Negative on the confused. The Golden Gate National Tour, sponsored by an
Asian tire company, was held April April 24-25, 1993 at Crows Landing. I
have two first place trophies hanging on my wall from that event. One is
for me in ESP and the other is for Marcella in ESPL.
Pat Kelly wrote:
>
> 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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