CoTA-official thread

[DaveZ]

If you're not finding the info on SCCA's site, and you have a smartphone, get Race Monitor from your app store, and spend the $3-$4 for the upgrade, which will give results from prior sessions as well as enabling watching a current session. Find the CoTA US Majors event on the opening page.

Even though SCCA said they weren't timiing P1 yesterday, it was still on there, all groups. Everything from today and tomorrow should be on there as well.

[JakeL]

Typing on the phone, so I'll be brief. The track is just epically good. It's like a mix of Miller, Road Atlanta, and Road America. Runoffs should be here.

Good grip on Thurs practice.

Wide range of setups seem to be successful too. JDR and Citation fast looking more trimmed. Astra making what looks like tons of grip, but seems a bit slower on the straights. Most guys in the mid 140's.

Rain yesterday making things interesting, we'll see! FA and CSR slowed us up a lot in the wet.

More later,

J

[openwheeler37]

Is there any site that has video feed? Live or not i'd like to watch some of the races while i'm working on my car.

[Mike B]

Is there any site that has video feed? Live or not i'd like to watch some of the races while i'm working on my car.

No video, just audio: http://www.sccahost.com/sccalive/

[Richard Dziak]

COTA .....Sat 3-09-2013......Unofficial results of Qualifying....info from Tweeter feeds.

P1-Loshak, P2-Osbourne, P3-Ott, P4-Cooper, P5-Pancea, P6-Gerardo, P7-Latham, P8-Burkett, P9-LaBrie, P10-Mayer,P11-Michael, P12-Franklin, P13-Rice, P14-Biner, P15-Ortiz, P16-Pierce, P17-Scarallo, P18-Autiello, P19-Costin

Chris Ash?

Not sure if 19 or 20 cars due to unknown about Chris Ash.

Race via live audio....

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/scca-super-tour

[Mike B]

Lawrence Loshak (JDR) just nipped JR Osborne (Citation) on the last lap of Q1 to take the pole for race 1 of the US Formula 1000 Championship at Circuit of the Americas.
Loshak and Osborne are the only F1000 drivers to break into the single digits, with Loshak turning a 2:09.493 and Osborne right behind him with a 2:09.756.
The second row is Steve Ott (Astra) with a 2:10.093 and Glenn Cooper (Firman) with a 2:11.803.
The rest of the grid:
5 Lucean Pancea (Stohr) 2:12.740
6 Jose Gerardo (Stohr) 2:12.853
7 Jake Latham (Stohr) 2:13.814
8 David Burkett (Firman)2:13.904
9 John LaBrie (Phoenix) 2:14.978
10 Alex Mayer (Elan) 2:16.528
11 James Michael (Stohr) 2:16.865
12 Richard Franklin (Stohr) 2:17.594
13 Rod Rice (Stohr) 2:17.698
14 Terry Biner (Firman)2:19.120
15 Nicholas Ortiz (Firman)2:21.187
16 Tim Pierce (Firman) 2:21.582
17 Jonathan Scarallo (Philly)
18 Anthony Autiello (Stohr)
19 Denis Costin (Stohr)

[R. Pare]

Anybody have a list of who is in what car make?

[Mike B]

Anybody have a list of who is in what car make?

I edited my last post to add car make.

[Mike Devins]

first 5 spots with 5 different manufacturers - very nice!

[Lincspeed]

From Facebook, Loshak is on the FB pole with a 2:09' JR in second. All the rest are over 2:10

[Wren]

The schedule is starting to fall apart. They keep having to shorten sessions and we are way behind. If they really have to close the track at 5 then they are not going to get the races done. Groups 5-7 are getting screwed.

[Steve Bamford]

The schedule is very ambitious with all these cars. Need to speed up the time between groups finishing & the next one starting but with the amount of cars there is lots of clean up.

Wren is just upset that he has to walk so far from his paddock

[Wren]

So. Far.

[Tiago Santos]

Listening to the race.. Seems like a clusterfarce..

[Richard Dziak]

Looks like 4 laps of racing only......

FB Official...

1) Osborne
2) Loshak
3) Cooper

Can't wait to hear the feedback from the drivers on this one.

[Purple Frog]

Looks like they had to end it early because of the 5pm curfew. Two run groups left unraced....

Start-yellow-checker.

Loshak, Cooper, Gerado in FB

Jason wins first ever FA at CotA.

[Mike Devins]

SYC really?

[Mike Devins]

they just called 5 minutes on gp 6

[Mike Devins]

so why did they call the race so early!

[Richard Dziak]

Race NOT called due to 5 PM Curfew...Group 6 now racing.

Live feed from SCCA @......https://twitter.com/sccalive

Live Audio direct from COTA......http://www.ustream.tv/channel/scca-super-tour

[Richard Dziak]

FA, FB, CSR, DSR Race Group #5 Highlights......

Lap 4 - Full course caution. Saftey car ready to deploy.

Lap 4 - Pace car is waiting to pick up Byers (FA) the overall group leader.

Lap 5 - Byers (FA) has been picked up by the pace car with about 17 minutes left.

Lap 5 - Working to sort out the field behind the pace car.

Lap 6 - Entire field has been bunched up behind the pace car. Chaos breaks out on the front straight. Cars a speeding up then braking.

Checkered flag flies - Byers (FA) takes overall victory

Osborne, Loshak and Cooper take FB in that order. Alexander wins CSR followed by Fleck and Devenport

[iamuwere]

Sounds interesting.

[Casey Haddock]

From the time stamps on the twitter feed it looks like group five got 10 minutes of green flag racing. 18 minutes from green to checker.

[Chris Elwell]

From SCCA's facebook page,

Attention racers at COTA this weekend: Because of time limits/darkness, the schedule for Sunday has been revised. Group 7 will race at 8 a.m., followed immediately by Group 1, 2, and 3. Groups 4, 5, 6 and 7 will race after lunch. Grids will be set by the fast times in race 1, there will be no qualifying sessions.

[Wren]

It was three laps of green flag racing. I'm still not sure of the results are official.

My understanding is that the incidents on track could not be cleaned up in time, so they checkered it. Unfortunate but reasonable. They ran us under double yellow to half distance/time.

[JakeL]

Uploading the video as I type, will post a YouTube link when it is complete.

FB start was pretty darn orderly, actually. From what I could see, JRO might have gotten in a bit hot, and Steve Ott came out of T1 in the lead. JR and Coop on the outside grass/astroturf, and came together slightly.

Lawrence mentioned that he and Steve may have had some light contact, which may have resulted in what sidelined the Astra at the exit of Turn 11.

JRO and Lawrence pretty much checked out.

From my seat, got a good start, and picked up a few positions into T2. Found myself behind Alex Mayer down to 2, who got an, uh, "improbably good" start and passed several cars around the outside leading up to the hill. Managed to get by Alex, and we had a drag race down to T12.

Similar story the next lap, as I followed David Burkett, and managed to get by him as well. He was able to repass me on the straight down to T12, but I managed to get in front again under braking.

As aside, COTA races really well

Jose was very fast in his ex-JRO Stohr - not sure I'd have been able to catch him, as he was looking very quick. I could see Coop up ahead as well, but his laptimes show 2:10's, which neither Jose nor I could touch. I also saw Lucian lurking in my mirrors as he got up to speed.

The real mess was the response to the yellow flags. Several of the backmarkers that we'd already passed somehow didn't see the double yellows, and were continually passing cars under the double yellows. One Silver DSR passed at least 5 of us before noticing what was going on - very strange. I'll admit I had a slightly hard time seeing the double yellows behind the chain link fence, so I was slightly confused myself for a little bit.

Ultimately, all of us in FB seemed well-behaved though, so good for us.

Results as you saw, JRO, Lawrence, and Coop, with a Stohr 4-5-6 somewhat behind.

As folks have mentioned, we grid by fast laps from today, which will be JRO, Lawrence, Coop, Jake, Jose, and I think Lucian after that.

Going to have my hands very full no question trying to deal with Jose, he's gotten up to speed in JRO's car very quickly! Good addition to the class.

Enjoying putting faces to names as well - David Burkett, Richard Franklin, and no doubt some others I'm forgetting at the moment.

Bedtime! Will post the video link shortly.

-Jake

[KevinFirlein]

its a shame that lack of efficiency , for whatever reason, has caused sunday schedule to go pear shaped and thus no one knew they were also qualifying when they were racing.

There isnt anything wrong using fastlaps as Q times when you know in advance, pro series do it all the time, but to spring it after the fact is wrong but in this case I know there isnt anything else that could be done. I do feel nad for the guys who in various races who had a lead and were saving equipment and will now pay the price though. I always drove flat out green to checker just because I loved to drive the car that way but most people dont push it hard if they dont have to.

On a different note big congrats to Lee alexander for winning in CSR with his Dauntless Stohr.

[JakeL]

Video should be good to go:

http://youtu.be/QMP-cnp4Ygo

Enjoy,

Jake

[Dennis Valet]

Nice job avoiding that heavy chop on lap one, could have been an annoying crash if you were even the slightest bit hard headed

[racerdad2]

Thx for the video !

[carnut169]

Wow, looks like fun.

[Lincspeed]

That was great Jake! Thanks for posting so quickly, it gives us at home, a better taste of what that track is like. You show some class drivin' there man, GREAT footwork!
Cheers, and good luck today. Clark

[Thomas Copeland]

JR OSBORNE WINS FAST AND FURIOUS SEASON OPENER AT COTA

Fremont Ca/Green Bay, WI (March 9, 2013) - JR Osborne took a race shorten victory in the season opening East vs. West shootout event at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.

With the weather heavily overcast, dark skies, and the possiblilty of rain imminent the field of 19 Formula 1000 cars took the green flag some 30 seconds after the main field of national runners.

With pole sitter Lawrence Loshak leading in the run up the hill into turn one things turned fast and furious quickly. JR Osborne made a move for the inside line, running wide in the process, forcing Loshak to do the same. This left the door open for Steve Ott to make a run on both of them even further inside with Ott and Loshak making contact. Somewhere in the middle of all this Glenn Cooper and Osborne also managed to touch wheels before the foursome continued on.

After the all the wheel banging was over and with group headed back down the hill from turn one it was Ott in the Astra leading, with Loshak in the JDR a few car lengths behind, Osborne in the Citation, Cooper in the Firman, with the rest of the field following close behind.

Ott's moment at the front would be short-lived however, as he approached turn 11 the right rear rod end on the Astra broke ending his race. As Ott parked it, Loshak and Osborne continued to battle on, swapping the lead three times on lap two alone, with Osborne finally making a pass that stuck going through turn 20. Further back there were other drivers moving up and scraps developing as the pace quicked throughout the field.

It all came to end rather abruptly on lap 4 after a car from the CSR group crashed heavily into the wall at turn 11. After a couple of laps with the entire field of cars circulating behind the pace car the cars were bought into impound and race was called.



2013 US Formula 1000 Championship
Race 1, Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas
Premliminary Results:

1. JR Osborne, Greenwood Village, Colorado, Citation
2. Lawrence Loshak, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, JDR
3. Glenn Cooper, Roswell, Georgia, Firman
4. Jose Gerardo, El Paso, Texas, Stohr
5. Jake Latham, Broomfield, Colorado, Stohr
6. Lucian Pancea, Bellevue, Washington, Stohr
7. Alex Mayer, Harleysville, Pennsylvania, Elan
8. David Burkett, Corpus Critie, Texas, Firman
9. Jonathan Scarallo, Hauppauge, New York, Philadelphia
10. John LaBrie, Draper, Utah, Phoenix
11. Richard Franklin, Wilmington, North Carolina, Firman
12. James Micheal, Fort Worth, Texas, Stohr
13. Rod Rice, Vancouver, Washington, BRD Stohr
14. Tim Pierce, Leland, North Carolina, Firman
15. Nicholas Ortiz, Miami, Florida, Firman
16. Anthony Autello, Providence, Rhode Island, Stohr
17. Terry Biner, Sandy, Utah, Firman
18. Denis Costin, Sammamish, Washington, Stohr
19. Steve Ott, Houston, Texas, Astra

[Richard Dziak]

Great video, Jake......

Jose Gerardo (#14 Stohr) is a very aggressive driver, and doing well in his first race events in F1000.

Today should be an interesting day.

[Richard Dziak]

Great news.......

SCCA Live Timing now up and running....

http://www.sccahost.com/sccalive/

In the live timing box....click the small TV screen to get full timing of all entries.
(Upper right hand side of black window)

This will really help for those who want to see specific positions and times.

FB race after the lunch hour......

[Mike B]

Grid for today's race:

1 JR Osborne 2:09.467
2 Lawrence Loshak 2:10.591
3 Glenn Cooper 2:10.948
4 Jake Latham 2:12.730
5 Jose Gerardo 2:12.753
6 Lucean Pancea 2:13.039
7 David Burkett 2:14.127
8 Jonathan Scarallo 2:15.125
9 Alex Mayer 2:15.363
10 John LaBrie 2:16.227
11 James Michael 2:17.718
12 Richard Franklin 2:18.668
13 Rod Rice 2:19.264
14 Nicholas Ortiz 2:19.720
15 Tim Pierce 2:20.357
16 Anthony Autiello 2:20.432
17 Terry Biner 2:20.888
18 Denis Costin 2:22.999
19 Steve Ott no time

[reidhazelton]

Does anyone know how Louis Cooper Jr (FA, not FF) is doing or what happened?

[Steve Bamford]

Accident Friday in practice at turn 11. Was in surgery yesterday for his back. LC3 did not make the race today, hope all is well with his Dad. I haven't heard how surgery went.

[reidhazelton]

Damn. That's what I heard.

Best to Big Lou!

[Thomas Copeland]

UPDATE-

JR Osborne has been protested for passing under the yellow flag. Even though no advantage was gained it appears he will be penalized and dropped back to fourth place.

Official results pending.