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Steve Schaefer's Hot Lap of PR

This month we are featuring a hot lap around Pacific Raceway starring Steve Schaeffer and his gorgeous 1965 GTA. The video was shot by Mark Powell (www.boxstar.net). If you are having trouble viewing the movie make sure you have the latest Quicktime plugin for your browser. This is a largish file so it does take a little bit of time to fully download. It's worth the wait.

This video was taken July 6, 2003 at the 4th of July Historics at Pacific Raceway. This was the Sunday 20 minute race. I got in with a pack of four other Porsche 911's. I was lucky enough to be ahead of the car (mostly) who was taking in-car video. This is one lap during the race. He taped the entire race, and it is available via CD.

July 6th, 2003 Pacific Raceway - Historic Races

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These are all 1991cc Porsches, against my 1600 GTA. The 911's have more torque than me coming out of the turns, but once my motor is past 6000rpm or so, I can usually keep up or pass them. It depends largely on our exit speed of the previous corner. We were probably reaching around 124mph down the straight, I was indicating 7400rpm in 5th.

The red 911 has more power than us all, but either had serious car handling issues, or needs more driving lessons. He was slowing us all up. These 911's all slowed up considerably for Turn 5A, that's where the Alfas shine.
It was a great race, all of us raced cleanly and challenged ourselves, and made a great racing display for the crowd.

-Steve Schaeffer