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Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival Featuring Lotus
Road America, September 19 -21, 2003
Report and photos by John Donohoe

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Following are the results of the feature events which took place on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon at Road America. I've edited the results to mainly Lotus cars, but where another type of car was first overall or in class, I included it for reference. Where a Lotus finished first overall or in class, I tried to list the 2nd place car as well, if it was not a Lotus, again for reference. The results posted here were edited from the complete official results listed at http://www.vscda.org If you have digital photos of any of these cars in action that you would be willing to share, I would be happy to include them here with a credit if you'd like.

- Feature Races - Enduro - All Lotus Race -

Race Results Group 2C

2C seems to be the class of the Super Seven, in quantity if not reliability! Terribly sorry but for one reason or another, only one out of four Sevens made the grid. The Seven of Greg Henricks retired in practice having lost its crank pulley. Beautifully rebuilt engine, using the original pulley which simply separated from its hub. A simple enough swap, if only a spare pulley was to be had. As it was, the other Sevens not making the grid all seemed to have updated to a different belt and pulley system. I also watched as another Seven was pushed into its trailer Saturday afternoon, not even to see daylight on race day. As it was, George Balbach did his best to defend the Lotus honor against a passle of Prosche 356's, MGA's, an Elva Mk II and a Cortina GT. Of 17 entries, 9th wasn't all bad considering how the other Sevens fared!

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CP

Class

Car

Driver

Hometown

Car Desc.

Best Lap

Speed

Laps
4 1 2C 134 George Balbach Lake Forest IL 61 Porsche Roadster 2:48.023 85.702 8

32/55

9

2C

86

Rob Zalinger

Gurnee IL

63 Lotus S7

3:11.438

75.220

7
DNS - 2C 27 George Hovsepian Lake Zurich IL 62 Lotus 7 - - -
DNS - 2C 007 Greg Henricks Chicago IL 63 Lotus S7 - - -
DNS - 2C 7 Denny Wilson Washington MO 62 Lotus Super 7  - - -


Race Results Group 3C, 3D, 5A

The Lola T70 took the race y sheer volume if nothing else! I was in the paddock when they fired it up and WOW! But what a lovely machine. The quick and light Lotus 23C of John Weinberger kept within 2 miles an hour of the thundering Lola to secure a second in group for Lotus and a first in class against the Causey Special. Robert Boller took a second in class in his 23B behind a LeGrand, while besting of a couple Elva Mk VII's, and a U2 Mallock.
 

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CP

Class

Car

Driver

Hometown

Car Desc.

Best Lap

Speed

Laps
1 1 5A 2 George Stauffer Blue Mounds WI 69 Lola T70 2:27.253 97.790 8
2 1 3C 76 John Weinberger Hinsdale IL 65 Lotus 23C 2:30.171 95.890 8
8 1 3D 11 Al Nowocinski Huntington Beach CA 65 LeGrand MK4B 2:43.898 87.859 8
10  2 3D 95 Robert Boller Wadsworth IL 63 Lotus 23B 2:43.961 87.825 8
DNS - 3D 25 Justin Segel Milwaukee WI 63 Lotus 23B - - -

 

Race Results Group 4B, 4F, 4J

The single seaters enjoyed one of the bigger run groups, the Lotus cars taking on the likes of Titan, Brabham, Chevron, LeGrand, Alexis, Caldwell, Merlyn, etc. A full range of Lotus cars, 18's, 20, 20/22, 41, 51 and 69's all ran for a respectable outcome of a first in class (25th overall) for Matt Primack in his 18 FJ, a second in class for George Bruggenthies in his 20, with the best overall finish going to Jeff Hailand in his 69 FF, placing 14th out of a group of some 55 starters!

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CP

Class

Car

Driver

Hometown

Car Desc.

Best Lap

Speed

Laps
1 1 4B 05 Mark Harmer Troy MI 68 Brabham BT-21 2:27.238 97.800 8
5 1 4F 17 Kevin Smith Lake Forest IL 72 Titan MK 6B 2:32.338 94.526  8
14 10 4F 24 Jeff Hailand Clayton MO 71 Lotus 69 FF 2:36.774 91.851 8
15 11 4F 6 Steve Grundahl Blue Mounds WI 67 Lotus 51A 2:38.769 90.697 8
16 5 4B 98 Gene Owen Montpelier OH 70 Brabham BT-29 2:36.618 91.943 8
25 1 4J 44 Matt Primack Chicago IL 60 Lotus 18 F. Jr. 2:45.932 86.782 7
31 2 4J 20 George Bruggenthies Plymouth WI 60 Lotus 20  2:53.644 82.928 7
35 3 4J 16 Marvin Primack Wilmette IL 60 Lotus 18 F. Jr. 2:56.654 81.515 7

36

4

4J

49

Ken Alter

Glenview IL

62 Lotus 20/22

2:58.016

80.891

7

37

9

4B

12

Tim Holland

Brighton MI

68 Lotus 41

3:00.414

79.816 

7

41

26

4F

18

Daniel Hayes

Clayton MO

67 Lotus 51C

2:44.156

87.721

6 NR

44

10

4B

22

Jeff Hailand

St. Louis MO

71 Lotus 69 FB

3:16.705

73.206

6

51

28

4F

114

Joe Papp

Douds, IA

68 Lotus 51C FF

2:52.482

83.486

3 NR

52

29

4F

15

Paul Timko

Naperville IL

67 Lotus 51A

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-

1 NR

DNS

34

4B

-

Dick Leehr

Portsmouth NH

66 Lotus 41

-

-

-

DNS

33

4F

-

Dick Leehr

Portsmouth NH

68 Lotus 51C

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Race Results Group 8B2, 8C

Joel Weinberger wrapped up group 8 in his Elan besting Porsche, Morgan, Datsun, Sunbeam Tiger, Alfa, Fiat, MGB, Triumph GT6+, etc. He led the second place Porsche by four seconds after 8 laps. Barb Nevoral was 4th overall in her Super Seven and third in class after Joel's Elan and a Porsche 911. I don't know what happened to my buddy Ross Robbins that he didn't start... I think he later mentioned something about being late to the grid... arrgh! It was Jeff Fisher's brush with the wall in practice Saturday that kept him from going out in his SIV Seven this race... double arrgh!

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CP

Class

Car

Driver

Hometown

Car Desc.

Best Lap

Speed

Laps
1 1 8B2 76 Joel Weinberger Hinsdale IL 70 Lotus Elan 2:41.094 89.388 8
2 2 8B2 10 Lisa Hansen Chicago IL 69 Porsche 911 2:45.036 87.253 8
3 1 8C 09 Charles Glapinski Hartland WI 66 Sunbeam Tiger 2:44.240 87.676 8
4 3 8B2 14 Barb Nevoral Burr Ridge IL 67 Lotus Super 7 2:44.166 87.716 8
20 12 8B2 50 Ron Hornig Littleton CO 65 Lotus Elan 2:49.316 85.048  7
DNS - 8B2 90 Ross Robbins Littleton CO 66 Lotus Elan - - -
DNS - 8B2 47 Norbert Bries Lake Bluff IL 70 Lotus Europa - - -
DNS - 8B2 5 Jeff Fisher Leland MI 72 Lotus 7 Ser 4 - - -

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