Corvette veteran Rick Pfrang wins his class at Road America after a long shutdown in vintage racing
The 2020 Brian Redman WeatherTech (July 26/28) becomes the first vintage race at a major track since about 4 months ago at Sebring SVRA (Feb 28/Mar 1)
# 77 Rick Pfrang’s SCCA BP Corvette was originally campaigned in 1969. A beautiful up-to-date build by Cliff Ebben turned it into a class winner. See more below
# 05 Scott Borchetta was 2nd in Historic AP CLASSIC BIG-BORE PRODUCTION & MODERN GT race Group 6 & 10B
# 68 John Malmquist was 3rd in class
# 969 Mike Origer won in HBP while # 73 Harry Dinwiddie DNS in Historic GTO was going good up to the feature until a Porsche took him out.
# 12 Dave Roberts debuted the completion of his 1973 project car built at CRP pro shop of Nick Short outside of Charlotte NC.
# 77 Gunnar Pfrang (2007 GT1) and # 3 Casey Putsch (1988 GTS) were 3rd and 2nd in class in IMSA & NASCAR Group 10 A & C.
# 23 Todd Stuckart, # 24 Bill Treffert in Straight axles and # 163 Nick Groose Sting Ray split window coupe raced in GROUP 3 A, B & C.
Crowd dispersal moved the traditional parade and concours to the front straight from downtown Elkhart Lake, see Todd Stuckart # 23.
More about Travis Pfrang who decided to buy the car his dad Rick once piloted. The Wisconsin family heard it was with Alan Trotter in Texas who occasionally raced it but preferred to keep original (though outdated) as raced by Randy Stafford from Kansas City.
Race entries were about half of normal but that did not deter 52 Porsche entries.
Everyone felt blessed that veteran driver Jim Pace walked away from a from a backflip crash going hammers down that wrecked his Can Am Shadow DN4 at the marque’s 50th reunion.
Hat’s off to Kevin Bowman and Thomas J.King for photos
