after 18 years the KOTH is still winning races - ZR-1 Net Registry Forums

ZRWON · 08-27-2008

I thought you all might be interested in this recent Open Road Racing event, i.e., the Pony130 which runs from Battle Mountain to Austin NV. At 130 miles it's the longest ORR in the US.
We were competing in the 155 mph class.
At an average speed of 155 mph (can't exceed tech limit speed of 172 or you'd be disqualified) a perfect time would be 50 minutes, 17.032 seconds. 155 is 2nd fastest speed group. The 160mph group, unlimited class, is the fastest speed group and usually includes only the guys trying to make the
200 mph club. There's no tech limit on their top speed. Only 4 cars ran in
that group and 2 didn't finish.
I was navigator in Bob Wood's '06 Z06, and Ted Zaleski, a long time ZR-1 owner and REGISTRY member, started exactly one minute behind us in his beautiful '90 black ZR-1. About 40 miles down the road that Black ZR-1 was passing us!!!
At the end, the top three results for our 155 mph group of cars were:
1st place time was 50:17.694 vs the perfect goal of 50:17.032 Ted Zaleski '90 ZR-1 winner
2nd place was 50:18.028 Bob Wood and me in his '06 Z06
3rd place was 50:19.552

Ted's one of the best drivers out there and his old BEAST is pretty good
too!!
To other audiences I bite my tongue and tell them he beat us only because of his superior driving skills but we all know it was a result of the
magnificent KOTH with a little help from Ted.
Congratulations Ted on your a great run,

Bill Strowbridge

08-27-2008	#1
ZRWON Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Whidbey Island WA Posts: 258	after 18 years the KOTH is still winning races I thought you all might be interested in this recent Open Road Racing event, i.e., the Pony130 which runs from Battle Mountain to Austin NV. At 130 miles it's the longest ORR in the US. We were competing in the 155 mph class. At an average speed of 155 mph (can't exceed tech limit speed of 172 or you'd be disqualified) a perfect time would be 50 minutes, 17.032 seconds. 155 is 2nd fastest speed group. The 160mph group, unlimited class, is the fastest speed group and usually includes only the guys trying to make the 200 mph club. There's no tech limit on their top speed. Only 4 cars ran in that group and 2 didn't finish. I was navigator in Bob Wood's '06 Z06, and Ted Zaleski, a long time ZR-1 owner and REGISTRY member, started exactly one minute behind us in his beautiful '90 black ZR-1. About 40 miles down the road that Black ZR-1 was passing us!!! At the end, the top three results for our 155 mph group of cars were: 1st place time was 50:17.694 vs the perfect goal of 50:17.032 Ted Zaleski '90 ZR-1 winner 2nd place was 50:18.028 Bob Wood and me in his '06 Z06 3rd place was 50:19.552 Ted's one of the best drivers out there and his old BEAST is pretty good too!! To other audiences I bite my tongue and tell them he beat us only because of his superior driving skills but we all know it was a result of the magnificent KOTH with a little help from Ted. Congratulations Ted on your a great run, Bill Strowbridge __________________ ZRWON '90 #553 & BEAST2 '93 #211, an AutoMasters Street Skinner version of a BlackWidow LT5 [URL]http://www.zr1netregistry.com/ZR1_faq.htm#66[/URL] NCRS#894 "It's not the car; it's the people" ...Doug Johnson 1953-2003 40 years VETTE history @ [URL="http://home.comcast.net/~bbstrow/"][COLOR=#555555]http://home.comcast.net/~bbstrow/[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p21dz80uGaA"][COLOR=#333333]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p21dz80uGaA[/COLOR][/URL] Last edited by ZRWON; 08-28-2008 at 01:36 PM.