Jeff's Viewpoint
Mosport international Raceway May 17th 2003
Wet
weather was the plan for Audi quattro racer Jeff Pabst and his Pfaff Audi
sponsored
STaSIS Engineering Quattro A4, but as the sun opened up during qualifying
Saturday,
so did too the transmission of his Audi and also his teammate's Jon Prall.
This
is a very rare occurance for the Audi transmission to break, but is attributed
to
the standing starts which are used in the Speed TC series and are very
hard on equipment.
Both
cars did qualify but with only three hours till race time the thought of
repairing
two
broken Quattro transmissions in time seemed an impossible task. Only
one spare trans
was
on hand by the team and team owner Paul Lambert elected to install it in
series regular
Jon
Prall's car due to the valuable points available with a strong finish.
Which left Jeff's
car
with no gearbox. But, with never give up Audi attitude, and the help
of the boys
at
Champion Racing the trans was rebuilt using the two remaining broken units
and it was
back
in time for the team to perform a miraculous 20 minute installation and
got Jeff
on
the track, but unfortunately 3 laps down. Jeff did run with the leaders
showing his
strength,
though not jeopardizing the competition. John Prall's Pfaff Audi finished
5th and
Jeff
finished 32nd 3 laps down. Stay tuned as Jeff has other racing opportunities
coming up!
PFAFF
Audi Champion
Racing STaSIS
Engineering
STaSIS A4
Touring Cars as driven by Jon Prall and Jeff Pabst
Jeff Pabst,
Paul Lambert and Jon Prall
Perry Mason
of Pfaff Audi
Jeff talks
with fans after the race
Results
of Speed Touring Round 2 Mosport 05/17/03