Danny Lowrie's Race Report in the #111 Shelby

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Danny Lowrie, driver of the #111 Shelby GT350, recounts his experience during the race. Despite starting from the back of the grid due to an unknown reason, he enjoyed passing slower traffic. He describes a close call in Turn 3 where a Boxster spun out directly in front of him. Luckily, he was able to brake and narrowly avoid hitting the car. He also mentions the car handles great and performs as expected.

Goal: Understand the challenges and excitement of racing a vintage muscle car from a driver's firsthand account.

Tools and materials

1966 Shelby GT350 #111 Ford — The car driven by Danny Lowrie
Porsche Boxster Porsche — Another car involved in the close call

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584th. How'd it go? What happened? Uh, it went good. Uh, for some reason in that race they started me in the back. Don't know why, but they did. So, I had a lot of, uh, traffic that was a little bit slower. So, uh, I really couldn't run for anything, but I did have a lot of fun passing cars, which is always nice. The car performed really well. Did everything that it should do. Um, those cars slide around a lot on the track, which is a little bit different for me, but it's a whole lot of fun to drive them. Nothing. No close calls or anything. Just Yeah, I do have a close call. When you look at the video, some guy in a box here spun at three dead in front of me. I was on his bumper. I was pretty dang close trying to pressure him so I could take him uh coming out of five and he just for some reason he just spun it right on top of the uh curve at

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