed right for Columbus on I-70E. Would not of enjoyed that drive.
I was going to say "Nah, the rain moved out after the Conti race so you could have hung around to watch the Rolex race." But now it's raining on that race too...
Way to go RSR! I watched some of that Rolex race, rain, sun, rain, sun damn sure did not look like a lot of fun in all that water with those slicks.
Great news! Glad the long in the tooth MINI racer still has the stuff. Thanks for giving us something to smile about RSR! You guys are great!!!
Certainly a far better read that the race results news release on the Grand Am Continental Tire Series website. I've started to become used to the short shift they tend to give to ST, but to not even give a single mention of the podium finish by Puskar and Smalley? That's just plain wrong. :frown2: