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Press Releases by Amy Ruman
June 20, 2005
Amy Ruman Wins Dicey GT-1 National at BeaveRun Motorsports
Complex
Munroe Falls, OH - What a weekend for Amy Ruman and
the Ruman Racing team. Ruman, driving the #23 McNichols/Cenweld
Corvette, took her third pole in a row. Ruman posted the fastest
time in the morning practice session and solidified the pole
position in the afternoon qualifying session with a quick
time of 55.077 seconds, beating the existing GT-1 track record
of 56.418 seconds.
Out of the eight car GT-1 line-up, the first two rows in
Sunday's race were Ruman, Bret Moyer, William Rozmajzi, and
Bill Thumel. The green flag fell and Ruman and Moyer took
off. They were side-by-side down the front straight, through
turns one and two, when Ruman took the lead going into turn
three. Ruman lead lap one with Moyer right on her tail. Moyer
passed Ruman under braking into turn 1 on the second lap.
Ruman fell in behind and the chase was on. Moyer created some
distance, but Ruman kept him in sight. Ruman closed the gap
up and they ran nose to tail about 13 laps.
On lap 21, the two caught some lapped traffic, Moyer washed
out a bit coming out of turn 5, Ruman ducked to the inside
and they ran side-by-side up the hill. Ruman made the pass
at the top of the hill to take the lead. Ruman created some
distance from Moyer, who was then in the hunt. With about
four laps to go, something went amiss with Ruman's transmission.
She lost 2nd gear and was forced to use 3rd, 4th, and 5th
for the remaining laps, which slowed her times down. Her lead
shrunk to about 2 seconds by the final lap; but Moyer spun
on the downhill trying to catch Ruman. Ruman took the checkered
for her second win this season, Moyer finished 2nd, and Bill
Thumel was 3rd.
"That was an unbelievable race!" stated Ruman.
"Bret and I were really dicing it out. We raced flag
to flag with no breaks at all. The speed and time difference
was astounding with the GT-2's, GT-3's, and A Sedans mixed
into our group. I felt like we were in a video game just slicing
through cars lap after lap. At the end, there were only three
of us on the lead lap; everyone else was two or more laps
down."
"Bret and I both agreed that was one of the best races
we'd ever been in. Bret got the track record though, with
a 55.174 so my hats off to him. My best time was a 55.746,
but I just couldn't find my qualifying time in the race again.
Oh well, I'll take the win! My crew has really dialed in great
set-ups for the McNichols/Cenweld Corvette the past three
races, I couldn't have done it without them."
The National Northeast point's race is really heating up,
with Ruman back in the lead with 38 points, Hopwood in 2nd
with 36, and Canney in 3rd with 24.
Next Up - July 9-10: SCCA GT-1 National at Watkins Glen,
NY
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