CAFÉ RACER 76: 05/10/15

Schatz Wins Two in Eldora ‘Mother’ Sweep

Schatz Wins Two in Eldora Speedway ‘Mother’ Sweep

Second place finisher Gary Taylor scored his best ever Outlaws finish

ROSSBURG, Ohio - May 9, 2015 - Donny Schatz went six years between wins at Eldora Speedway but proved Saturday night that past is not always prologue as he swept the two-day 'Mother of All Sprint Car Weekends' and took home his eighth World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series victory of the season.

"Great race team, they do a phenomenal job every time we get to the track," Schatz said of his Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing team. "Tonight, thank you fans for sticking with us. I didn't know if we were going to get that in. Hats off to everyone who worked their tails off all day."

Rain dominated much of the day and threatened the night's event. By mid-afternoon though the rain clouds gave way and the track prep began. A slightly delayed event got underway with Rico Abreu scoring his second quick time of the season.

Schatz started on the feature pole with his No. 15 Bad Boy Buggies car and held off Jamie Veal in the opening laps. The first of two cautions in the feature came out on lap five. It proved pivotal for Gary Taylor, who started the night in fourth with his Fausey Farms 1ST team.

Taylor battled past Veal to take over the second position and then held tight to Schatz through the next three laps as he tried to make a run at the lead. Schatz eventually pulled away and by lap 11 he had caught the tail end of the field.

By lap 20 he had steadily built up a sizable lead over Taylor and third place Shane Stewart. While Schatz worked his way through traffic Taylor made up some ground.

Then disaster struck for Stewart and nearly for Taylor. With just two laps to go, Stewart and Logan Schuchart had tires go flat. The caution flag flew. As the field came around, Taylor hit something on track.

"I didn't even notice it happened until all of a sudden I heard a clink and I felt something on the floor pan and I thought, 'oh man!'" Taylor said. "Here we are with a great run going and then we come around the next lap and I see the piece of metal sitting there. We just lucked out I didn't get a tire."

Taylor came into the pits for a check. He was able to retake his position.

With Stewart relegated to the back following his tire change, Paul McMahan shifted forward to third in his No. 51 CJB Motorsports car.

On the single file restart, Taylor tried to take advantage but was not able to close the gap on Schatz.

"To not have the wins at Eldora, we love to win at Eldora - to get two here this weekend is awesome," Schatz said. "The track was so good. It could carry so much speed. The times were way down there. I don't remember the last time you could run around that quick at Eldora in the whole feature."

Schatz extended his championship points lead over Stewart to 55 points.

Taylor's second place finish is, to date, his best ever Outlaws performance.

"I've got to thank my car owner and all the people who make it happen," Taylor said. "We're kind of a small team so to come here and run in the hunt with these guys is a really, really good feeling."

With his third place finish, McMahan capped off a good weekend for his team that saw a fourth place finish the night before. McMahan is currently fourth in the championship points standings, 143 points out of the lead.

The World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series returns to action Wednesday night, May 13, at Lincoln Speedway for the Gettysburg Clash as the Outlaws take on the Posse for the first night in the lead up to the Morgan Cup. Great seats remain. Find out more information about the event and how to buy tickets at http://woosprint.com/gettysburg-clash.

Follow the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series on Twitter at www.twitter.com/WorldofOutlaws, like it on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/WorldofOutlaws, or check out the latest videos on YouTube at www.youtube.com/WorldofOutlaws.

Eldora Speedway Notebook

RACE NOTES: With his win Saturday night, Donny Schatz swept the 'Mother of All Sprint Car Weekends'… Donny Schatz now has eight World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series wins this season… After finishing second, Gary Taylor scored his best ever World of Outlaws finish… Rico Abreu got his second quick time of the season Saturday night after a lap of 12.989… Brad Sweet was the KSE Racing Hard Charger, advancing nine positions to finish in 12th.

World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series Championship Standings

Pos	Car	Driver	Total	Diff	Wins	Top 5's	Top 10's	QT
1	15	Donny Schatz	3239	0	8	15	21	1
2	2	Shane Stewart	3184	-55	3	12	17	4
3	49	Brad Sweet	3124	-115	2	10	17	2
4	51	Paul McMahan	3096	-143	2	12	17	4
5	29	Kerry Madsen	3080	-159	0	8	18	4
6	71M	Joey Saldana	3076	-163	0	8	17	2
7	7s	Jason Sides	2996	-243	0	7	12	0
8	9	Daryn Pittman	2980	-259	2	8	15	0
9	7	David Gravel	2903	-336	0	2	10	1
10	11k	Kraig Kinser	2813	-426	0	2	5	1
11	1S	Logan Schuchart	2655	-584	0	1	6	0
12	41	Jason Johnson	2432	-807	0	1	5	0
13	1A	Jacob Allen	2181	-1058	0	0	0	0
14	7	Craig Dollansky	2145	-1094	0	1	4	0
15	24	Rico Abreu	2102	-1137	2	4	7	2
16	7H	Jojo Helberg	1487	-1752	0	0	0	0
17	24	Terry McCarl	1481	-1758	1	3	6	0
18	83	Kyle Hirst	1334	-1905	0	1	3	0
19	0	Bud Kaeding	1179	-2060	0	2	3	0
20	44W	Austen Wheatley	1168	-2071	0	0	0	0

The World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series is brought to fans across the country by many important sponsors and partners, including: Lincoln Welders (Official Welder), Bad Boy Buggies (Official Side-by-Side Vehicle), Hoosier Racing Tire (Official Tire), VP Racing Fuels (Official Racing Fuel); in addition to contingency sponsors, including: Cometic Gasket, Comp Cams, Edelbrock, JE Pistons, KSE Racing Products, Mobil 1, MSD, Penske Racing Shocks, Sweet Manufacturing, and Superflow Dynos; along with manufacturer sponsors, including: ButlerBuilt, Intercomp, Impact Race Products, Racing Electronics, S&S Volvo and TNT Rescue.

Rags To Riches: Saving a ’57 Oval, Then Slamming It

Rags To Riches:<br />Saving a ’57 Oval, Then Slamming It

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The reasons why we choose to build cars are as varied as the makes, models and intended purpose. For some it’s all about extracting the very last drop of performance and testing the the laws of physics, for others it’s the simple satisfaction gained from presenting the fruits of their labour on the static show floor. Regardless of mindset, there’s one aspect of automotive culture that binds us all together: the happiness that cars bring. It’s something we like to call #JoyOfMachine.

For Martijn Groters and his small, close-knit group of friends from Netherlands it always has been, and very likely always will be, about Volkswagens. Together, they’ve been putting their spin on humble commuters from the German manufacturer’s back catalogue ever since they left school, and doing so have created some of the most well-known VW-badged cars in the country under their group banner, VWDepartment.

During that time Martijn has owned his fair share –including a couple of modified water-cooled cars and then a rat-styled and suitably-slammed ’67 Beetle. While the Type 1 provided a first step into the world of air-cooled Volkswagens, he knew it wasn’t the right car to really sink his teeth into. It wasn’t ‘the one’.

T1 panel buses consumed his thoughts for a long while, but given their rarity – and subsequent buy-in price – that idea was eventually put on the back-burner and Martijn went looking for an early oval-windowed Beetle, preferably with a ragtop and within his modest budget.

Ticking off all those boxes was never going to be an easy ask, but Martijn’s patience and perseverance eventually paid off in 2005 when he received a call from his local specialist air-cooled workshop.

There was a car for sale – a restoration project that had only got as far as a partial strip-down. It was a ’57 and therefore the last of the rear oval windowed models, it had a ragtop, and it was parked in a barn in the same spot it had occupied for the last ten years having previously been imported from California in 1990. It was all the encouragement Martijn needed to contact the owner straight away and set up a time to view the car the very next day.

What he found wasn’t that quintessential barn find we all dream of – a totally original, low mileage, one owner car sitting under a thick layer of dust. Instead he came face-to-face with an incomplete Type 1 shell that had been largely ravaged by rot. That might not sound all that appealing, but in an instant Martijn had fallen head over heels for the ‘piece of rust’ and secured the deal.

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Dirt Ride Poland #1

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Normandy Retro Show

En 2015,

au coeur de la ville, au bord de la Seine, nous vous proposons 5 présentations de voitures anciennes et de prestige

ROUEN Espace des Marégraphes Quai Rive droite :

Dimanche 12 avril 2015 (9h30 à 12h30)
Dimanche 10 mai 2015 (9h30 à 12h30)
Dimanche 14 juin 2015 "The English Day" (9h30 à 12h30)

LA BOUILLE Parking du bac

Dimanche 12 juillet 2015 (9h30 à 12h30)

ROUEN Espace des Marégraphes Quai Rive droite :

Dimanche 13 septembre 2015 (9h30 à 12h30)

#Cerutti (Honda) s'impose au Hellas Rally Raid

Classement final Moto + Quad
1 75 CERUTTI Jacopo Honda CRF 450 21:08:57

2 64 CIOTTI Filippo IT M2 1 RR 480 22:34:50
3 41 VERKADE Maikel NL M1 2 FE 450 23:05:31
4 4 RIEZEBOS Jasper NL M1 3 KTM 450 EXC 23:31:53
5 40 PABISKA David CZ M1 4 KTM 450 EXC 23:35:07
6 20 PRAZZOLI Massimo IT M1 5 KTM 350 EXC 23:38:30
7 210 PLECHATY Martin CZ QU 1 EATV 690 24:40:50
8 203 KUBIENA Tomas CZ QU 2 Hawk 690 24:40:17
9 35 PEDEMONTE Angelo IT M1 6 FE 450 24:27:13
10 12 COTTI Michele IT M1 7 Honda CRF 450X 24:38:19
11 36 BERETTA Luigi IT M1 8 KTM 450 EXC 24:51:39
12 17 ENNSMAN Roland A M1 9 Yamaha WR 250F 24:58:41
13 57 BACHLEITNER Wolfgang A M2 2 KTM 500 EXC 24:58:42
14 26 GATTA Paolo IT M1 10 FE 250 25:19:16
15 202 BOSS Frank NL QU 3 Raptor 700 25:08:04
etc...

SSV
1 305 PLNY Rostislav CZ BU 1 RZR 1000 25:25:22
2 301 HEGR - KOHUTOVC CZ BU 2 Maverick 1000X Rs 26:40:00
3 304 RANDYSEK Dusan CZ BU 3 Wildcat Dakar 25:11:53
4 308 ILLEK - HINTERLEITNER AT BU 4 RZR 1000 25:12:07

Rally Lite
1 100 FRAUWALLNER Helly AT L1 1 WR 450F 18:17:49
2 110 RAHMAT Cyrus AT L1 2 KTM 450 EXC 19:21:10
3 112 SCHAFLEITNER Peter AT L1 3 KTM 450 EXC 20:48:25
4 111 RESCH Hannes AT L1 4 KTM 450 EXC 20:49:07
5 114 STOSSIER Philipp AT L1 5 KTM 450 EXC 20:54:11
etc...

plus d'infos http://hellasrally.org/

For how long will these Aston Martins be so inexpensive?

While the majority of Porsches and Ferraris are now traded for exorbitant prices, there are still plenty of Astons that remain within the reach of mere mortals. Several are set to go under the hammer at the Bonhams Aston Martin Works sale this weekend…

It’s well known that the classic car market works outside the parameters of common logic. Hence it continues to throw us curveballs, with some cars seeing values multiply in the space of a few years, while others remain virtually stagnant. You can now pay well over €100,000 for base-model Porsche 911s that were produced in the tens of thousands, but certain contemporaries – some of which were produced in mere hundreds – are still available for a fraction of that price. Of course, there are some models that are highly sought-after and thus command big money (DB4 GTs, early convertible models, and X-Packs spring to mind), although some truly classic Astons with hand-built V8s, an attractive design and, of course, plenty of brand prestige remain surprisingly affordable in relative terms.

This can be illustrated by taking a look at the lotlist of the Bonhams Aston Martin Works sale taking place on 9 May 2015 in Newport Pagnell. One example is the Aston Martin Virage with its 5.3-litre V8, of which only 426 examples were built between 1988 and 1995, available for an estimated £20,000 to £25,000 – a mere fraction of its price when new. Yes, it’s an automatic, but you’d do well to find a same-era 993 Turbo for ten times that price.