I will gladly second Jari's nomination. He has been a dedicated Spit racer in
The frozen north of Europe for several years!
Joe (C)
Jim Hill wrote:
>
> I'd like to nominate Jari Tabell to membership in the FOT list.
>
> Jari runs a Triumph Spitfire in vintage racing events in Finland. In fact,
> he drives the ONLY road-racing Triumph in Finland, although there's a very
> active vintage racing series there (which you can check out--in either
> English or Finnish--at http://www.historicrace.fi/.
>
> I first ran into Jari by email when I was contemplating a trip to Finland
> and he was most helpful in providing a wealth of information. More recently,
> unfortunately, his racing season has been ended by (guess what?) a rear
> hub/axle failure. I'll leave it to him to explain the nature of the failure
> and the modification limits of preparing a car to strict FIA Appendix K
> standards.
>
> You can see Jari's beautifully prepared Spitfire 4 (Mk 1) on his own vintage
> racing page at http://personal.inet.fi/koti/jtabell/.
>
> May I have a second for my fellow Finn and Triumph racer, Mr. Tabell?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Hill
> Madison WI
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