TRG - Mont-Tremblant preview

Canadian quest

 

TRG knows what it takes to win on le Circuit Mont-Tremblant in Québec, site
of the next Rolex Sports Car Series race. The California team won the GT
class on the 2.65-mile track in 2002 and followed with a second-place class
finish in 2004. Andy Lally of Dacula, Ga., who drives the No. 65 Auto
Gallery/TRG Porsche 911 GT3 Cup with Marc Bunting of Monkton, Md., has won
at Mont-Tremblant, topping the SRPII class in 2002. He also notched two
class pole positions on the fast Canadian course.

 

"I love this track! it is so smooth and has some great high-speed sweeping
corners. I love just about everything about this track and am really looking
forward to racing there again," he said. ''Turn one is probably the
trickiest corner. There are three different elevation changes through the
corner and it is a totally blind exit. Add on to that the fact it may be the
fastest corner on the track and you now have one tough corner."

 

video view

 

Marc Bullock of Tulsa, Okla., and Dave Master of Santa Fe, N.M., will race
at Mont-Tremblant for the first time on May 21, sharing the No. 63 Master
Asset Management/Somers Lithium Porsche. Master has logged long hours
preparing for the race with an in-car video.

 

"I watch it for three to five hours at least, just getting the memory of all
the things that you do in the car. Then I'll get the track map and write
down all the brake points and all the shift points and have that all in my
mind before I even get there, so my time to learn the track will be much
shorter," he explained.

 

"It's a beautiful layout, and it looks like it's in extremely good
condition. It doesn't seem to be a complicated track. I counted – it's only
got 10 upshifts and eight downshifts. But any track takes at least three
different times to really learn it. Then I get comfortable, really get the
sense that I'm beginning to know the little nuances of the track."

 

global racer

 

Marc Bullock plans to see the world from his race car. He and his son Marc
will start their international quest driving a Porsche Cayenne S in the
Targa Newfoundland international rally in September. The seven-day Canadian
event covers 1300 miles. The pair have also entered the 2007 Peking-to-Paris
10,000-mile race, and they will likely contest a race from Equador to
Argentina in 2006. Shanghai, China, is also on their wish list.

 

"We love the adventure of travel and the adventure of all car nuts, so I
think that's a good meld," Bullock said.