Krohn/TRG - Mont-Tremblant race

Krohn Racing/TRG finished fifth after a grueling six-hour Rolex Sports Car
Series race at le Circuit Mont-Tremblant. Both Jörg Bergmeister and
Christian Fittipaldi led the rain-soaked race in the No. 66 Pontiac-powered
Riley Mk XI, but eletrical gremlins finally zapped them back to fifth place.
Their teammates weren't as lucky in the No. 67 Pontiac-Riley. Nic Jönsson
fought a failing electronic control unit and, as he slowly returned to pit
lane, he was hit by a GT car, taking him out of the race.

 

time           car            position             driver
action

 

start            66               7                      Bergmeister
windshield wipers not working        

start            67               8                      Jönsson

50m            67             13                      Jönsson
ECU failed, hit by GT car, out of race

                  66               7                      Bergmeister
pit – fuel, wiper repair

1h43           66               1                      Bergmeister
race lead

2h6             66               2                      Bergmeister
lead change

2h23           66               2                      change
pit – Fittipaldi in, tires, fuel

3h17           66               1                      Fittipaldi
race lead

3h26           66               1                      Fittipaldi
pit – dry tires, fuel

3h58           66               1                      Fittipaldi
pit – fuel

4h36           66               2                      Fittipaldi
lead change

4h48           66               2                      change
pit – Bergmeister in, tires, fuel

6h               66               5                      Fittipaldi
finish

 

Jörg Bergmeister, No. 66:

 

"Right when I went out of the pits, I lost the power-shift so I had to use
the clutch on upshifts. After five laps, I started to get misfiring and it
got worse and worse. But I could do turn one flat out!"

 

Christian Fittipaldi, No. 66:

 

"It was a really competitive race. I didn't expect that for six hours the
top six cars would be running nose to tail. In the wet, it was pretty bad
because I went out with a brand-new set of rains [tires]. which was a
mistake. The car was simply undriveable. The tires took about six or seven
laps to come in and then it was okay. I just had to be very, very patient
and make sure the tires would come in."

 

Nic Jönsson, No. 67: 

 

"You can't see anything in the spray – it's a lottery of whether or not
you'll stay on track. It's just very dangerous. We had an ECU go bad on us
several times and then it just completely died. I got the car refired, fixed
the idle and tried to make it back to the pits, but on the back
straightaway, a GT car just came at full speed and hit me from the side.
That was it."

 

Tracy Krohn, No. 67:

 

"Apparently, we got a lot of water inside the car. The splitter acts like a
water funnel and Nic said he had about three inches of water inside the car,
so the ECU crapped out about three times. Vision inside the car was no
problem – there was no fogging – but the outside was really hard to see. And
this track has old asphalt on it, so it throws up a lot of spray. It's
pretty risky out there."