{"id":369329,"date":"2011-04-20T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=34604"},"modified":"2024-01-16T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T12:24:07","slug":"csrg-infineon-raceway-season-opener-2011-three-to-get-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/csrg-infineon-raceway-season-opener-2011-three-to-get-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"CSRG Infineon Season Opener 2011 – Three to Get Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Left to right: Pete Thelander, Carl Moore, John Goodman. William Edgar (2) & Graham Blake Photos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Story by William Edgar, Photography by William Edgar and Graham Blake as noted
\nTo begin, I was driving through the Sonoma Valley early Friday morning on April Fools\u2019 Day\u2014I\u2019m not kidding\u2014to spend the next three mornings and afternoons doing what so many of us love to do, which is to attend a vintage racing weekend at one of America\u2019s best road course raceways. The surrounding hills were green from recent downpours, hawks were high on the wing, and vineyards were coming back to leaf once again. What really could be better? Well, maybe the sight of cars on track and the song they make, up through the gears, around the corners, flying along the straights in chase of something that defies description.
\nAs a companion story to Dennis Gray\u2019s event report<\/a>, I picked three owner\/drivers with dissimilar cars and stuck with them all through the California Sports Racing Group (CSRG) season opener, April 1-2-3, at Infineon Raceway, the 2.52-mile, 12-turn challengingly technical road course in northern California\u2019s Sonoma County where the local Zin, Cab and Pinot wines are inspiring, and racing equally so. My idea was to see what these three gentlemen do in getting themselves and their cars ready and into another year full of vintage racing. Here\u2019s how it went.<\/p>\n

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Pete and Fran Thelander with their 1934 MG NE Magnette. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oldest first, in both man and machine years, was Pete Thelander and his 1934 MG NE Magnette, brought back this year to the track sporting a fresh 1316cc engine rebuild with 58mm pop-up pistons replacing the old flat-tops to increase horsepower from its previous 55-hp to a much improved 75-hp. So this early spring race date would be a serious shakedown for Pete and his newly fitted power.
\nOriginally MG factory-built and suited in Italian red\u2014not traditional BRG\u2014for Tazio Nuvolari, the car was to be in The Great One\u2019s hands for the 1934 Ulster Tourist Trophy, but a last minute sponsorship pickle botched the deal and substitute Bill Everitt drove the 56-hp, 1086cc, 6-cylinder MG, doing quite well with the task until a rear wheel broke. With Nuvolari out, and Everitt\u2019s DNF, the factory\u2019s earlier hope for international glory with the car was lost.
\n\u201cThe car then knocked around England until after the war,\u201d Pete told me. In 1955 it came to America and wound up with legendary NorCal MG distributor Kjell Qvale. Pete later acquired the nomadic MG NE in 1972, restored it, and gave it a permanent home. He\u2019s now been racing and showing it for the past 20 years. Generally speaking, Pete Thelander is a happy chappy\u2014but for my picture here he wore his race face.<\/p>\n

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Pete Thelander gets very serious when a track session is about to start. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We\u2019ll come back to Pete later as the 3-day CSRG weekend mounts. Meanwhile, I hooked up with long acquaintance Carl Moore and his 1963 Lotus 23B Twin-Cam. Carl, who\u2019s been vintage racing for 31 years, owns and drives much larger cars than his yellow Lotus, meaning big mean stuff like a Can-Am McLaren and Birdcage Maserati. Both of those cars are entered in early June\u2019s Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival that will also take place at Infineon Raceway. Nonetheless, Pete is sweet on his little Lotus, and it\u2019s a very cool track tool.<\/p>\n

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Carl Moore at the wheel of his 1963 Lotus 23B Twin-Cam. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis Twin-Cam has been around northern California for 25 years\u201d Carl said to me Friday morning at the track garage where he was prepping the car. \u201cI did a lot of work on suspension. It was set up by someone who was probably a former Go-Kart racer, and it was called a \u2018flat slider\u2019. It would turn quickly, but break loose quickly, also. I didn\u2019t like that at all.\u201d So Carl made some suspension setting tweaks, calming the Lotus down a bit to behave more to his liking.<\/p>\n

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Carl Moore in the Infineon garage where he prepped his Lotus 23B for the CSRG Opener. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt has 180 horsepower with plenty of get-up-and-go,\u201d Carl said, \u201cbut it\u2019s still running on relatively small tires\u2014so it\u2019s fun to drive, stops well, slides well, and doesn\u2019t get too excited if you overcook something. It will wriggle and jiggle but for the most part it\u2019s catchable.\u201d This opening CSRG meet could sort out a handling hiccup he\u2019s been having. \u201cThe front end setting is loosey-goosey on me,\u201d Carl told me right after Friday\u2019s first practice, \u201cso we\u2019ll get the people who know what they are doing to put the nose back down again and get a little bit more bite out of it.\u201d
\nI asked Carl, who\u2019s 70 this year, \u201cWith two full days ahead of you here, what are you learning today?\u201d He smiled, then answered, \u201cThat I\u2019m not as young as I used to be!\u201d We both laughed, knowing that with fun comes the effort to have it, and that more age means more effort. \u201cWe\u2019ll come back out this afternoon,\u201d Carl said, heading off to lunch. \u201cWe\u2019ll see if we can get the car settled down more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Race shop owner John Anderson (left) discussed Lotus 23B suspension settings with Carl Moore. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carl was supposed to have a second car to drive here this weekend\u2014his 1976 March 76B. \u201cI put a piston outside the block at the last race last year,\u201d he\u2019d told me of the March, \u201cso we had a whole new motor built. But then in tests it was making some \u2018inappropriate noises\u2019 and the engine builder took it down and found some things that were not right, and he\u2019s now making it right.\u201d As we all know, there\u2019s a big advantage in owning more than one race car, especially with the vagaries of vintage racing.
\nOur third driver-and-car subject at this CSRG opener came in from Seattle, where he owns and nurtures a large stable of cars. John Goodman brought two of his hot ones here in the immense J&L Fabricating transporter out of Louie Shefchik\u2019s race cars and restoration shop in Puyallup, Washington. John\u2019s blue 1958 Devin SS, along with his red 1972 Sparling-Ferrari Special (Wayne Sparling had a hand in it some years ago) based on the Scuderia\u2019s championship 312 PB cars, make a striking duo of dynamite vintage muscle.<\/p>\n

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John Goodman’s 1958 Devin and 1972 Ferrari, with Mike Collins working on the Devin. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was bowled over back in the day at first sight of a Devin SS. Lance Reventlow had just brought out his sculpted Scarab sports car, and Carroll Shelby\u2019s burly Cobra had not yet made the scene, so in 1958 the SS fit quite nicely between those two styling and racing icons. The car was the brainchild of Oklahoma-born Bill Devin who married an Irish-built tube chassis with a Detroit Corvette engine and California fiberglass body. They were stunners, those Devins, then and now. John Goodman digs his for it\u2019s small block brawn and beauty of contours.<\/p>\n

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John Goodman of Seattle-based Goodman Racing, in the Infineon paddock. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cockpit and dash of John Goodman’s 1958 Corvette-powered Devin SS. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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John Goodman wheeled his Devin SS out of the paddock to go on-track, after mechanic Mike Collins (left) and crew chief Walter Gerber worked on the car. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Going back into the car\u2019s past, Bill Devin at its inception named Art Evans his sole Devin distributor and, with that in mind, I asked my old friend and fellow historian about it. \u201cI sold all of them,\u201d Art said of the way too-few Devins built. \u201cThis one [John Goodman\u2019s] originally went to a doctor in Orange County in 1958, then later spent a few years in a farmer\u2019s barn before I bought it.\u201d Bobby Unser had driven this same car in a pro race at Tacoma in the late 1980s, and Evans raced it as well, along with its other drivers of note being Andy Porterfield, Pete Woods and Jay Chamberlain. Evans eventually sold the car to vintage racer Tom Hollfelder, from whom John bought it about three years ago.<\/p>\n

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John Goodman’s Devin was once owned and raced by Art Evans and also raced by Bobby Unser. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John\u2019s other car at the CSRG Opener was the Ferrari he\u2019s owned for about ten years and is familiar to all in our vintage racing world as a stunning on-track attraction. The 3-liter SOHC V12 breathes through mechanical pump Lucas slide throttle injection, stops on disc brakes\u2014regular front, inboard rear\u2014and delivers 400 bhp and 350 lb.-ft. spun through a Hewland 5-speed gearbox to rear 15×14-inch BBS wheels shod with Goodyear slicks. The total red package weighs 2,025 pounds and carries with it period racing history at Le Mans, Daytona and Sebring.<\/p>\n

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The tight center cockpit of John Goodman’s Sparling-Ferrari Special. Graham Blake Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The 3-liter 400-hp V12 that powers John Goodman’s Sparling-Ferrari Special. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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John Goodman in his Ferrari on the grid at Infineon Raceway. William Edgar Photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe Ferrari,\u201d says 7-year Goodman Racing mechanic Mike Collins,\u201d is probably John\u2019s favorite car. He\u2019ll make about a dozen races this year, all in the U.S, and he\u2019ll run two or three cars per race weekend\u2014sometimes four cars.\u201d
\nDuring a barbequed ribs and killer mac-\u2018n\u2019-cheese lunch with salad side provided under the transporter awning by J&L, I asked John what his \u201cother cars\u201d might be. Well, there\u2019s four Corvettes, a \u201964 Cobra, a 512 BBLM and a 308 Ferrari GTB, this one here, plus a Ferrari 312 Formula 1 car. I might have missed a few. I know I did.
\n\u201cThis is a good warm-up event for the other races coming this year,\u201d said John, who really lights the scene wherever it may be. He\u2019s totally energized, like his race cars. \u201cThis is a good track,\u201d he went on, as all listened. \u201cGood people! Good food! And now that Louie has the food down pat I just come here to eat!\u201d And to drive, to drive.<\/p>\n

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CSRG President Jon Norman (with mic) and Race Director Tom Franges (clipboard) conducted the drivers’ meeting. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday done, and a threat of rain Saturday morning dismissed as one more weatherman miscalculation, CSRG President Jon Norman, a very quick racer in his historic Alfa Romeo GTV, and CSRG\u2019s race director Tom Franges, a former Formula 3 Cooper pilot, called the 44th season opener\u2019s mandatory drivers\u2019 meeting outside the track\u2019s registration and media building. This was the first really big vintage racing event of the year in northern California and one that also featured MG cars coming in from all over the county. [Dennis Gray has more on that.]<\/a>
\nWhen I sat down to chat with Franges in Registration, Tom told me, \u201cThe drivers are getting back into the groove here, and some are starting fresh, and,\u201d he added with a laugh, \u201cwe work very hard at manipulating the weather.\u201d Tom raced his Cooper for 13 years before the doctor told him it was time to stop, but he stayed involved in vintage racing and speaks of the CSRG philosophy.<\/p>\n

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CSRG Race Director Tom Franges in the Registration room at Infineon Raceway. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really about the people and people talking about the cars,\u201d Franges said. \u201cWhat happens out on the track is relatively unimportant because we\u2019re racing against ourselves for the most part. Where you finish is not going to change your career path anymore. Penske and Ganassi are not going to call.\u201d The official CSRG Philosophy is written on its website [csrgracing.org<\/a>] and it makes good sense. Basically, it\u2019s race and have fun but don\u2019t do it to win at all costs.<\/p>\n

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John Goodman took to the track at Infineon Raceway in his Devin SS. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mike Collins made repairs to John Goodman’s Devin after an oil-on-track mishap. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nice job of matching duct tape to paint, with compliments to Goodman Racing\u2019s crew. What happened was\u2014during Saturday morning practice, John was nose-to-tail behind a Lotus, about to get around, when all of a sudden \u2026
\n\u201cIt was Lotus oil,\u201d said John, after hearing through others that it either came from the Lotus\u2019 drain plug or that its engine let loose. \u201cI went through the oil and my tires started going sideways and the rest is history,\u201d John said to us at one of the J&L paddock tables. \u201cBut I almost saved it! The car\u2019s still in great shape.\u201d No serious damage then? \u201cI don\u2019t call duct tape \u2018damage\u2019,\u201d he said with a chuckle, looking over at his cosmetically blemished Devin.
\nMeanwhile, Pete Thelander and Carl Moore worked their ways through their own racing groups\u2019 Saturday practice sessions on track.<\/p>\n

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Pete Thelander in his 1934 MG NE Magnette was ready on on the grid at Infineon Raceway. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Carl Moore was off and away in his 1963 Lotus 23B Twin Cam at Infineon Raceway. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While Carl was on track in his Lotus 23B, I de-briefed Pete on what he was finding out about his MG NE, after missing a bunch of races last year because of a health issue. Pete was glad to get back into it here at Infineon, feeling fine again, even though the early April Saturday afternoon had turned summer-hot. \u201cThe car minds its P\u2019s and Q\u2019s and doesn\u2019t give me much trouble,\u201d Pete said, while cooling off in his paddock tent\u2019s shade. I looked at his Magnette\u2019s old drum brakes and novel pre-selective gear box and felt time slip away to the 1930s with its big bands and war clouds, the decade into which he and I were born.<\/p>\n

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Pete Thelander’s 1934 MG NE, one of only seven built, pushes a lot of air once it gets going. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I asked, \u201cHow are those brakes, Pete? They good for stopping?\u201d He grinned and said, \u201cYou don\u2019t brake this thing very hard. You know, because it\u2019s so \u2018aerodynamic\u2019! Right? You get off the throttle and it almost stops!\u201d
\n\u201cReverse aerodynamics!\u201d I said, mocking the MG\u2019s locomotive-like front end. Yes!\u201d said Pete, \u201cBut it\u2019s fun. I don\u2019t do too many races and it doesn\u2019t need a lot of maintenance. People appreciate seeing it,\u201d he said, \u201cand I bring it out for their benefit as much as for my own.\u201d
\nOn the other hand, in qualifying for tomorrow\u2019s race, Pete was not that pleased. His lap-time transponder hadn\u2019t worked, and he would have to start\u2014who knows where?
\nSome thirty years after Pete\u2019s tall, blunt-nosed NE was in its prime, along came Carl\u2019s sleek track-hugging Lotus. Colin Chapman\u2019s race cars in those early 1960s were making huge strides in design and performance, and the 23B with strengthened chassis and Lotus-Ford 1594cc 4-cylinder twin-cam was a racing star.<\/p>\n

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The source of power in Carl Moore’s 1600cc 4-cylinder Lotus 23B is this Lotus-Ford Twin Cam. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With a prototype \u201cB\u201d engine fitted in Jimmy Clark\u2019s Lotus 23 at the N\u00fcrburgring 1000km in 1962, the result, if too brief, was sensational, as Clark led the bigger Ferraris, Aston-Martins and Porsches in a show of superior development. That reputation has survived to live on in Carl\u2019s yellow #29. He qualified second here behind younger pole-sitter Harindra de Silva\u2019s more powerful, particularly torquey Nerus BMW\/M10-powered Elva #196.<\/p>\n

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A pair of Weber side-draft carbs feed Carl Moore’s 180-hp Lotus 23B Twin Cam engine, William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As seemingly good as it was going for Pete and Carl, a few problems were surfacing in John\u2019s Goodman Racing Devin and Ferrari entries.
\nFirst, John\u2019s Devin was having issues. The oil catch tank was proving to be not large enough, and engine oil was being picked up in blow-by. A larger tank easily solved that one. But the threat of another woe lingered. Oil pressure was not holding as it should for ideal engine performance. As with so many disquieting situations in racing, particularly with these older cars, this was coming down to one of \u201clet\u2019s try it and see\u201d.<\/p>\n

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An oil issue with John Goodman’s Devin SS in the process of being solved. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Devin’s oil problem repaired, oil on the hot engine surface went away in smoke while Mike Collins and Walter Gerber watched. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While Mike Collins ministered the Devin\u2019s throttle, Goodman crew chief Walter Gerber watched over the engine bay until all the loose oil on the 500-hp 327 Chevy toasted away and the motor smoked no more. The Devin SS was deemed good to go for John in Sunday afternoon\u2019s \u201cGroup C\u201d race, a category in CSRG terminology \u201crepresentative of the larger engine displacement sports and GT cars as raced in the U.S. under the racing rules of 1967 and earlier.\u201d With Corvette power alive beneath his Devin\u2019s hood, the competition for John to beat would be frequent winner Terry Gough\u2019s 1965 Corvette roadster # 75. I\u2019ve ridden Infineon\u2019s road course as passenger with Gough to witness the meaning of g-force and what that bad white Vette of his does.
\nLooking again at the red V12, the first indication of trouble with John\u2019s Ferrari was back a while, during Friday\u2019s afternoon practice. Somewhere, for some reason, a problem made itself known in the car\u2019s water plumbing.<\/p>\n

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Walter Gerber (left) and Mike Collins attended to driver John Goodman and his Ferrari. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mike Collins (left) and Walter Gerber looked for the water leak in John Goodman’s Ferrari. William Edgar photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Out of the car, John Goodman watched his crew add water to pinpoint the Ferrari’s leak. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Returned to the paddock, Mike Collins found that a stuck water valve had prompted the leak. The Ferrari\u2019s cooling system had been recently augmented with a water heater device more commonly seen in F1 cars that allowed hot water to run through the engine on start-up. But when the valve failed, no water passed, causing a boil-over while still on the race grid. In little time the malfunctioning gizmo was removed, and the car was ready again for a later Friday afternoon practice where the Ferrari ran fine again for John.
\nAs Collins later explained, cold starts can be damaging to these older aluminum block engines and the \u201chot box\u201d water trick was feasibly a way to go. In this case, however, it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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Mike Collins repaired the Ferrari’s water leak by removing a failed cold-start heater valve. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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John Goodman’s Ferrari was repaired and ready again for the track, while Mike Collins still kept an eye on it. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John, following a good track session with his Ferrari on Friday afternoon, did well enough in Saturday\u2019s qualifying run. He was set to start mid-pack for Sunday\u2019s \u201cGroup F\u201d race \u201crepresentative of the earlier \u2018Wings and Slicks\u2019 sports racers and Open Wheel cars raced in the U.S.\u201d With slicks, stick, and horses, it was bound to be wild. But before that, we turn to MG NE Magnette power again, and Pete Thelander.<\/p>\n

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The 1271cc 6-cylinder engine in Pete Thelander’s 1934 MG NE is lovely to look at and has 75 bhp. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve finally after fifteen years got an engine that\u2019s up to NE spec,\u201d Pete told me, \u201cand I\u2019ve now got all the seventy-five horses that I should have. I\u2019ve been running short for all these years! I actually got hold of an original NE block that says \u2018NE\u2019 on it. The first engine I rebuilt for when I restored it lost oil pressure, then I put back in the little short-stroke \u2018K\u2019 engine and maybe I was getting fifty horses out of it. Sometimes I had to go down to second gear to get up the hill here to Turn 2. But that\u2019s no more. I get up it in fourth gear, then downshift to make the corner. It\u2019s almost like learning to drive the car all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pete Thelander is at home with his MG NE and pre-selective gearbox he calls ‘an early Hydramatic without any brains.’ William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pete Thelander and his 1934 boat-tailed MG NE were ready for the go at Infineon Raceway. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pete Thelander’s MG NE, with its fresh horsepower boost, climbed the hill to Turn 2 in fourth gear. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After Pete\u2019s Sunday races, not one but two, in his MG\u2014he drove Group A and, an hour and a half later, again competed in the big-field all-MG go at the end of the day\u2014he was bone-tired, but stoked. \u201cThat was a workout!\u201d he said, toweling his face. \u201cWe had good runs and pretty well stayed out of the leaders\u2019 ways. My car is incredibly quicker than it used to be. I\u2019m still amazed by it.\u201d So\u2014Pete Thelander arrived, tested and tried what he brought, and learned what he has to work with for the rest of the season.
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\nCarl Moore and his Lotus 23B were ready for Sunday\u2019s \u201cGroup D\u201d race, \u201crepresentative of the sports racing and open wheel cars as raced in the U.S. in the 1960s and early 1970s.\u201d His suspension was the way he wanted it, and the car was behaving like a really top-form Lotus should.<\/p>\n

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Ready for his race, Carl More felt that the suspension settings on his Lotus 23B were spot-on. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Carl Moore in his Lotus 23B, ready to go to Infineon’s start grid for his Sunday race. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carl went to the race grid\u2019s second spot with his Lotus facing a lot of competition to overcome on track. In particular, he was sandwiched on the grid between pole-sitter Harin de Silva in the closed wheel Elva-BMW and third qualifier, another younger guy, Danny Baker in an equally quick open-wheel Lotus 27 Junior.
\n\u201cWe had a good day yesterday,\u201d Carl told me an hour before his Sunday race, \u201cand we did some suspension tuning, which helps a lot. We got the car settled down. In practice this morning everything was working good, but we have a little bit of a grumpy third to fourth shift, a grumpy gear. You don\u2019t like them, because it makes you think about the grumpy gear when you are making that shift\u2014which you shouldn\u2019t have to do. You want to pay attention. And you have to slow it down just a little bit for that third to fourth shift. It\u2019s not a big deal, but you don\u2019t want to have to be thinking about it when you\u2019re going this fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Head of the grid for Carl Moore’s race, with pole-sitter Harin de Silva in #196 Elva-BMW and Danny Baker in the green Lotus 27. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I asked Carl about the other guys up front for the start\u2014Baker and de Silva. \u201cWe are within a hundredth of a second of Danny, and he\u2019s a very good driver. And Harin drives the Elva well. He\u2019s young and fast and brave, and there\u2019s a few places that I can still catch up to him, and I\u2019m not telling him where. That Elva\u2019s a fast car with a lot of juice. He has 50 or 60 more horsepower than I do. Michael Malone drives his Elva well, too. He\u2019s predictable and safe and fun. But the young kids, like Harin and Danny\u2014darn them anyway. Us older guys feel like the seniors tour in golf. The young kids coming along are quick and talented. This is good sorting out time now for the coming races.\u201d
\nAnd the track, in Carl\u2019s estimate? \u201cThis is one of the toughest tracks to drive,\u201d he said. \u201cMy car is stored here, and we do testing here. It\u2019s technical to drive. I raced back in the \u201860s with a Lotus Seven for a while, but, when I quite, this track was just starting to be built. This is a great track, and I take advantage of the home course knowledge, so they say.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Carl Moore in his Lotus 23B during the Group D race at CSRG’s Opener, going strong. Graham Blake Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Harin de Silva’s Elva-BMW (left) leads Carl Moore’s Lotus 23B in the way they would finish Sunday’s race. Graham Blake Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carl took second place to winner Harin de Silva. Understandably, our Lotus 23B driver was a bit upset with his finish, thinking earlier that he could pull off a win over the Elva, even with de Silva\u2019s Nerus BMW power being more than his own less-strong Lotus-Ford. But Carl will be back, and there will more times in 2011 when he and Harin will face off in these same feisty race cars from the \u201860s.<\/p>\n

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John Goodman ready for his Sunday Group F race, as crew chief Walter Gerber attended to the Ferrari. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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John Goodman’s red Ferrari among the competition, moments before the Group F race. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once again in a list of many meets over the past decade, John took his red car to the race grid, ready for the go this time with CSRG\u2019s \u201cGroup F\u201d that includes Brabham, Lola, Chevron, March, Leda and his own Ferrari, a mix of machines with engine displacement ranging from 1600cc to 5000cc. It had all the earmarks of a main event.<\/p>\n

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John Goodman’s V12 Ferrari howled properly during his Group F race. Graham Blake Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stunning to watch, John Goodman’s Ferrari had no further problems and finished the race well. Graham Blake Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John did well with his Ferrari\u2019s mid-pack finish in Sunday race that led to the afternoon break in the CSRG\u2019s seven race groups. Then, just a little over an hour later, it was time for John\u2019s second and last race of the day\u2014taking the Devin to do battle in the \u201cGroup C\u201d bunch that included Terry Gough\u2019s pre-race favorite Corvette.<\/p>\n

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Goodman Racing mechanic Mike Collins was busy getting John’s one-eyed Devin SS ready for the Group C race. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The 327 cid V8 Corvette engine in John Goodman’s Devin SS with its 4-barrel Holley makes 500 bhp. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John\u2019s Devin SS, as far as Mike Collins and Walter Gerber could speculate, was going to be OK for the Sunday \u201cGroup C\u201d race. The SS\u2019s oil issue had been addressed, the engine was sound and strong, and on went new Avon rubber fitted to the car\u2019s Minilite aluminum wheels, a departure from the Devin\u2019s original spokes and switch some purist find inappropriate.<\/p>\n

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Before his Group C race, new Avon rubber went on John Goodman’s Devin SS. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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On the race start grid, John Goodman hoped that all would stay well with his Devin SS. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A classic sight from late 1950s racing, John Goodman’s Devin SS was loud and fast as the Group C race got underway. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Clocking John Goodman’s Devin, crew chief Walter Gerber saw lap time drop as low oil pressure finished John’s race. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Devin\u2019s oil specter did not go away, but came back to haunt John during that Sunday race\u2019s early laps. Oil pressure weakened, dropped, and John pulled in and parked the car. I caught up with him and his wife, Shawn, as they were saying good-bye to the crew and already set to head north for hometown Seattle.
\n\u201cWhat happened with the Devin for you to bring it in early?\u201d I asked. \u201cSomething is wrong in the pan,\u201d John said, \u201cand I was just losing too much oil pressure. The larger catch tank worked for the earlier problem, but for some reason now I\u2019m losing pressure. It was just too hard to manage that and also manage the race. So, I would rather save the Devin\u2019s motor for another day.\u201d And the Ferrari? \u201cThe Ferrari was awesome,\u201d said John. \u201cIt felt good! We\u2019ll see you at Wine Country!\u201d
\nOf course, he meant the Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival on June 4-5 this year, where there will be 400 entries compared to the 200 this CSRG Opener had. It\u2019ll be almost summer again and many here this weekend, and many more who weren\u2019t, will return to vintage racing at Sears Point\u2014err, Infineon Raceway. It\u2019s hard to break old habits when it comes to the names of tracks and events. But they continue to be and to grow and to provide fun and entertainment for all.<\/p>\n

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The CSRG Opener weekend and its good times came to a close at the base of Sonoma County hills. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Carl Moore didn’t win with his Lotus 23B, but had a great time with this beauty of a race car. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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All done, John Goodman’s Devin SS V8 and Ferrari V12 gave him what he came for – a great time in vintage racing. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The 2011 CSRG Opener came to a close with memories of excellent times had by all. William Edgar Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To echo Tom Franges and maybe make of it a mantra: \u201cIt\u2019s really about the people and people talking about the cars.\u201d
\nI\u2019ve been going to sports car races since 1951, and must say I had a grand time at Infineon with this \u201cthree to get ready\u201d trio\u2014Pete Thelander, Carl Moore, John Goodman\u2014and thank them and all the others who helped make CSRG\u2019s 2011 Season Opener another winner of a vintage racing weekend.
\nOh, one more thing. I have a footnote to Carl Moore\u2019s \u201cpodium\u201d second in that he was one of two top-3 Lotus finishers within the same racing week. The other was in distant Malaysia where Nick Hiedfeld took his F1 Lotus Renault GP to third spot at Sepang International Circuit. I venture to declare that this double Lotus pop was enough to put a smile on Colin Chapman\u2019s face\u2014wherever he might be.
\n[Source: William Edgar; photo credits: William Edgar and Graham Blake]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Story by William Edgar, Photography by William Edgar and Graham Blake as noted To begin, I was driving through the Sonoma Valley early Friday morning on April Fools\u2019 Day\u2014I\u2019m not kidding\u2014to spend the next three mornings and afternoons doing what so many of us love to do, which is to attend a vintage racing weekend at one of America\u2019s best road course raceways. 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