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May 18, 2006
AiM Sports Racing Data Systems Give Grand-Am Cup Racers the Edge
Car owner/driver Steve Bernheim and Dwain Dement shared the No. 03 BernheimLaw.com Porsche 996 in the Grand-Am Cup 200 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on May 6th, with the latter taking the checkered flag to score the first career series win for Bernheim Racing and a win for both drivers in their native California.
Dement, of Laguna Hills, CA, took control of the No. 03 machine from Bernheim during one of the race's seven caution periods, running near the front of the pack throughout most of the final stint. The decisive pass came on Lap 50, when Dement overtook Lonnie Pechnik in the No. 09 Engine Music Studios/Fiske Wheels BMW M3 in Turn 2 and never looked back, finishing 1.596-seconds ahead of Patrick Long in the No. 81 Wheel Enhancement/Synergy Racing Porsche 997.
"The crew gave me a good car and all I had to do was point it and go," said Dement. "We just ran clean, we stayed out of trouble and the yellows helped us. That's how we won the race."
Bernheim, of Beverly Hills, qualified the machine 24th overall, and steadily picked off positions during his stint. In three previous career Grand-Am Cup Series starts, Bernheim's best finish was 10th, coming with Dement in the season-opener at Daytona International Speedway.
"It feels really great to win," said Bernheim. "We're big supporters of this series and Bernheim is a sponsor (Bernheim Improve Your Position Award). I'd like to thank Dwain. He not only brought home the bacon, but he built this car. The strategy was to bring in the car clean and turn it over to Dwain. We were able to do the race on one stop, and Dwain just had to watch his fuel during yellows."
The Porsche 996 is outfitted with an AiM Sports MXL Pista data logger/digital display and DaVid data/video logging system. Joe Hullet, of Digital Competition Systems, is the team's race engineer and data acquisition specialist. "In an endurance situation, it's great to have the AiM systems to track fuel usage and distance covered in addition to lap times, speeds, temps and other engine performance metrics. The DaVid system lets us review the video as soon as the car comes in and see what the driver and the car were experiencing."
Posted by aimsports || erik at May 18, 2006 09:24 PM