Thursday, December 20, 2018

Trans Am veteran David Pintaric, in the No. 57 Kryderacing Cadillac CTS-V, won his first TA race in the final at Daytona, Nov 10, 2018. The victory is Pintaric’s first in 55 career TA class starts and gave the Cadillac make its first win in Series history. Except it didn't, as Cadillac parts weren't on the car on the track.


so, there I was, sorta enthused that Cadillac was racing in SCCA, and had their first win. A congrats moment, you know?

But, it turns out, "a funny thing happened on the way to the forum" -  (musical by Sondheim, based on a book co-written by Larry Gelbart - who invented MASH) I learned that they don't race factory made cars in SCCA anymore. Nope. It's all bullshit, it's whatever body they want to work for aero advantage, mounted to the chassis they've improved over time.

As I was saying, I learned a funny thing, on my way to finishing this post, I read:

In his fourth year with the series, instead of the Chevrolet Corvette that Pintaric has driven for every race with Trans Am thus far, he has decided to change to a Cadillac body.

“It’s really cool,” said Pintaric. “It’s not your daddy’s Cadillac, that’s for sure. Kerry Hit, with Advanced Composite Products out of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, built this body, assembled it and put it on the car. We have the same chassis, just a different body, so I don’t think we’re working too many bugs out. I’ve got a lot of affection for the Corvette world, and I haven’t left it behind, but I wanted to try the Cadillac and I wanted to work with Kerry.”

So, did Cadillac get their 1st win? No. There aren't any Cadillac parts on the fiberglass body that replaced the Corvette body that was tossed because it was problematical.

Well, learning new stuff every day sometimes results in disappointments, like, SCCA isn't racing sports cars anymore. It's wealthy guys racing trick race car chassis with wind tunnel tuned bodies. So, whats the fucking point of admiring SCCA anymore? It's not Mark Donohue and Penske doing cool tricky things with factory cars, just to make a factory car a winning race car. Now, it's pointless, it's who spends more to win.

http://gotransam.com/news/?cid=65427
https://autoweek.com/article/sports-cars/ernie-francis-jr-repeats-trans-am-series-ta-class-champion

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