Toronto, Canada (July 22, 2010）–Jeff Courtney returned to the wheel of the No. 99 Kenda Tires/Woodhouse/Dodge/Viper Competition Coupe last weekend for Round 7 of the 2010 World Challenge Sports Car Wars after a bruising run at Watkins Glen. Teammate Kuno Wittmer was also back in his completely remade No. 13 Woodhouse Performance/Dodge Viper Competition Coupe. Courtney earned an 8th place finish while teammate Wittmer finished 6th.
“Things were looking up for the Woodhouse Team when we got to Toronto,” said Team Owner Bob Woodhouse. “Watkins Glen left us with two cars not fit to be seen on the bad side of town, it is times like this where a team’s strength is really shown. Huge thanks go out to the team, and many other key people for their incredible rebuild of the car. It was a day and night scrambling to make the repairs and be at Toronto on time. ”
Mid-way through the 2010 season, the competition really heats up. “The Volvos with the engine, brakes and AWD advantage were hard to beat, just like the past six events,” said Wittmer. “The championship is our goal. We will try to bring our game to the table in every remaining event in order to gather all those vital points.
“After the team made an incredible re-incarnation of Kuno's #13 Dodge Viper Competition Coupe we felt we had a pair of top five cars. Jeff has been simply smokin’ off some great lap times, in the zone let’s say, and Kuno, well few drivers have more laps in and know more about the surface of the Toronto course than he does. The two of them were chasing each other finding more and more speed on the course by the time qualifying showed up on Saturday. So you can see why we had lofty hopes for great finishes.”
Unfortunately, those hopes were dashed. “Both of our drivers lowered their times substantially in qualifying, problem was, the Volvo's literally blew everyone off the asphalt. ” said Woodhouse. “We had two incredible cars for the race with two well driven races, no flaws existed other than how we finished, 6 and 8. We felt we came with more than that. This course did not respect our big bad Vipers; it favored the short wheel base, lower center of gravity cars. We fell back in the short square and slow corners. Stay tuned, this is not acceptable.” Woodhouse is focused on the future.