Elkhart Lake Vintage
Festival Featuring Lotus
Road America, September 19 -21, 2003
Report and
photos by John Donohoe
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here to read the full story of my weekend at Road America
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!
OA |
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.
OA |
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!
OA |
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 |
- |
- |
1 NR |
DNS |
34 |
4B |
- |
Dick Leehr |
Portsmouth NH |
66 Lotus 41 |
- |
- |
- |
DNS |
33 |
4F |
- |
Dick Leehr |
Portsmouth NH |
68 Lotus 51C |
- |
- |
- |
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!
OA |
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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