Toyota Race of Legends

-August 19, 2008

The 35th Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races presented by Toyota got off to a great start with the Scion Legends race for charity. The lineup of drivers included last year's winner, Derek Bell, along with former F1 and sports car racers like Eddie Cheever, Danny Sullivan, Johnny Herbert, Alan Jones, John Watson, Jean-Pierre Jarier, Patrick Tambay, and Alain de Cadenet, as well as current Toyota racer, Timo Glock. In all honesty it seemed like this was a joke to all the drivers and announcers. But, compared to some of the race machines there, the tC was nothing more than a pit car.


Final finishing order below with qualifying position in parentheses:

1st Timo Glock (10th)
2nd Jean-Pierre Jarier (4)
3rd Eddie Cheever (2)
4th Johnny Herbert (6)
5th Derek Bell (3)
6th Patrick Tambay (#
7th Bruce Canepa (1)
8th John Watson (11)
9th Alan Jones (5)
10th Danny Sullivan (9)
11th Alain de Cadenet (7)

I found nice spot right near the Mario Andretti hair pin which made for some great photos.



I spoke with a few of the techs and found out modifications done to these cars:
-TRD Supercharger with custom flash
-Stoptech Front BBK, OEM rears
-TRD rear sway
-“Adjustable Coilovers” Here is where they would not get specific. They told me that they were not TRD’s. They looked like Progress, but I am not 100% sure.
-All safety requirements including roll cage with integrated harness bar, fuel cut off, battery cut off, etc.



These Scion tC’s were all over the track which made for exciting racing. As the old saying goes “rubbing is racing”. Here is some of the damage that occurred from the friendly race after 8 laps :