jeff

Once again this was Jerry Ventos first chance to experience the famous California course. With a very successful practice session on Thursday for Vento and the freshly restored 56' Ferrari the team was ready to push hard. With over 600 beautiful cars entered with the likes of Ferrari, Bugatti, Jaguar, Porsche, Lola and Cooper, this was an event like no other. Friday consisted of a single qualifying session for the feature race Saturday morning. Vento was able to continue to bring the lap times down throughout the session placing him 6th in the drum brake division, a great effort. Saturday morning was cool with the mist beautifully clearing as the sun grew taller in the sky. The Velox Motorsport  entry with Jerry Vento piloting was ready for a fight. As the green flag dropped Vento dropped the Ferrari down to the inside and rode the wall all the way to turn 1 muscling his way by 3 cars. At the conclusion of lap 2 Vento was sitting in 3rd and in a direct train with the leader and 2nd. Vento then began to pick them off on his way to the lead. By lap 5 Vento had the lead and began to stretch it out. At Lap 7 Vento had a commanding lead, almost the length of the front straight. With another car leaving sand and oil at the apex of the final corner Vento gets off the course and the 1956 Ferrari stalls. Vento quickly regroups and rejoins the field in 3rd position. Crossing the line with 1 lap remaining Vento is able to take back the 2nd place position and take the checkered 2nd in Drum Brakes. Considering this is the first outing for the freshly restored 250GT and Jerry Ventos first visit to Laguna Seca Raceway this was again a very successful weekend having lead the class and stretching the lead. This event contained the rarest and most expensive cars in the world, everywhere you looked there were the cars you have read, seen pictures of or only seen on t.v. It was truly an amazing site all these historic sport and vintage racecars all at one venue. The Monterey Historics are definitely "a must see".