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Re: Just a reminder.

To: "Greg Hare" <ghare@bellsouth.net>, <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Just a reminder.
From: "Paul" <9laser3@bright.net>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 09:25:20 -0400
Greg,

  Good point!  That is exactly why I got my son started in autocross!  No
stop signs, no traffic, and hopefully, no pedestrians!

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Hare <ghare@bellsouth.net>
To: 'Paul' <9laser3@bright.net>; <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 9:19 AM
Subject: RE: Just a reminder.


> I guess I'm getting old, but I never push even a NEW car "to the limits"
> on the street. All you need's a blowout or something and blammo! Into a
> light post or whatever.
>
> That's why there ARE tracks!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Paul
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:13 AM
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Just a reminder.
>
>   Just a reminder you those of you that drive your roadsters hard; you
> are
> driving 30 year old steel.  Saturday, on the race track with Sloan
> Racing,
> Cathy Ann snapped her rear axel.  We were very fortune that the car
> traveled
> straight ahead while digging up some pavement until it came to a stop
> just
> short of the corner workers station.  The tire, wheel, & brake drum went
> for
> a fly into the woods.  Thankfully nobody was hurt and the car was
> repaired
> and back on the track by Sunday morning!  But you may want to think
> twice
> before pushing your roadster to the limits out on the streets.
>
> Paul
> Sloan Racing
> OROC
> BTW, Jim Sloan took first in class both races this weekend.  And better
> yet,
> ... we all had fun!  And if you're wondering, both Jim and Cathy Ann
> (father/daughter) race 1966(?) 1600 roadsters in SCCA G Production.  Jim
> has
> been racing roadsters for over 19 years and Cathy Ann has been racing
> since
> she was 17!  OROC supplies most of the crew: Chris Luers, Teddy
> Seidenfeld,
> Ralf Bradley, and me!
>
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