On Saturday March 23rd, the third round of the 2024 Columbia Gorge Championship for the Porsche 962s was held at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway in Vancouver. Fourteen racers showed up but only thirteen made the starting grid. Mitch lost a motor during practice becoming the first of multiple DNFs for the day.
The format for this race is 4 rounds of 4 minute heats. The race started close to the scheduled time of 10:00am. At the drop of the flag John started setting a very fast pace with laps in the 4.8 to 4.7 second range. By the halfway point John had established a pretty good lead over Bob, Kirk, and Zack. After a lunch break, the worms started turning.....
This is a long gruelling race! Problems started showing up for some racers late in the third round and continuing into the fourth round. Motors were giving up and chassis were being damaged. Both the leader John, and Rob were DNFs before the end of the fourth and final round. While some experienced poor luck and equipment failures, others were posting some great results! New racers Beau, Kaelah, and Scott all had very good runs! Mark and tim also ran well! The results between those five were very close, especially when you consider the length of this race!
In the end, racers had over an hour of controller in hand, power on, racing time. The top four had completed over 700 laps! It was great to see Zack make it back out to race with us! A big thank you goes out to Mitch for sticking around to turn marshal even after his car gave up and failed to make the starting grid! Thanks to all that made it out to race, I had a great time!
Here are the results:
DNFs included Mitch, Rob, and John.
