Brian Lock places in top 5

Brian Lock of Scotts Valley, CA in the #44 Subydude.com/DMS/Goto: Racing Subaru WRX

One of the maneuvers at a sharp turn on the course caught him by surprise, and he could do nothing more than turn the wheel hard and hang on. The dent on the fender was impressive, but he was in good spirits; I recall he got 4th place. Pretty darn good, considering how tricky all the turns were (I saw numerous crashes from all the races on Saturday, car parts flying off, and they even had to put up a concrete divider, I guess to make drivers slow down before one of the sharper turns.) Concrete walls everywhere, plus an amazing number of twists and hard turns, bumps, and (light)rail tracks make this one of the most challenging courses out there. Awesome fun (for people NOT racing the course ;).

Brian's car - a heavily modded Subaru, fared much better than the Mini Coopers (smaller, higher center of gravity). To illustrate: One of the Mini Coopers had its entire front end smashed, and was hauled back with solemn ceremony to the paddock, along with several other cars. Brian's team showed great support all around.

What a great race.

Thanks for the kind words. We will have our official press release up later today detailing the whole race. We wanted a podium really bad, but a crummy move by a competitor on the standing start had us shuffled back 3 spots. Then a full course yellow came and our whole strategy was shot. Passing was near impossible on this track (as you saw in the champ car race), the brakes of every car had nothing left to late brake anyone for a pass. Our car has the worst power to weight ratio of any car as well so we could not out power them. It was a frustrating race but all in all a great weekend and an amazing experience. Thanks to all who came and cheered on the Suby!

BTW, Infineon is next weekend and it should be a great race. We are looking forward to this track, and maybe even getting a little revenge on the BMW that blocked us on the start :mad: . J/K

See you at Infineon!

I was there as well. Enjoyed watching you take the Suby around the track, well done! :banana:

Here's a couple of shots I took over near turn 6. Not the greatest, but you get the idea.

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