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Name: Dorothy Johnston Age: 35 Team: Southern Motors Racing Car: ITE #24 C-4 Corvette Fastest Lap: 1:18.581 Occupation: Photographer/Studio Owner Johnston Photography In Oxford Married To Don Johnston, also a photographer Website: www.johnstonimages.com |
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Dorothy has been a Waterford Hills fan since she was a little Girl. Her father brought her out here every race weekend when he started racing at Waterford in the early 80's. Dorothy grew up playing with cars not dolls, and has been a car freak ever since.
Dorothy started racing in 2002 after completing Waterford hills driving school that year. Dorothy continues to bring her lap times down and has a great consistent line around the Waterford Hills race track. |
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Name: Scott Whitehead Age: 24 Team: Rhino Brothers Racing Car: ITE #63 Mustang Fastest Lap: 1:18.5 Driving Instructor with SAAC-MCR and other local groups |
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A lifelong avid race fan, Scott has participated in various Car Club days and Open Track events at Waterford Hills over the last few years, finally attending WHRRI Drivers School in the Spring of 2000 and earning his Competition License during the season by co-driving John Eicholtz’s ITB Mustang.
Plans for 2001 are to run his own Mustang in the hotly contested IT-E class at WHRRI in addition to select SCCA, MCSCC, and SCCA Pro World Challenge events. Information on Scott’s car and team can be found at: www.rhinobrothersracing.com |
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Name: Tom Toth Age: 45 (in dog years) Car: #88 Camaro American Sedan 2000 WHRRI/AS Class Champion 2000WHRRI/Top Ten Driver 2000 SCCA Central Division A Sedan Champion 15 of 20 Fastest WHRRI Race laps in 2000 |
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Tom has always been a certifiable car nut and die hard Corvette fan. He started Auto Crossing in 1997 in a C-4 Corvette, which later evolved into track events and drivers schools. Tom began his road racing career in 1994 in SCCA’s New England Division driving an ITS Mazda RX-7. This early racing experience included tracks like Pocono, Lime Rock, and New Hampshire International. Unfortunately, Tom’s ITS car was totaled in a 100 MPH crash at Lime Rock by his driving instructor. (It was never determined exactly what the “instructor” was trying to illustrate for Tom with that particular maneuver.) The A Sedan car project was started in 1996, just prior to Tom relocating to Michigan. While the AS Camaro was being completed, he kept his skills sharp driving an ITA Mazda RX-7 at Waterford Hills in 1996 and 1997. The Camaro was finished in time to make the 1998 season, although 1998 and 1999 proved troublesome for Tom with a number of mechanical gremlins showing up, which is very typical with a “new” race car. The difficulties culminated on the second test day of the 2000 season in a catastrophic engine failure at Waterford Hills. With the help of John Blanchard (Engines by JB) the white #88 Camaro was readied in time for the 2000 season, which it pretty much dominated in both SCCA CENDIV and WHRRI races. Plans for 2001 include an all-new car to be campaigned at WHRRI and in SCCA Regional and National events.
Favorite quote: If you can’t have fun, you shouldn’t be doing it |
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Name: Marc
Gerstenberger Born: 07.29.67 Occupation: Sales Rep/Prefix Corp. Car: Great Lakes Power Sports #99 GT1 Beretta Fastest Lap: 1:14.3 Email: pr@waterfordhills.com WHRRI Director of PR |
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| After running the rotary powered Mazda RX7 ITR
car for four years, the Beretta became available last fall and I jumped
on it. I concentrated on getting it mechanically sound over the winter
and have been enjoying learning how to drive the car this season. With
almost 5 times the power under my right foot as I had in the Mazda plus
going to true racing slicks and a purpose built chassis, it has been a
real experience getting used to the immediacy that the car responds to
input with- I love driving this car!
My best friend, Jon Tomkins, agreed to be my Crew Chief and has done an excellent job keeping the car happy and helping to deal with engine tuning, gearing and driveline issues. He is always there for me, slugging it out in the heat so I can concentrate on driving. I could not run this car without Jon’s help. Watch for Jon in the car at the Fun Run this fall. Jon, you’ve earned it!
In June 2002, Great Lakes Power Sports signed on as our sponsor and we are looking forward to bringing PWC, Snowmobile, and Motorcycle customers to them for years to come. My goal is for this to be as good a deal for them as it has been for the team. With the Beretta’s very healthy appetite for Hoosier slicks and racing fuel, their assistance has been absolutely key to keeping the Beretta on the race track, plus they really are a bunch of gearheads and love racing. It’s great to have them come out to watch the races and hang out in my paddock.
We have earned a GT1 victory twice this year at Waterford Hills and
look forward to winning many more. We definitely have our work cut out
for us! |