Jody O’Donnell & Rick Mooney are the top Group 6 Corvettes at Road America 2024 Historic Races
To no surprise, frontrunner Jody O’Donnell in his # 46 1969 big block was the fastest Corvette by far at the Brian Redman WeatherTech historic races hosted by Road America in mid-July 11-14.
Travis Pfrang # 5 in his 1969 Corvette trailed O’Donnell by about 4 seconds.
Rick Mooney driving his family-owned # 42 1969 led Robert Gee in his # 696, 1969 Corvette.
Claire Schwendeman # 37, 1968 was also in that mix.
J.P. Griffith # 8, 1968, Chip Boatright # 113, 1969 and Bob Lima # 33, 1969 Corvettes.
Harry Dinwiddie’s venerable # 73, 1969 soaked up the fun at the legendary car show in downtown Elkhart Lake.
John Malmquist # 68, 1969, Jason Woita # 5, 1963, and Nick Groose # 163 1963 ran in a Group 6 sub-class for older cars.
So did Avery Stuckart # 23, 1956 and Bill Treffert # 24, 1960 in straight axle Corvettes built by Jim Melton.
Brian Morrison # 76 was back after several years, celebrating his dad’s life on Saturday evening with materials collected by Dave Rex, a colleague from Tero Corvette, back from their days in Chicago.
Brad Briscoe # 15, 1976 Greenwood chassis 010 ran in a group for Trans Am cars of that period.
Robert Blain, # 64, 2005 C5/6 Pratt & Miller chassis 013, Pierce Marshall # 3 2016, C7.R Pratt & Miller chassis 003 and Chas Wicht # 26 2018, C7 GT3.R Callaway chassis 002 were grouped with modern GT cars.
Heavy rains from late Saturday night carried over to early Sunday morning with most Corvette racers sitting out Sunday in the name of caution, even though the skies later cleared up.
This # 08 display car caught the eye of Brian Hoskins.
Photo credits Pete Gorski d/b/a Visors Down and Brian Hoskins.
Bonus coverage of Corvettes at Fall 2024 VSCDA Road America
Travis Pfrang # 5, 1969 SCCA BP from Little Chute WI
Rick Mooney # 42, 1968 SCCA BP from Lake Oswego OR
Trent Thompson # 53, 1988 Corvette Challenge from Decatur IL 1988
Robert Blain # 64, 2004/5 ALMS from Janesville WI
Evan Picore # 81, 1969 SCCA BP from Newton WI
Chip Boatright # 113, 1969 SCCA BP from Mundelein IL
Ryan Kehoe # 173, 1997 Trans Am from Brookfield WI