rodbean@earthlink.net wrote:
> Oh sorry to hear that you didn't get to drive. Well, the team's the thing in
>an
> enduro. That's really quite amazing that a Six (Ford flathead four?) went
>that
> distance. Somebody must have done his homework in building the engine.
There were four cars because this was a team relay race. One was an 1172, but I
don't know what the engines were in the others. My own Six didn't take part
because it's hanging from the garage rafters :-(
> > no troubles. No accidents, not even a spin. That helped a lot with
> > our finishing position because many teams lost cars.
>
> I hope you don't mean that they lost cars forever... as in crash into a ball.
There was a "Clubmans" car that had crunched every corner.....
> > BTW, there was a team entirely Elans (type 26, 36, 45), another of Lotus
> > Sevens, including a couple of S4s, several teams of Caterhams, and a single
> > Esprit V8, but I don't know what team he was in.
> How did the Elans do?
I'm not sure, they were named the "Betty Swollocks Sextet", with Nick Adams, an
engineer at Lotus, as the one driver I know in the team. I think they were
6th overall, but I don't have a copy of the results. I expect a good write-up
in _Autosport_ tommorow, because Marcus Pye, the UK editor, was a member of the
team that won on scratch.
Hmmm, looking at the handicap times, the quickest Six was expected to get
round
in 1:30, and the Elans were all 1:28 or 1:29! That that must be a damn quick
Six because those Elans were all fully stripped-out race-spec. In fact, in
the rain, I think our fastest lap was around 1:45.
> You know, that is a great idea, having teams of like
> vintage cars. What a pleasure it would be to drive an Elan as part of a team
>of
> Elans against teams made up of different cars. Did the cars have to be
>stock? If
> not, how modified could they be?
I think they are to mid-1960's rules. Basically, the body has to look standard,
and everything else has to be production-based. You are not allowed to slip
a single-seater chassis under the old body.
Hey, next year there's talk that it will be for 12 hours at Silverstone in June.
If you fancy a ride let me know & I can certainly put you in touch with the
Elan guys.
And if the lottery comes up maybe I'll be entering in my Six ....
Mike
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