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Welcome to garra-fans.com, the official Website of the Cognoscenti! We are supporters of the Grand American Road Racing Association. This is where you will find Grand American news and race reports from a different perspective (for the fans, by the fans), stories and information from the members of the Cognoscenti, photos, and much, much more.

May 8, 2006 - Congrats to frenzy88 for winning the Laguna Seca round of the GAFL! He was followed by Speedking, rennman, SunTrustFan, CKC, GAPR, and bonez. The season top five is LIVE2RACE, JoeF, CKC, dmeluzio22, and frenzy88. Here's the results, standings, and 6pick.

May 2, 2006 - Rich Hall sent in his latest, "Can I Get A Witness?" Also, look for the new and improved garra-fans.com v.3 to open soon!

April 24, 2006 - Got 2 things for you today...first, razor took this video from VIR of a Grand Am Cup RX-8. If you've never heard one, you need to! Second is the GAFL results... The winner is new daddy CKC! He was followed by GAPR, flamingo man, wlfpkrcn, bonez, and new mommy sjc. The current standings are LIVE2RACE, JoeF, dmeluzio22, Waco Racer, CKC. Here's the full race results, standings, and 6 Pick.

April 17, 2006 - Here's a preview of something cool that Mike Paz and I are working on...his radio interviews from Long Beach! The first one is Mark Raffauf and is an interesting listen after-the-fact. Special thanks to Grand American for letting us use these!

April 10, 2006 - The results are posted for the Long Beach GAFL round. Congrats to frenzy88 for winning with the top score possible and winning a "In Roger We Trust" special edition garra-fans.com t-shirt! Finishing the top 5 were doncasey, LIVE2RACE, CKC, and mazda52. The new points leader is LIVE2RACE followed by JoeF, Waco Racer, dmeluzio22, and frenzy88 (who gained EIGHT spots this week!). Here's the race results, standings, 6 Pick.

April 5, 2006 - I just posted my latest Tommy's Notebook...a Long Beach preview. Also, don't forget the pick your DP's for the Long Beach GAFL round! The thread is here...and the deadline is 7:00 AM PACIFIC TIME on Friday.

March 27, 2006 - We got picture! John Thompson (Fan09) sent in this gallery from Homestead. Also, here's the GAFL results from Homestead (Current Standings are here, 6 Pick is here). Your top six from the weekend were LIVE2RACE (Congrats!), JoeF (the points leader!), Datsun510, dmeluzio22, Waco Racer, and Lab Rat. Thanks to everyone for playing and I'm sorry for the issue with the TPC team. If anyone needs more clarification, please feel free to contact me.

March 24, 2006 - I just posted a new Tommy's Notebook about Colin Braun's situation this weekend.

March 16, 2006 - I got a press release from Cyberspeed Racing, and I now have a new favorite livery. Check out my Tommy's Notebook here...

March 14, 2006 - There's lots of changes happening with this site, so if things seem a little weird this week (or two), it's just me tweaking on things.

March 6, 2006 - Congrats to bonez for winning the Mexico round of the GAFL! GTPstarter was second followed by ODUracer21, Waco Racer, and cberch71. Your GAFL point leader is Daytona 24 winner JoeF, followed by ODUracer21, LIVE2RACE, Waco Racer, and Chevyguy. The race results are here, the current standings are here, and the 6pick excel file is here.

February 9, 2006 - Our own Bill Belanger visited the Krohn shops yesterady, and here's his report.

February 3, 2006 - Well, I finally got Sput's report from Daytona done...it's here. Good work as usual, Dan!

January 30, 2006 - Daytona 24 GAFL Results are posted here! Congrats to JoeF for winning the first race of the season, and the prize from Gainsco/Blackhawk Racing! Finishing second was LIVE2RACE, followed by Chevyguy, MarathonMan, and sjc, finishing the top five.

January 27, 2006 - Here's an Interview with Doug Goad by Rich Hall. Keep checking the forum for more updates throughout the weekend, and there will be people in and out of the chat area all weekend.

January 26, 2006 - For Daytona 24 weekend, keep checking the forums for news, that where our crew on the grounds will be posting when they get a chance. There's already some pictures from Mark Windecker in there.

January 20, 2006 - It's time to launch the 2006 GAFL! Click here for the info on the changes for 2006.

January 19, 2006 - Rich sent in an interview with Zach Arnold of ASC Motorsports here. The debut of the improved garra-fans.com has been put off until next week....but it will be worth your wait!

January 5, 2006 - I wrote a little something for Tommy's Notebook here...and, after I get back from vacation, the new and MUCH improved garra-fans.com will debut! Look for the debut to be January 18th or 19th.

January 4, 2006 - Chad Casey has stepped up and wrote something for us called “Christmas in January” here.

December 21st, 2005 - A couple of our writers have been busy visiting shops to get the inside scoop. Sput visited the Finlay Motorsports and Crawford shops and wrote this report, and Derek visited with the Apple Motorsports team and wrote this report. In case I don't post any more news before Christmas, everyone have a great holiday!

December 13th, 2005 - Here are some pictures that JJ O'Malley took for us at Homestead during Grand American testing.

December 6th, 2005 - Brent Jackson is back, and wrote a little something for us here. Also, our T-Shirts are on sale for Christmas, and we are adding sweatshirts and hats to our product line-up! Click here for details...

December 1st, 2005 - First, here is Rich Hall's debut on garra-fans.com. Second, here's a little something I whipped up...

November 15th, 2005 - Today we have Emma's (Chocmonster) report from Mexico here, and photos here. Enjoy!

November 11th, 2005 - Congrats to RAZOR for winning the 2005 GAFL! And, congrats to DONCASEY for his second place finish, and being the first non-garra-fans.com staff member across the line! (He will be getting a t-shirt and hat for that!) Third was Sput, fourth was Brolzy, and 2004 GAFL champ RobinsonRacer came home fifth. Here is the final standings without race results, and with race results listed.

GTPstarter flogged the field for the Mexico race win over new champ razor, FCYTravis, CKC, and RobinsonRacer.

Also, as it was said on the message board, we have someone new joining us as a writer...Rich Hall (aka richmini99)! I am VERY excited to add him to our esteemed staff of writers. In the coming weeks look for some big changes to this part of the site...that part will go into testing next week for an early December launch.

October 25th, 2005 - More original content today! This time we have Emma Crawley's (Chocmonster) first article for garra-fans.com! Not only is it her first article on here, it's our first article from across the pond! We're going world-wide...

October 24th, 2005 - We have some good stuff today! First, Sput's beating EVERYONE to the punch by writing his 2005 year in review. Second, Derek has an interview with Valerie Limoges. Also, there's some nice behind the scenes stuff going on here...look for more information coming out soon.

October 11th, 2005 - First, here are the GAFL results from the VIR weekend, as well as the standings and 6Pick file. Many people are out of picks on the 10 car now. Congrats to RobK for winning the week! RobinsonRacer and sjc completed the podium. Razor is not far from having the championship locked up with a 950 point lead over the big mover of the week, doncasey and 1000 points over Sput. Speaking of Sput, here's his photos from Saturday and Sunday at VIR. Also, I wanted to mention that the FABCAR Engineering website has been updated today with an update on the Pontiac FABCAR and the 2006 Porsche FABCAR. And finally, I wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU to GTP Activewear for re-upping the sponsorship of this website for another year!

October 3rd, 2005 - Derek tells about his trip to the Porsche and Germany in Cog-zio's Tidbits: A Cog's Trip to Germany!

September 26th, 2005 - GAFL Watkins Glen Round #3 results are up, along with the standings and 6 pick file. Several players are out of cars now, so please check this carefully before picking your VIR cars. Congrats to GTPStarter for putting up a huge number to win this week. I was second followed by DATSON510, Sput, fan09. Also, check out Sput's photos from the Glen here...included are some vintage F1 shots.

September 12th, 2005 - sjc won the GAFL this week, with CKC coming in second, and DMELUZIO22 coming in third. Here's the full rundown, and the season standings. Also, here's my pictures from Mid-Ohio.

September 2nd, 2005 - Here is my Cog Stories from Mid-Ohio, and Derek's interview with Shawn Bayliff. Both are long reads...

August 30th, 2005 - I told you more was coming today! Here is my first artcle from Mid-Ohio...Impressions. While I'm here, I might as well mention that T-Shirts are still for sale!

August 30th, 2005 - Here is the GAFL results from Mid-Ohio...the Race Results, Overall Standings, and the 6 Pick file. There are 4 players with cars at the maximum picks, so make sure you check this out for the next race! Also, later today my coverage will start popping up on here, so keep checking!

August 25th, 2005 - Derek Meluzio has a new Cogzio's Tidbits with Hassel Moran of the new ADi Motorsports here. Also, look for lots of Mid-Ohio coverage next week, as I will be on site. Keep checking the CogZone message board and the CogCafe chat for information, too, in case I scam a computer for a few minutes! Don't forget to post your picks for the GAFL by Midnight central time TONIGHT!! And, one more reminder to buy your 2005 garra-fans.com t-shirts RIGHT HERE!

August 15th, 2005 - Check out the fantasy results from the second Watkins Glen round here, and here's the season standings. Here's the 6 pick file, too.

August 12th, 2005 - T-Shirts, get your T-Shirts! They are now for sale...Click here to Check them out!

August 10th, 2005 - Just some website updates...no content right now. I know, content has been lacking lately, I apologize for that. All I can say is it will be much better for Mid-Ohio! Of the updates. first is the GAFL deadline for Watkins Glen is Thursday at Midnight CST. Secondly, the new shirts will be available starting next week.

August 1st, 2005 - Okay, so I didn't get to a Tommy's Notebook. But with the help of razor, here is the GAFL results for Barber, the Season Standings, and the 6 Pick file.

July 26th, 2005 - Nothing new to post...but look for coverage of Barber coming soon! If I have some time, maybe I'll get out another Tommy's Notebook. :)

July 8th, 2005 - Well, the message board is officially fixed, and all of the links should be correct again. Thank you to everyone for your understanding and kind words this week. Remember, if you were a forum member before the problems, you will need to re-register. I'm sorry for all of the trouble...but at least we got a better looking forum out of it!

July 1st, 2005 - Here are the results from the Daytona 250 round of the GAFL...Race Results, Season Standings, and the new 6 Pick file. Congrats to Chocmonster for winning the race over me (Brolzy) and DATSUN510. For the season, there's a new points leader, I took the lead over razor by 13 points, with DATSUN510, Sput, and doncasey rounding out the top five.

June 29th, 2005 - Derek was at the Porsche Parade in Hershey, PA (one of my favorite places in the world!), and here is his report with pictures...

June 27th, 2005 - Here is MORE EXCLUSIVE coverage of the Tuttle Team Racing's Test by Clifton Winkleman. This time he has an interview with Brian Tuttle and Peter Baron, as well as a couple of pictures of what a Riley cockpit looks like.

June 24th, 2005 - Here is COG EXCLUSIVE coverage of the Tuttle Team Racing's Test at Texas World Speedway by our GAFL Champ, Clifton Winkleman.

June 14th, 2005 - We will have a TON of coverage from Watkins Glen this week. After fixing the problems with the site, I can now update it! The website problems have delayed the debut of The Obin Robinson Collection, the largest collection of Grand American photos on the internet! Click here for instructions on how to view them. In addition to Obin's archives, here are his pictures from Sunday at the Watkins Glen 6 Hour!

Here are Bill Belanger's photos from Watkins Glen...the Rolex 6 Hour is here, and the GAC race is here...

As far as the GAFL, here are the results from the weekend (Congrats to RodAmerica!), and here are the standings. The updated 6 pick sheet is in the GAFL section.

June 8th, 2005 - Lots of stuff today. First, Derek has a Cog-zio's Tidbits with Cory Friedman Autometrics/Farnbacher-Loles Racing. Second, here's this week's edition of Tommy's Notebook. Third, here is the Grand American preview to this weekend's race at Watkins Glen. Finally, the GAFL thread is up to make your picks for the Watkins Glen round.

June 7th, 2005 - Ted Tackett sent in these photos that were taken at a test session at Gingerman Raceway, which are left overs from his article over at lmsr.net. Look for a Pre-Watkins Glen 6 Hour Tommy's Notebook later this week, as well as a bit of organization to this page and a re-work of the menu on the left.

June 6th, 2005 - Derek Meluzio has another Cogzio's Tidbits, this time with Jeff Segal, driver of the Algar Ferrari of Philadelphia/ Empire Paintball Maserati #33 GT car.

June 1st, 2005 - In testing at Summit Point earlier this week, one of the PTG BMW's hit a deer, causing major damage to the car. The driver was okay, but the deer wasn't. Reports say that the car struck the deer and got caught under the car, causing the car to spin. The chassis is reported to be okay, but the front of the car was messed up pretty bad. (from an anonymous source).

May 31st, 2005 - Have the new X-Box game Forza Motorsport, and want to race in an on-line league? Well, we now have one that simulates the Grand Am Cup Series. Check out the new forum for details. Also, I fixed the Post-Mont Tremblant Tommy's Notebook link.

May 27th, 2005 - It's a little late, but here's the Post-Mont Tremblant Tommy's Notebook.

May 24th, 2005 - Bill Belanger sent in his coverage of the Mont-Tremblant 6 hours. Here's his Report, Friday Gallery, Paddock Gallery, and Race Day Gallery. Also, look for a Tommy's Notebook tomorrow.

May 23rd, 2005 - The results for the GAFL Mont-Tremblant round are up here... (race results, standings, 6 Pick Excel file). Congrats to razor for winning the week (even though he was at a different race!), with doncasey finishing second, and DMELUZIO22 rounding out the podium. The GAFL point leader is still DATSUN510, followed by razor, Brolzy, doncasey (the big mover of the week), and Sput. Our 2004 GAFL champion RobinsonRacer is sitting in sixth right now.

May 17th, 2005 - First, the GAFL thread is up for the Mont-Tremblant round here. Second, I have my Tommy's Notebook: Pre Mont-Tremblant edition here. Also, I just did a HUGE update of the Links section, finally.

May 6th, 2005 - Big update today...First, here is Dan Dodge's Laguna Seca Story in Sput's Notes, then John Thompson has THREE galleries for us. (#1 here, #2 here, #3 here)

May 4th, 2005 - I just finshed my post-Laguna Seca edition of Tommy's Notebook...

May 2nd, 2005 - The GAFL standings (race here--season here)have been updated from Laguna Seca...congrats to PatB for winning the race. DATSUN510 finished second and doncasey rounded out the podium. The GAFL Points Leader is DATSUN510, followed by Brolzy, rolex24guy, razor, and then Sput completes the top 5. I also wanted to thank razor for the scoring help (as usual), and for Danske being our chat-master! There were quite a few people in the room on Sunday!

April 26th, 2005 - Dan Dodge has another pre race report for Laguna Seca in Sput's Notes, and the GAFL Laguna Seca thread is posted, too.

April 12th, 2005 - Dan Dodge has pre race report for Laguna Seca in Sput's Notes, and John Thompson sent in more great pictures from Fontana.

April 8th, 2005 - Dan Dodge has a COG exculsive report on Chase in Sput's Notes.

April 6th, 2005 - John Thompson (fan09) took pictures for us at Fontana... click here to see all them!

April 4th, 2005 - Here is the results from Fontana for the GAFL....and here's the season standings. The 6 pick file is on the GAFL page.

March 31st, 2005 - The Fontana GAFL thread was posted earlier this week...so make your picks! You have until midnight on Friday CST.

March 15th, 2005 - Derek has information and artist renderings of Maserati's return to GT in Cog-zio's Tidbits.

March 8th, 2005 - Here is the results from Homestead from the GAFL (along with the results from Daytona) and the overall standings. They are posted in the League section, as well as the 6 Pick Excel file.

February 28th, 2005 - Derek sent in this interview (with pictures!) with Zach Arnold and ASC Motorsports. Also, the thread for the Homestead round of the GAFL is up here. Make your picks by Midnight on Thursday 3/3 CST!

February 22nd, 2005 - Mark Windecker let us show some of his pictures from Daytona...here is a car-by-car collection! there's over 60 pictures in there...

February 18th, 2005 - We've got 2 new Cog-zio's Tidbits from Derek, one with Jeff Segal, and one with David Murray. Also, as you can see above, I'm trying out Google Ads...please click them as many times as possible! :)

February 9th, 2005 - Derek sent in another round of pictures here...

February 8th, 2005 - Our Daytona coverage is ready! Here is Sput's article from Daytona, and here are
Derek's pictures...

February 3rd, 2005 - Mark Sangster sent in his first edition of pictures from Daytona, check it out, same day coverage! You da MAN!!

February 1st, 2005 - Here's the Pre-Daytona 24 edition of Brolzy's Notebook.

January 28th, 2005 - Derek's got more stuff..."901 Shop/Brumos Racing Partner with FRAM Airhog for Rolex 24 and Debut Dynamic New Livery." Click the link for story and picture of the paint scheme!

January 26th, 2005 - Derek Meluzio has another Cog-zio's Tidbits, this time with Rob Stewart of Apple Motorsports.

January 24th, 2005 - Dan Dodge has his "2005 24 Hours at Daytona: Thoughts and preparations by Jacob’s Dad", and here is the Press Release for CB Motorsports and Chase Engineering's run at the 24.

January 20th, 2005 - The rules for the 2005 GAFL have been posted! Will anyone be able to knock of RobinsonRacer as our champ?

January 18th, 2005 - Derek's been a busy man...here's another Cog-zio's Tidbits, this time with Tim Vargo of the #29 Brumos Porsche Fabcar.

January 12th, 2005 - Here is the combined testing times from the Daytona Test Days put together by William Belanger. Also, here some video from Mark Sangster...Video #1, Video #2

January 10th, 2005 - Derek Meluzio has another Cog-zio's Tidbits, this time with Andy Lally.

January 8th, 2005 - We've got Daytona testing notes and pictures from Dan Dodge here, and a PR on the Goldin Brothers team here.

January 6th, 2005 - Derek Meluzio has a Cog-zio's Tidbits with Cory Friedman of Autometrics Motorsports.

January 4th, 2005 - Here is the Interview with Roger Edmondson, Terry Borcheller, Scott Pruett and Max Papis done by Grand American today. Our own Derek Meluzio was on the call, and asked the last question for us.

January 3rd, 2005 - First post of the new year...and this one's a big one. The Cog's own William Belanger has been working on putting together technical information on all of the cars of Grand American. The whole family of the Cognoscenti has pitched in info, and the results is the new and improved Cars Technical section! Click here to see it...

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