They researched MGAs there?
Naw. Course was at Lake Geneva Speedway, a 1/3-mile paved oval with a
dragstrip running lengthwise through it.
Course started on one end of the dragstrip, turned left onto the oval,
halfway around we went back up the dragstrip and then left again onto the
other side of the oval, halfway around and up the far end of the dragstrip
to the finish. Of course, a lot of wiggly autocrossy stuff on each section.
The track has a high concrete wall where we ran the first part of the oval.
It was drizzly and a couple cars got loose and made it to the wall (ow!).
The finish was a long banzai run -- the only Nationals where I recall
getting into 4th gear with my DP (EP then, GP next year) Spitfire. Trophied
4th and later discovered I'd done it on (another!) broken axle.
That was, actually, the first Nationals for my Spitfire (drove a GS Pinto in
the inaugural event in '73). It has competed in every one since and is the
only car that can claim that.
--Rocky
----- Original Message -----
From: "philip ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
To: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>
Cc: "philip ethier" <pethier@isd.net>; "Gregg Lee" <gregglee@htcomp.net>;
<autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: Origin of Chicago boxes
> On Dec 30, 2005, at 6:33 PM, Rocky Entriken wrote:
>> I don't recall the color-coded cones at Gurnee, but I remember them at
>> Chicago Region's first Nationals in 1974 at Lake Geneva -- powder blue
>> pylons!
>
> Lake Geneva? Did you use the MGA Research Center in Burlington?
>
> Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
> 1962 TR4 CT2846L, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1993 Suburban, 1994 Miata
> C package
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