Then again, I may be confused...we put on our first pro at Milpitas, I
think. :) The old Ford plant, now gone. We did a pro at GGF, and Crows.
There may have been a Tour, but I'm not really sure when the Tour program
was fired up. Pros have been around much longer.
--Pat K
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>From: "Pat Kelly" <lollipop487@attbi.com>
>To: nokones@kenmitchell.com, "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, 5:17 PM
>
> I know we hosted a Pro at Crows, but am not aware of a Tour. I think youi're
> confused. :)
> --Pat K
>
> ----------
>>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
>>
>> --
>> Kenneth Allan Mitchell
>> mailto:nokones@kenmitchell.com
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