Well, this weekend I was fortunate enough to
be given some passes to watch a few friends race in
the SCCA Regional Nationals up at Sears Point Raceway.
I don't have time for a full race report, but I can pop
off some of the Highlights;
-Best Big Noi$e: a very pretty early Capri losing
something in a big way right in front of the
grandstands. Later in the pits we looked at a largish
hole in the floorboard where a portion of clutch came
thru, severing brake lines in the process. We also
noted complete *absence* of transmission ! The clutch
had come off of the flywheel, shattering the
bellhousing, at which point the tranny dropped out of
the bottom, right in front of one of my friends ! The
bad noise had been the driveshaft beating around while
he coasted to a stop.
-Best (or worst shunt): In the Showroom Stock class a
car lost it's engine on the back straight, and dumped
a load of oil in the process. First car thru this mess
was a new Camaro which promptly looped it & went head-on
into the tire wall. This group was so big and running
so close that 4 more cars then piled up in a chain reaction.
The grand finale was a very colourful Miata that was not
able to slow in time and hit the whole tangle going
quite fast, catapulting it up and over several times,
and finally landing rightside up *on* the tire wall.
Luckily, no-one was hurt, but some VERY bent cars.
-LBCs': A gaggle of impossibly fast Sprites, several
Spitfires, a lone Mini, an Austin-America, a beautiful
an fast Jensen-Healey that suddenly began emitting
plumes of white smoke, Victim's MGB that relieved
itself of it's entire exhaust system after an off-road
excursion, Sam's (thanks for the tickets) starter-less
MGB, and of course, the other Fizzballer (ask him)
Larry Colen's On-Two-Wheels Cortina, that I had the
dubious honor of changing tires on in order to earn my
keep.
All in all a very enjoyable way to spend a Sunday.
cheers-
dstone@sc9.intel.com
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