I know we hosted a Pro at Crows, but am not aware of a Tour. I think youi're
confused. :)
--Pat K
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>From: Kenneth Allan Mitchell <nokones@kenmitchell.com>
>To: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>
>Cc: "BayArea Team.Net" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Nat Tour @ Castle
>Date: Mon, May 6, 2002, 5:11 PM
>
> John:
>
> This may be our first National Tour at Castle but its not the first
> National Tour conducted by our region. Our region conducted/hosted a
> National Tour about 10 years ago at Crows Landing.
>
> "John F. Kelly Jr." wrote:
>>
>> Our first-ever SCCA National Tour event at Castle Field in Atwater, CA,
>> came off extremely well.
>> There were 276 entries, however, not everybody made it to the
>> event.
>> The weather was sunny and breezy.
>> The concrete surface had a light layer of concrete dust on it
>> through which the first run group cleared an 8-ft. wide swath each morning.
>>
>> I'm sure we'll hear/read about other aspects of this event from
>> people who were there and even from people who weren't. <G>
>> My own experience was generally positive but dealing with the
>> scales caised more than a bit of grief on several competitors, including
>> Frank Stagnaro in C Prepared and Jim Tikijian in D Prepared. Frank's car
>> was 4 pounds under his minimum. He was assessed a two-second time penalty
>> and came back to win the class. Jim was about 25 pounds under in his 1098cc
>> Spridget and they gave him the slowest time in class plus a two-second
>> penalty.
>> After Pat's Sunday runs our Lotus 7A--packing over 210 additional
>> pounds of ballast!-- weighed in just one (1) pound over the minimum. Whew.
>> For my runs two run groups later I stashed five (5) pounds of tools (Silver
>> tape and nylon ties held it together) into the back of the car. When
>> weighed the car was now at 1212 pounds. Where the other six pounds came
>> from is a mystery. Jim's penalty moved me to second in DP, only 5.5 seconds
>> behind Chris Kannan. The "equalizer Ballast mandated by the SEB certainly
>> did its job. Chris Kannan loaned his class-winning Honda to Paula Whitney
>> who was second after Saturday but she felt ill on Sunday and didn't drive.
>> Jeanne's Wienies provided/sold hot dogs and ran out! The Jesus
>> Villarreal dinner party under the wing of an air museum's aircraft was a
>> great social gathering.
>>
>> --John Kelly
>
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> Kenneth Allan Mitchell
> mailto:nokones@kenmitchell.com
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