The 1979 IMSA Camel GT race at BIR. The race that got me involved in this sport. It featured no less than nine 935s and two of the ultra-turbo’d BMW 320s. Standing along the fence between T9 and T10 watch these rocket ships go by with whistling turbos and spitting flames out the back, and I was hooked for a lifetime. This car, the iconic 59 of Peter Gregg, took and pole and the race. Fast lap of the race was Moretti in the Momo 935 at 1:33. Qualy was in the rain (Something else I had never seen before. Racing in the rain? What?) and to give you an idea of how far rain tires have come, Gregg’s pole lap was a 1:53.5. Maybe that also says something about the 935 as well.
This photo is taken from the outside of T8. There used to be a photographers stand there for this great vantage point.
Well, as you were watching between turns 9 and 10, the club was manning turn 2. In the fall of 1968, the Howmet Turbine was brought to Donnybrooks and the local sports car clubs were invited u[. SCCA had to man the corners for professional events, but the local region LOL did not have enough members. SCCA announced that any club that had an active member in SCCA and had there corner workers captains license could have a turn manned by there clubs personel. Nord Stern was lucky enough to have Jim Hyaek as an SCCA member. Nord Stern requested turn 3, but SCCA thought that turn would have the most incidents and would man it with SCCA personal. Nord Stern was given turn 2.