We started our May 31st GT Race with a 21 car grid between six different classes. GT2 had the largest car count giving us six of our 21 drivers. Our GT1, and GT5 classes had five drivers each, making up just under half of our grid. Both GT3, and GT4 had two drivers in their respective class. In qualifying the North track record in GT1 was broken by Tadas Karlinskas setting GT1’s benchmark with a blistering 59.816.
Our 18 lap race went green with everyone having a clean start. Throughout the race drivers battled for position regardless of class. The race went incident free with clean racing and navigation getting around lapped cars from the slower classes. In the end however, our top six starters finished where they started, as in GT1 Tadas Karlinskas held off Mark Boden for overall and GT1 victory, with Tom Herb rounding out GT1’s podium. Troy Monthye finished fifth overall, taking home victory in GT2, as Charles Margosian managed to beat David Calzada by just over three tenths of a second for seventh overall, and second in GT2, with Calzada settling for third in class, eighth overall. Our lone GTU of Tony Diar-Bakerli gained six positions to round out the overall top 10, right ahead of GT4’s battle for class victory, with Valdas Gaurylius finishing just over a second ahead of Scott Benning Sr. While GT3’s Bob Noorian dropped three places overall from his 10th place starting position, so too did GT3 competitor Thomas Prokop from his 17th place starting position, giving Bob Noorian GT3 victory. Josh Dale managed to hold onto GT5 victory by finishing 15th overall, just under 10 seconds ahead of GT5’s second place finisher Mike Keck, with Andrew Talandzevius rounding out GT5’s podium, finishing 17th overall.
