Rick,
All this brings to mind the one time John entered the 7 in a Pro and was
lumped together with Larry and the Corvette. It was raining; we had rain tires,
Larry didn't. On the first set of runs, our little 7 had a 20 plus second lead
over Larry. Picture that. Then, the sun came out, and our moment of glory was
gone.
--Pat Kelly
P.S. And, yes, we are lumped in with GT1 Corvettes in the new AP.
Rick Brown wrote:
> John Kelly wrote:
>
> >Our beloved SEB has already created a NEW A Prepared class that
> >welcomes such interesting cars as Rick Brown's semi-tube-frame Corvette
> >w/600hp. The good news there is he'll have Jim McKamey's Triumph TR8 to
> run
> >against. Me?, I'll be there too.
>
> John,
>
> We were as surprised as anybody seeing you could run a Corvette in AP now.
> Unfortunately, with a genuine stock frame under all our tubes we're way over
> minimum weight for AP even with no ballast. I'll keep the car in BP, thank
> you very much.
>
> A real tube frame Corvette that can get closer to the minimum weight+10%
> tube frame tax with good weight distribution would be interesting in AP. We
> don't have that at our 2560 pounds with no ballast. Maybe Jim thinks he has
> the Triumph equivalent of this.
>
> We'll see if we can beat Randy in BP in our "semi" tube frame BP car that
> weighs 900 pounds more than his RX-7. Maybe for ballast we'll bolt in an
> obsolete non-snowmobile A-mod car for the 900 pounds. Jim McKamy probably
> has one lying around.
>
> Good luck with Jim's TR-8 in AP. Maybe you should lobby for getting the
> seven into BP ;-)
>
> Rick Brown
> BP (AP, whatever) Corvette
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