Everyone who like cars one time or another have dreamed of becoming a race car driver, but very few of these dreams are ever materialized in real life. I am an admirer of Hank's racing dream come true. Besides all the track events there was the Porsche club race where he placed 3 rd in his class and won the rookie of the event award and later many 1st place finishes in all the PCA clud races. Racing takes discipline, hard work, concentration, practices, and most importantly a deep pocket. (or to think like you do) Over the last several month I have been following Hank around to watch him race. During these events I tried to take as many pictures as possible and the selected pictures on the following page is something I compiled for everyone's viewing pleasure. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do.
Robin
List of Hank's current racing results
| October | 1999 | Road Atlanta PCA club race | - Stock C class 3rd place finish | 1:43.51 best lap time, Rookie of the event award |
| December | 1999 | Roebling Road PCA club race | - Stock C class 1st place finish | 1:21.96 best lap time, Novice of the race award |
| March | 2000 | Road Atlanta SCCA ECR ITB class | - BMW 2002 6th place finish | |
| April | 2000 | Road Atlanta PCA club race | - Stock C class 1st place finish | 1:38.60 best lap time |
| September | 2000 | Roebling Road club race | - GT2 class 2nd place finish | 1:19.6 best lap time, Novice of the race award |
| September | 2000 | Speedvision World challenge GT | - GT class 23rd finish | 1:37.757 best lap time |
| October | 2000 | CMP PCA club race | - GT2 class, DQ | 1:44.9 best lap time |
| April | 2001 | Road Alanta PCA club race | - Stock C class 1st place finish | 1:39 best lap time |
| May | 2001 | Mid Ohio PCA club race | - GTC class third in class and 18th overall | 1:38.6 best lap time |
| Oct | 2001 | Speedvision World challenge GT race 9 | - GT class 20th finish | 1:40.143 best lap time (Spec tire Toyo Proxies) |
| Oct | 2001 | Speedvision World challenge GT race 10 | - GT class 16th finish | 1:39.745 best lap time (Spec tire Toyo Proxies) |
| March | 2002 | PBOC race at Road Atlanta | - R2R class 1st place overall finish | 1:35.1 best lap time (qualified 1:34) |
| April | 2002 | Road Atlanta PCA club race | - GTC2 class 1st place finish in class, 10th overall | 1:33.1 best lap time (qualified time 1:32.5) |
Click on the thumbnail to see a larger higher resolution picture.
I like this picture
because it reminded me of scenes from war movies where the pilots were
strapped in their fighter plane before the big battle. In this picture
Hank strapped himself in his car before the big club race.
This is a picture
of Hank's 993 with the MO30 suspension. Picture taken at Roebling
Road in Savannah.
This was also taken
at Roebling Road, in this picture Hank is on the straight getting ready
for turn 1.
Another Roebling
picture, this one is somewhere on turn 3. Same place where he span
out with me in the car later during the day.
Still at Roebling
Road, but don't remember what turn this was taken at.
Hank lining up at
Roebling. Picture taken from the observation tower.
Hank and Rick standing
by their race machine while watching other racers going by on the track.
Here is a close
up picture of Hank and Rick.
Famous Hank Cohn
words "when you can't cut down your lap time anymore hire a professional
driver to teach you" in this picture professional race car driver Joe XXXXX
giving Hank his private lesson.
Above are some good
pictures of Hank on the front straight at Road Atlanta.
These pictures were
taken at turn 3 at Road Atlanta
Turn 10 Road Atlanta
Hank pulling into
pits after he got tired of posing for these pictures.
Hank's
993 RS project
