Hour-Three
Report from MMP
TOOELE, Utah, Sept.
2 - With six hours left in the nine-hour
Discount
Tire SunChaser Rolex Series season finale
at Miller Motorsports Park, Oriol
Servia is behind the wheel of the Feeds
the Need/Doran Racing DORAN JE4 No. 77
and
it's in 14th place overall. It's
one lap down, but the car just recently
stopped for Michel Jourdain Jr. to get
out and Servia to get in, so perhaps it
can
get that lap back soon as others make their
pit stops too.
The drivers have been
trying to improve the car's handling by
making
adjustments in the cockpit, and both Harrison
Brix, who started the race, and
Jourdain say things are going pretty well.
Jourdain had a little
incident with the No. 09 Daytona Prototype
right
before he got out, but the Kodak EasyShare/Amp'd
Mobile/SIRIUS machine doesn't
seem any worse for wear.
Harrison Brix: "We haven't
had any problems so far. Randy Ruhlman
or
somebody in the Derhaag car broke in front
of me, but I missed him.
"We're fighting for
grip now, but the car is running really
well.
"The track is slippery;
it's dirty and really nasty."
Michele Jourdain Jr.: "I
had an incident with the No. 09; he didn't
see
me and we had contact. It happed
in Turn Five, Black Rock Hairpin, but our
car
is OK."
No. 78:
Right now Oliver Kuttner
is in the Doran Racing DORAN JE4 Pontiac
No. 78.
It's currently in 20th place, four
laps down, sandwiched between David
Empringham in the Vonage No. 89 and Robin
Liddell's GT-class-leading Porsche on the
scoreboard.
Tony Ave started that
car and then turned it over to James Gue.
Tony
Ave: "I didn't
have any incidents to speak of during my
stint. The
No. 17 GT car ran into the side of me,
but it didn't hurt us. It just bent
the wheel a little but we're OK.
"The track is starting
to get dirty. You really can't go
off line;
there's a lot of rubber and trash off line."
James
Gue: "I didn't
have any issues during my stint. We're
just
plugging away. The car is running
fine.
"I think I've only seen
three people go off; it's surprising how
clean it
is right now." |