RACING Report!!???
Hell, I'm sitting here watching the snow fall! Just barely got all the toys
put away in time. We have to hibernate for 6 months out of the year up north
in upstate New York. Canada's worse yet, just 2 seasons, August and winter!
Russ Moore
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Chasgee@aol.com
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:21 PM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Race Report - SCCA Vintage at Laguna Seca
Hello FOT,
We had a great time at Laguna Seca last weekend! The weather was great,
people were friendly, and the track was a whole lot of fun. San Francisco
SCCA really knows how to run an event. The corner workers were teriffic and
we were on time all weekend!
A bunch of us So Cal Triumph guys made the trek, including Paul Smock, John
Frymark, Alan Mzutani, Alan Weins, and Vince DePalma. Also in our pits were
some lesser cars (MG and Elva), but the people were so nice we decided to
let them stay anyway.
Saturday morning John Frymark led us around the track (he had raced there
before) and after some excellent instruction and evaluation, he decided that
we could continue racing with him the rest of the weekend. Thanks John!:)
We were all in group 2 which was a little strange, the group included
everything from a TR6, Ginetta, and Cortina to a Spitfire 1147. We did well
in Saturday's race: The TR4s and my Spit were gridded in the top 20 for the
race on Sunday. We only had a couple of problems on Saturday. Alan Ms
Spitfire puked a clutch disk and Vince and Alan Ws Spitfires were too loud.
Not surprising because if you knew Vince and Alan, you know that they are
always cheating to try to get some sort of advantage! :). After removing a
few Supertrapp disks here and stuffing mufflers there, both met the noise
requirement for the rest of the weekend. Alan M also fixed his cluch to get
him back out for Sunday.
Sunday was beautiful without a cloud in the sky. The track was oily for our
race so the first lap was interesting. Porsches spinning in oil made it
very exciting. Funny how they are always doing that. Anyway, after all was
said and done, the TR6 of Tom Kreger (Vancouver, Washington) won the race!
The next Triumph was 8th, my Spitfire, passed at the line (I blew the last
turn) by a Mini. John Fs Tr4 was 14th and Paul Smock 19th. The best part
was that all but one of the Triumphs were running at the end of the race.
Alan M couldn't quite lick his clutch problems. It didn't help that someone
ran into the back of his car either.
In celebration of our sucess, the Angels decided to win the World Series. A
race weekend doesn't get much better than this one, and I was very happy to
have been there.
Next stop VARA in Vegas the weekend after next. Can't wait!
Chuck GeeSpitfire #14
"One moment of racing is better than a life time of spectating."
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