Coming from Western N.Y. near Buffalo, I'm not to sure about summer in ALL
of August. One year it fell on the 14th at about 2:30PM to almost 5 o'clock.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Moore" <rem9@sunlink.net>
To: <Chasgee@aol.com>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 2:19 PM
Subject: RE: Race Report - SCCA Vintage at Laguna Seca
> 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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