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Preview of the 2018 World War II Film Festival in Normandy

The World War II Foundation will hosts its 2018 Festival in Normandy, France with the help of famed actor David McCallum (known for his parts in NCIS, The Great Escape, Colditz and many more). As previous year, also many of the Band of Brothers actors will be present, if they – of course – do not receive an acting job in the mean time which prevents them from travelling.

The festival will be held…

365 Films Part 7: 22/365

Three Minnesotans competed in the Trans Am TA2 Class this past weekend at the Road America racetrack in Elkhart Lake Wisconsin. Tommy Archer from Duluth MN, Jordan Bernloehr of Lakeville MN and Tim Gray out of Eden Prairie MN. The TA2 class is a step down from the full Trans Am cars but is fast becoming the driver and fan favorite with large fields and ultra competitive racing. With the weekends practice and qualifying on Friday taking place in dry and largely sunny conditions the racer awoke to heavy rain on Saturday for the races. This meant a big guess for the teams as far as setup on the racecars.

Jordan Bernloehr form Lakeville Minnesota at the SCCA Trans Am Round 7 August 26 at Road America Elkhart Lake Wisc.

Tommy Archer in the number 54 ECC / KolarChev.com/Chevrolet Camaro struggled in qualifying ending up eighth on the grid. Young gun Jordan Bernloehr in the number 07 BCR/MillersOil/ProKart/AirJax/Chevrolet Camaro in his first year of Trans Am racing had to settle for 12th starting position when a red flag cut short his best lap. Tim Gray’s number 60 Ryan Companies US Inc./Chevrolet Camaro started 19th in one of just a few of his Trans Am starts this year.

Tommy’s race started with a bit of a bang when he got tangled up with points leader Gar Robinson Camaro causing minor damage to Archer’s Camaro but Gar wound up in the turn one wall. After a few laps behind the pace car to clean up Robinson’s wreck Tommy took the bit between his teeth and charged from his starting spot in 8th to 2nd in just 5 laps setting the fastest lap of the race in spite of the treacherous conditions. This I’m sure is due in no small part to Tommy’s extensive ice racing background, Minnesota you know. After a short time in 2nd place Archer’s Camaro begin to fade and dropped back as far as 17th by the finish caused by a “small mechanical” problem.

Jordan on the other hand kept his nose clean for the first half of the race. Then as the condition began to dry he started to move forward. With the drying tack it took it’s toll on the wet weather tires as they began to over heat on the now partially dry track. Bernloehr got his Camaro as high as 5th when near the finish in a battle with Milwaukee driver Lawrence Loshak who won the previous round at Mid Ohio lost the position and ended up 7th.

Tim Gray ran a steady race until at about two thirds distance ran off the track and got stuck in the turn 3 gravel trap. The safety team was able to extract the number 60 Camaro but Tim was now a few laps down but soldiered on to finish but in 18th.

Tony Buffomante in the Mike Cope Racing/Ford Mustang took the win in the Road America TA2 Trans Am race taking over the points lead and earning the CoolShirt Systems Cool Move of the Race for his pass in turn one for the lead.

Duluth native, Tommy Archer

Three Minnesotans competed in the Trans Am TA2 Class this past weekend at the Road America racetrack in Elkhart Lake Wisconsin. Tommy Archer from Duluth MN, Jordan Bernloehr of Lakeville MN and Tim Gray out of Eden Prairie MN. The TA2 class is a step down from the full Trans Am cars but is fast becoming the driver and fan favorite with large fields and ultra competitive racing. With the weekends practice and qualifying on Friday taking place in dry and largely sunny conditions the racer awoke to heavy rain on Saturday for the races. This meant a big guess for the teams as far as setup on the racecars.

  Tommy Archer in the number 54 ECC / KolarChev.com/Chevrolet Camaro struggled in qualifying ending up eighth on the grid. Young gun Jordan Bernloehr in the number 07 BCR/MillersOil/ProKart/AirJax/Chevrolet Camaro in his first year of Trans Am racing had to settle for 12th starting position when a red flag cut short his best lap. Tim Gray’s number 60 Ryan Companies US Inc./Chevrolet Camaro started 19th in one of just a few of his Trans Am starts this year.

Lakeville’s Jordan Bernloehr

Tommy’s race started with a bit of a bang when he got tangled up with points leader Gar Robinson Camaro causing minor damage to Archer’s Camaro but Gar wound up in the turn one wall. After a few laps behind the pace car to clean up Robinson’s wreck Tommy took the bit between his teeth and charged from his starting spot in 8th to 2nd in just 5 laps setting the fastest lap of the race in spite of the treacherous conditions. This I’m sure is due in no small part to Tommy’s extensive ice racing background, Minnesota you know. After a short time in 2nd place Archer’s Camaro begin to fade and dropped back as far as 17th by the finish caused by a “small mechanical” problem.

Jordan on the other hand kept his nose clean for the first half of the race. Then as the condition began to dry he started to move forward. With the drying tack it took it’s toll on the wet weather tires as they began to over heat on the now partially dry track. Bernloehr got his Camaro as high as 5th when near the finish in a battle with Milwaukee driver Lawrence Loshak who won the previous round at Mid Ohio lost the position and ended up 7th.

Tim Gray ran a steady race until at about two thirds distance ran off the track and got stuck in the turn 3 gravel trap. The safety team was able to extract the number 60 Camaro but Tim was now a few laps down but soldiered on to finish but in 18th.

Tony Buffomante in the Mike Cope Racing/Ford Mustang took the win in the Road America TA2 Trans Am race taking over the points lead and earning the CoolShirt Systems Cool Move of the Race for his pass in turn one for the lead.