Historic Sportscar Racing | Motorsports Photography by Clark McInnis

The #18 Porsche Cayman of Randal Cassling and Christian Coggins started the race in 19th out of 22 cars and was in the lead by lap 10. They led 14 laps, but dropped to 9th place on the 24th lap, giving the lead to Frank Beck, who ran the whole race in either 1st or 2nd place. Beck went on to win the race overall. Cassling and Coggins finished 10th.


Frank Beck ’72 Porsche 914/6 Winner overall and in GT5.	B. DeFoor, D. Hinton, S. Pheil ’73 BMW CSL 3.0 2nd overall, winner in GT2.


Angus Rogers ’73 Porsche 911 RSR 3rd overall, winner in GT3.

Historic Enduro and GTP/WSC/DP Enduro

Bill Adam and Andy Wallace dominated the Historic and GTP/WSC/DP Enduro, leading every lap.

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Bill Adam and crew getting ready to turn the car over to Andy Wallace.

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Theo Bean (#64) and Travis Engen (#2) traded places a few times for 2nd place. Bean finished 2nd.


Bill Adam, Andy Wallace ’05 Audi R8 Winner overall and in W1.	Theo Bean ’90 Intrepid GTP 2nd overall, winner in P1.


Travis Engen ’05 Audi R8 3rd overall, 2nd in W1.

International – American Challenge

The International – American Challenge pits international sports and GT cars over 1500cc against American muscle cars built through 1973.

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There wasn’t a change in the top 4 positions throughout the International – American Challenge race on Sunday. The entry of Edward/Alan Sevadjian led every lap, but was disqualified for aggressive driving. (The results list both names. Don’t know who was driving.) Possibly for blocking maneuvers on the back straight? So Dennis Olthoff inherited the win as a result of Sevadjian’s DQ.

Top 3 American


Dennis Olthoff ’66 GT40 MKII Winner overall and in 3A7T.	James Cullen ’69 Ford GT40 4th overall, winner in 3A6T.


John Farr ’67 Mustang 5th overall, Winner in FIA3.

Top 3 International


B. DeFoor, D. Hinton, S. Pheil ’73 BMW CSL 3.0 2nd overall, winner in 3Q.	Robert Summerour ’72 BMW CSL 3rd overall, 2nd in 3Q.


Donald Norby ’62 Jaguar XKE 6th overall, winner in V9.

Group 2, 3 – Vintage Production; Historic Production

Vintage Production: Early 50’s production sports cars through 1954; 50’s era sports racing cars through 1959; and certain mid 60’s and early 70’s small-bore production sports cars from 1960-1974.

Historic Production: 50’s era sports racing cars through 1959 and over 2 liters plus Austin-Healey 1000; production sports cars over 4.5 liters through 1959 and Corvette through 1962; certain 1960-1966 production sports cars and certain 1967-1974 2 and 2.5 liter production sports cars.

In Feature Race #1 on Saturday, Doug Campbell, Brian Johnson, and Jeff McKain ran 1-2-3 the entire race. 2010-09-19 13.49.28_02

In Feature Race #2 on Sunday, Campbell and Johnson had another good battle. Johnson led 2 laps, but Campbell won again by a margin of 1.45 seconds.


Doug Campbell ’64 Ginetta 4 Winner overall on Saturday and Sunday.	Brian Johnson ’70 Royale RP 4 2nd overall on Saturday and Sunday.


Jeff McKain ’66 Mustang 3rd overall on Saturday.	Donald Norby ’62 Jaquar XKE 3rd overall on Sunday.

Group 4 – B.O.S.S. Series

Big-bore open-wheel formula racing cars, including F5000, Indy Cars, F1, Indy Lights and F3000.

With only 3 cars in the race on Saturday and 4 cars on Sunday, these were basically exhibition laps. Not much of a race. But it’s still great to see these cars lapping Road Atlanta.


Phil Stratford ’94 Tyrrell 022 Winner overall on Saturday and Sunday.	Travis Engen ’01 Lola T97/20 2nd overall on Saturday and Sunday.


Tom Fraelich ’79 March Super Vee 3rd overall on Saturday and Sunday.

Group 5, 7A – Classic GT; S2

Classic GT: Production sports cars over 5 liters through 1959 and certain big-bore 1960-1974 production sports cars and muscle cars.

2010-09-18 13.58.45 The Edward/Alan Sevadjian entrant won both Feature Races of the weekend. The race on Saturday was the closest finish of the weekend with Sevadjian beating Dennis Olthoff by .487s.


Edward/Alan Sevadjian ’69 Corvette Winner overall on Saturday and Sunday.	Dennis Olthoff ’66 GT40 MKII 2nd overall on Saturday. 5th overall on Sunday.


Michael Attaway ’99 Panoz Esperente 3rd overall on Saturday. 4th overall on Sunday.	Frank Beck ’72 Porsche 914/6 4th overall on Saturday. 2nd overall on Sunday.


Ward Witkowski ’88 Lola T88/90 S2 6th overall on Saturday. 3rd overall on Sunday.

Group 5C – Cayman Interseries

Napleton Porsche and HSR teamed up to develop the Cayman Interseries which consists of the 2009 and 2010 Cayman S. Champions will be crowned in sprint and endurance formats. One cool feature of the series is that all the cars have a replica livery of a past historic racing Porsche. This is the first official season of the series.

The Cayman Interseries ran three Feature Races this weekend. Feature Race #1 was the last session on Friday. Lee Davis was the winner, Jonathan Ryan was 2nd, and David Hansson was 3rd.

Feature Race #2 was a part of the Historic GT/Championship of Makes race on Saturday. David Hansson won this race, Jonathan Ryan was runner-up again, and Lee Davis finished 3rd.

Feature Race #3 was on Sunday. Jonathan Ryan, after finishing 2nd in the previous 2 races of the weekend, finally pulled off a win. David Hansson was 2010-09-19 08.10.56 joined by Patrick Long in this race, and the Group 6 Feature Races, to help shake down the #37 2010 Porsche GT3 Cup car for Grand Am competition.

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David Hansson ’09 Porsche Cayman 3rd in Cayman Series on Friday. 16th overall, winner in Cayman Series on Saturday.	Jonathan Ryan ’09 Porsche Cayman 2nd in Cayman Series on Friday. 17th overall, 2nd in Cayman Series on Saturday. Winner overall on Sunday.


Lee Davis ’10 Porsche Cayman S Winner in Cayman Series on Friday. 18th overall, 3rd in Cayman Series on Saturday. 4th in Cayman Series on Sunday.	Jim Bacus ’09 Porsche Cayman 6th in Cayman Series on Friday. 22nd overall, 5th in Cayman Series on Saturday. Jim Bacus, Jack Baldwin entry 2nd in Cayman Series on Sunday.


Will Conniff ’09 Porsche Cayman S 8th in Cayman Series on Friday. 24th overall, 7th in Cayman Series on Saturday. 3rd in Cayman Series on Sunday.

Group 6 – Historic GTP; WSC; DP

IMSA GTP and GTP Light plus European Group C cars from the 80’s and early 90’s and cars from IMSA’s World Sports Car Championship of the late 90’s.

Andy Wallace led every lap of both Feature Races for this group.


Andy Wallace ’05 Audi R8 Winner overall on Saturday and Sunday.	Theo Bean ’90 Intrepid GTP 2nd overall on Saturday and Sunday.


Travis Engen ’05 Audi R8 3rd overall on Saturday and Sunday.

Group 8 – Historic Stock Cars

Winston Cup and Busch cars from 1980-2006.

Pictured below is the entire field for Feature Race #2 on Sunday.

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Larry Hoopaugh passes Donald Soenen for the lead in Feature #2.

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Jack Finch passes Maurice Hull for 3rd place.

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Donald Soenen ’98 Taurus Winner overall on Saturday. 2nd overall on Sunday.	Jack Finch ’06 Charger 2nd overall on Saturday. 3rd overall on Sunday.


Maurice Hull ’06 Charger 3rd overall on Saturday. 4th overall on Sunday.	Larry Hoopaugh ’04 Monte Carlo 4th overall on Saturday. Winner overall on Sunday.

Group 9, 7B – Historic GT; Championship of Makes

Historic GT: IMSA GTO, GTU, and GTX from 1975-1984 and Trans-Am cars through 1992.

Championship of Makes: Sports racing cars from 1960-1974 including cars with displacements from 2 to 6.5 liters that competed in various series such as SCCA’s Can-Am.


Richard Howe ’89 Mustang Trans-Am GTO Winner overall on Saturday and Sunday.	Phil Lasco ’99 Mustang Trans-Am 2nd overall on Saturday.


Donald Soenen ’95 Mustang Trans-Am 3rd overall on Saturday & Sunday.	Gene Felton ’76 Chevy Nova 5th overall on Saturday. 2nd overall on Sunday.

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The Mitty 2010 at Road Atlanta

Posted in Historic Sportscar Racing, Race Reports, tagged Historic Sportscar Racing, HSR, Motorsports, Racing, Road Atlanta on July 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »

April 30 – May 2, 2010

2010 Mitty Image Gallery

Historic Sportscar Racing’s The Classic Motorsports Mitty at Road Atlanta was a great weekend for the car and motorsports enthusiast, whether you were a competitor or a spectator. There was a lot of great racing on the track, car corrals and exhibits in the infield and paddock, track touring, test rides, vendor area, and parties each night.

Peter Brock was the Grand Marshal and Guest of Honor. Brock Racing 2010-04-30 12.23.16 Enterprises brought Datsun into racing in the SCCA Production class. Brock is known for his design work on the Corvette Sting Ray and he designed the Cobra Daytona Coupe.

Lotus was this year’s “Featured Marque”. There were plenty of Lotus cars 2010-04-30 10.44.30 on the track, and Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum brought several Lotus cars for display in vendor row.

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Klub Sport Porsche Challenge

The first race of the weekend was the Klub Sport Porsche Challenge, which consisted of 2 liter and 2.5 liter Porsche 911’s, 914’s and 356’s. Eric Bretzel won overall in his ‘72 Porsche 911.

Classic Motorsports Cup (Small Bore Enduro)

The Classic Motorsports Cup is a four race series limited to production sports cars built before 1970 with engines no more than 3 liters. The first race was held at Roebling Road in April, The Mitty was the second race, and the next 2 races will be at Mid-Ohio in June and Savannah in October.


Charles Guest ’67 MG Sprite Midget Winner overall, winner in 3M.	Dennis Gonzalez ’66 Austin Healey Sprite 2nd overall, winner in 2K.


Warren Aplin ’62 Triumph TR4 3rd overall, winner in 2H.

Vintage Enduro

Brian Johnson’s co-driver led most of the Vintage Enduro, but a late pit stop dropped them to 4th or 5th. Brian charged back and made a last lap pass to 2010-05-01 13.51.40 take 2nd place. Yes, that’s Brian Johnson, the lead singer for AC/DC.

Unfortunately the HSR results only list one driver’s name for the endurance races. The co-driver is not listed. So for the endurance races I only list one driver. If anyone knows the 2nd driver of any of these cars, please let us know by posting a comment below.


John Harrold ’68 Chevron B8 Winner overall, winner in V9.	Brian Johnson ’70 Royale RP 4 2nd overall, winner in V6.


Jerry Loftin ’65 Ford Mustang 3rd overall, 2nd in V9.

SCCA Pro Racing Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup

Atlanta’s Mathew Pombo took pole position with a record lap of 1:40.220. 2010-05-01 15.04.59 Pombo led the race until lap 10, when Lyonel Kent took the lead coming from his 3rd place starting position. Pombo regained the lead on lap 13, but lost it again on lap 14. From that lap on, the lead changed multiple times between Pombo and Kent, but Kent never officially relinquished the lead. There were only 3 official lead changes at the line.

2010-05-01 14.52.03_02 Meanwhile, Brad Rampelberg moved from his eighth place starting position to third on lap 20. On the last lap at Turn 7, Pombo moved to the inside of Kent, and Rampelberg took advantage and got by Pombo for 2nd. Kent held off Rampelberg on the last corner for the win.


Lyonel Kent 1st Place	Brad Rampelberg 2nd Place


Mathew Pombo 3rd Place	L to R: Mathew Pombo, Lyonel Kent, Brad Rampelberg

Classic GT Enduro


Richard Duffey ’85 Swift DB-2 Winner overall, winner in H7.	Eric Bretzel ’72 Porsche 911 2nd overall, winner in GT3.


Asa Chandler ’87 Swift S2 3rd overall, 2nd in H7.

Formula 5000 Feature Race

The Formula 5000 V8 engines sounded great on the track. For more information about Formula 5000 go to www.f5000registry.com. The Formula 5000 cars had their own feature race on Sunday and also competed in the Group 4 – B.O.S.S. Series race on Saturday.

Tony Adamowicz drove the ‘69 Gurney Eagle Mark 5 in which he 2010-05-02 12.45.17 won the 1969 Formula 5000 Championship. The car was retired in 1969 and has since been in storage. The car made its 2nd debut at this year’s Mitty on Tony’s 69th birthday. Tony finished 5th overall and 2nd in class in the Formula 5000 Feature race. He finished 16th overall and 2nd in class in the Group 4 B.O.S.S. Series race on Saturday.


Jim Stengel ’73 McRae GM-1 Winner overall, winner in F8.	Dudley Cunningham ’73 Lola T332 2nd overall, 2nd in F8.


Steve Davis ’69 Gurney Eagle MK5 3rd overall, winner in F7.