Hey Man,
The weather has been great in Houston this weekend.
Your Houston Cougars are in the heart of conference play now. It took going to overtime, but The Cougars were able to overcome a large lead by UTEP and win at home this Saturday. UTEP had to bench tww of their key players due to fouls and that helped. The other factors were that the Cougars didn't quit and made their free throws. How I wish our glory days teams had made their free throws!
The 2012 sport year got started with the 50th running of the 24 Hours of Daytona. Over 75,000 fans packed the infield camping area for the biggest attendance ever. A.J. Foyt was to be the Grand Marshall, but he was still in the hospital in Houston, so Sir Jackie Stewart filled in.
The race was a classic, lots of cars and lots of stories.
In the top Daytona Prototype class the we saw the new spec cars take the pole and the lead. The all new Corvettes were expected to be fast, but they all failed. The Fords had a 500 RPM restriction this year, but were still faster than the Corvettes or BMWs. A. J. Allmendinger brought home the 1st place overall and DP class trophy for Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian. 'Dinger and McNish traded some paint NASCAR style on the high banks and that is not something you see everyday in endurance racing.
In GT we saw an army of Porsche GT3s overwhelm the rest of the field. There were RX8s, Cameros, a Corvette, a Viper, 5 Ferrari 458s, a couple of Audi R8s and a lone Mustang Boss 302, but Porsche ruled the day. In the end Magnus Racing pulled out a win over TRG and Brumos Racing. Risi Competizione of Houston fielded a couple of 458s.
cheers
the electricAlan
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