60 plus Racing Adventures GT3 Endurance at Sonoma

 An historic day at the Sonoma Race Track as the Four Stooges Race Team sponsored a 4 hour Endurance race for members of the 60 plus Racing Adventures League.  At this inaugural event we had a total entry of 7 teams.  New to team racing a couple of teams had difficulty in getting their drivers entered leaving the race to start with 5 complete two man teams.  

Congratulations to R&R Racing with Russ Addie and Randy Shewmake for their win with an average lap time of 1:34.175 after 152 laps in 4 hours.  Second place was Allied Force Racing and third went to European Racing Motors.

Two teams were entered by the Four Stooges with Team Depends taking 4th place and Team Black in 5th.

We look forward to future events that may include different cars, tracks and race distance with the team racing format.  

GT Endurance VRS Series - 2022 Season 2

Races Saturdays 9 and 19 GMT and Sundays 17 GMT

Week 1 (2022-03-19) Sebring International Raceway - International (2022-03-19 19:35 GMT 1x) 

Week 2 (2022-03-26) Circuit Zolder - Grand Prix (2022-03-26 12:00 1x) 

Week 3 (2022-04-02) Daytona International Speedway - Road Course (2022-04-02 08:50 1x) 

Week 4 (2022-04-09) Nürburgring Combined - Gesamtstrecke 24h (2022-04-09 21:30 1x) 

Week 5 (2022-04-16) Barber Motorsports Park - Full Course (2022-04- 16 12:00 1x) 

Week 6 (2022-04-23) Road America - Full Course (2022-04-23 06:00 1x)

Week 7 (2022-04-30) Winton Motor Raceway - National Circuit (2022- 04-30 12:00 1x)

Week 8 (2022-05-07) Oulton Park Circuit - International (2022-05-07 13:40 1x)

Week 9 (2022-05-14) Brands Hatch Circuit - Grand Prix (2022-05-14 13:15 1x)

Week 10 (2022-05-21) Autódromo José Carlos Pace - Grand Prix (2022-05-21 12:15 1x)

Week 11 (2022-05-28) Virginia International Raceway - Full Course (2022-05-28 07:50 1x)

Week 12 (2022-06-04) Donington Park Racing Circuit - Grand Prix (2022-06-04 07:20 1x)

The last VRS GT3 Endurance race of the season found us at Imola with 54 teams in the 3rd of three splits.  Jerry started the race and soon found the wall resulting in over 9 minutes of repair time and putting the team in 45th place.  Steady laps and smooth driving from Wally soon found the team in 30th with over half the race remaining.  From there it was just staying focused and keeping the car on the blacktop.  This resulted in a final finish of 25th place.  Driver data below:

This was the final race of the season.  Overall there were 2714 teams that made starts throughout the 12 weeks.  The Depends team finished in 298th place and the Black team was close at hand in 303rd.  Overall a very good showing for our first full season of endurance racing.  

A big THANK YOU to all that participated on the team this season.  I hope you all feel as pleased as I do for our performance's.

Here's looking for success in 2022 Season 2.

VRS GT3 Endurance Race at Autodromo Nazionale Monza - Grand Prix

 

Fans filled the stands at the famous Autodromo Nazionale Monza to watch 51 teams take the green flag for the VRS GT3 Endurance race today.  Starting from the back, the Four Stooges Race teams made steady progress toward the front.  Team Black with Wally and JC finished in 13th place in spite of suffering 19 incidents on track.  The Depends team of Bob and Jerry placed 14th with 12 on track incidents.  Bob lead the Depends team with only 4 incidents and Wally survived with a team leading single incident.  Jerry's fastest lap of 1:52:549 took team honors for this race. Other than the single team 11th place finish at Canadian Tire Park, this is the best combined team finish for the Four Stooges.

Next is the last race of the season at Imola. 

VRS GT3 Endurance Race at Watkins Glen International - Boot

Todays race turned out to be an interesting event.  An entry list of 58 teams started our day off with a bang for Team Black as JC's internet gave him some problems right at the start.  Incidents followed and put Team Black in the pits a couple of times for repairs.  Meanwhile Team Depends motored on to a 23rd place finish when Robert Love took over driving from Jerry Kerr.  Robert worked his way up to 17th position and was then hit and spun resulting in extensive repair times that took them back to 37th position.  

Team Black came back from their repairs and finished a respectful 27th.  Team Depends 3rd registered driver did not participate and this resulted in the team being disqualified.  

All and all the driver performances exceeded some of our past races as Team Depends had 9 incidents and Team Black had 21.  On to the next race!!

Here we have the season rankings of the teams.

Mount Panorama Circuit - Bathurst 12 hour

 Once again the 4 Stooges Team completed a GT3 endurance race.  This time it was the 12 hours of Bathurst at the Mount Panorama Circuit.  The team, anchored by Karl "Mr Bodoe" Bogle and Wally Maulsby included Doug "The Beas" Beasley, JC Hay, Wendell Lowe and Jerry Kerr.  

After 12 hours, 241 laps the team finished in 17th place out of a starting grid of 48 teams in the Number 9 Split.  JC and Doug got the team started with the first four hours of racing.  On this tight and unforgiving circuit with a full field of cars these are the most treacherous laps of the race.  Dodging a spinning car is almost impossible and caught the team a couple of times causing severe damage to the car.

Following the repair time the team motored on with Karl completing 55 laps with ZERO incidents.  He was followed by Wally with 48 ZERO incident laps.  Congratulations to both of them for their stellar performances.  

VRS GT3 Endurance Series - Detroit Grand Prix at Belle Isle

 Well - what can you say about todays 3 hour endurance race at Detroit.  As expected the tight course gave us plenty of headaches as walls were to close and competitors seemed to come out of no where to push or shove you out of their way.  When I get to the video of the race you will see what I mean.  Team Black persevered to a 29th place finish and Team Depends came home 37th out of the original 57 entries.  On to the 12 hours of Bathurst at Mount Panorama.

Team Standings - Series to date