History
The Tangerine Racing 914 has been raced
continuously with SCCA and PCA since 1995.
It was debuted at the ITB
support race on the Busch North race weekend at Lime Rock in September, 1994.
During qualifying the car was wrecked in a solo crash at West Bend which
resulted in the engine breaking free from its mounts.
Despite an all-night
attempt to repair the car for race day it was not capable of being driven at
speed,
the suspension and drive train damage being greater than was first
obvious.
The following spring the car was out on the
opening day Porsche Club Driver Ed at Lime Rock.
It was then raced as an ITB car in the SCCA NARRC series, with Chris finishing more than 30 races in two
years.
Most of the 1997 race season was spent upgrading the car to
Production category specifications.
A couple of races were run late in the
season to test the upgrades, which included a new cooling system and dry sump
oiling system.
Chris won the NARRC Regional Championship
for E Production cars in 1998.
The car was moved to F Production and Chris won Regional championships again in
'00 and '01.
Chris stepped up to National competition in
2003. He won one National race at Lime Rock in the rain and qualified to attend
the National Championship Runoffs at the MId
Ohio Sports Car Course,
where he qualified 21st and finished 14th.
Speed TV coverage focused on
Chris' last lap of the race when he was embroiled in a battle
for position with a Lancia Scorpion driven by Sterling Strittmatter.
One week after the 2003 Runoffs, the car
was badly damaged again in a high speed crash at Lime Rock during NARRC Regional
Championship qualifying.
Chris was uninjured but the car was laid up until July '04 when he resumed
National competition.
The '04 season saw Chris once again attend the National Runoffs at MId- Ohio
where he finished 15th.
At the '04 NARRC Championships Chris won his class, setting a new personal best
time at Lime Rock of 1:01.4

