The BMW wasn't multiple seconds ahead of everybody, either!!
It is just a good FP car - well driven, I might add, from what I have
heard. Isn't that what this sport is all about?? Not who has access
to the most exotic racing machine. (Most of us in AP/FP can't
compete on a $250,000 playing field!!)
Yeah, I know Peter and David - - and I know their background.
Thus the :-). I see them several times a year, normally, they attend
our Divisionals and National warm-ups here in Oklahoma. (Ask
them to bring you along next year). We do chat about the class - to
length, sometimes - and we share a lot of the same opinions. Peter
is every bit as opinionated, even more-so I think than I am. But both
he and David are competitors first and foremost, and good drivers.
I would like to think I can call them friends.
Unfortunately, I generally have to pit next to them - both at Nationals
and at Divisionals. Doesn't Midas have any shops in Texas?? :-)
G
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Tom_Holt <tholt@starlight.us.dell.com> wrote:
> For what it's worth the Tri Point BMW would be an FP car.
>
> Actually I don't remember a single protest in AP or FP in Texas in the
> six or so years I have been there. Peter Fehn told me that his protest of
> the Porsche was his first ever protest at Nationals (maybe anywhere). As
far
> as I know David Butler has never filed any protest either. Robert Huffman
is
> new to the class. Topeka was his first complete event in his 914-6 (he
won
> a $100 bet for completing all 6 runs). He's been around the Solo scene for
> years in other classes, but I don't know him well enough to comment on his
> protest experiences.
> I know Peter spotted the belly pan first. He told me and then told his
> other friends knowing it was technically illegal. Huffman wrote it up.
> We're generally an easy going bunch.... Well, Peter IS always
bitching
> about something, but the protests are few and far between and the
> competition is about as strong and deep as you will find in any division.
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