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| Another Kink in the 4 Car"s Armor | |
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|  | | August 10 2008 07:43:09 AM EST | |
| O'Connell / Magnussen won their 6th of seven races, 5th in a row. But, only after a dominating performance from Gavin / Beretta went for nil....and hopefully not without more intra-team controversy [seems not].
52 minutes from race end, with Gavin in the lead and Mag’s chasing, the two Corvettes went after each other, again. Gavin speaks, "Jan was behind me, I was pushing hard, and I was trying to make up some time." [because despite the lead, pit strategy was going to turn the race over to the #3 if Gavin didn’t create an on-track gap].
But, Gavin went off course in the high-speed Kink, the fastest corner on the fastest straight on a very fast 4-mile track. "I just turned the car in too quickly and got on the inside curb. The car shot across to the exit curb and onto the grass. [Once] on the grass, there was no way I could hold it.” Gavin was uninjured in the incident.
To that point, #4 had been lapping quicker than the GT1 field – 6th tenths over the #3, 3.4 seconds over the AM ‘Show Car’ [You all DID know that the Bell car is a converted display vehicle?].
The GM press release covers it all.
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