Mark,
Hope you enjoyed our humble little local track and can make it to the
Vintage race the weekend of the VTR gathering in Breckinridge. RMVR
events are generally filled with much, much less contact and, of course,
lots more of the earlier cars.
Hope you can make it,
Bill
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 22:16:36 -0600 (MDT) Mark J Bradakis
<mjb@autox.team.net> writes:
> Earlier this evening I got back home after a few days at Second Creek
> in
> Colorado, doing a bit of crew work for a local fellow running his
> Club Ford
> at an SCCA double regional. In truth, it is Bob Allred, who's on
> the FOT list
> by virtue of planning on getting a Spitfire out on the vintage
> circuit. And
> yes, the Team.Net server kissed the turf saturday, seemingly knowing
> I was
> not around to fix it.
>
> This was the first time in about a quarter of a century that I
> attended an
> SCCA regional, the previous time being a corner worker at an event
> on a track
> which no longer exists here in Salt Lake.
>
> Things were a bit different than the various vintage events I've
> attended over
> the last few years. The third run group consisted of small bore
> sedans and
> sports cars, like 16 Spec RX7s, a gaggle of Spec Miatas, a handful
> of various
> Improved Touring cars, and even a Legends racer. Saturday Bob and I
> watched
> their race, it was pretty entertaining. Bob has run Spec 7 before,
> and his
> car was out on the track with the new owner.
>
> It was fun to watch, with a bit of incidental contact here and
> there, and a
> number of exciting dices among the various clusters of cars. I was
> somewhat
> amused by the debris flag in Turn 1 being displayed due to a
> complete Miata
> rear bumper assembly laying in the middle of the track.
>
> Sunday morning at the driver's meeting, the SOM had a few words to
> say about
> racing not being intended as a contact sport. His words fell on
> deaf ears.
> The Group 3 race that afternoon saw a black flag all, as the steward
> felt he
> had to reel in the drivers for an ass chewing. They seemed to have
> gone
> from incidental contact to malice aforethought, and were all
> directed into
> the pits and out of their cars. It was pretty amazing, something I
> had not
> expected to see. I'm used to more genteel contests of speed.
>
> Maybe I won't work on an E Production TR7, I'll just stick with
> autocrossing
> and IVR events in my various Spits!
>
> mjb.
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