Bill, I saw your car on Friday while I was doing my novice thing and never
saw you after that. I walked around the pits a couple of times and couldn't
find it, I even walked through the grass area where the TR3 and Rover TC was
at. I was driving the red 69 TR6 #44, this was my first racer and had a
great time.
On Friday I had a couple of sessions running with the TR4A of Jeff Quick's
(great name) and had great fun running with him. My car is still kinda
tight on the new motor, about 1 1/2 hours on it before I got to the track,
tuning it etc. It also seems to not have the timing set right on it and I'm
going to try to work on that a little.
The car seemed to handle decently, a little loose in 3a & b though. I'm
running on street tires and am planning to get some better tires very soon.
My right rear tire was getting pretty warm, about 103 degrees, compared to
the others @ about 90 degrees.
I was running in group 2 and getting passed by the B's, Alfa's and
practically everything but the VW and Imp! Oh well I'm just getting used to
the car and the track and breaking it in yet. I'm planning on going to the
Spring sprints and to Mission in May, I'm just trying to get some track time
in right now. I didn't have a transponder, but the fellow in my crew said I
ran a best time of about 2:02, not very impressive, but learning, what the
heck!
I attached a picture of the car, its not quite done yet, but was good
enough to run in the Novice day and defrost. Does anybody know of where I
could get a preformed plexi type windscreen? I'm looking for the low
profile type something like the Group 44 TR6 ran in 69. I've got a piece of
Lexan and was planning on shaping it my self if necessary, but would rather
have something already done if it's reasonable.
Charly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: "''Friends of Triumph ' '" <FOT@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 2:26 PM
Subject: Peyote Rocks!!
> I drove Peyote in the Sovern "defrost kickoff" this weekend. Had a great
> time. the new limited slip diff is wonderful--I could drive hard out of
> corners that I previously tiptoed through looking for traction. The bump
> steer elimination project also paid great dividends, though at first I was
> disappointed. In the first practice I still found the nasty kink and bump
> near the end of the front straight at Pacific raceways was still
> upsetting the car a lot. But I finlly figured out that it was still a
> bump, and I was trying to compensate for the wiggle I got banging over it
> at high speed. I relaxed and held the wheel with just my fingertips, and
> the car tracked perfectly straight. The steering input was coming from ME
> not the suspension travel.
>
> I think I've done better lap times at Pacific, but probably not during the
> first race of the year. I can't find my lap times from last year for the
> new course. My qualifying time was 1:44:something which was about three
> seconds a lap faster than second place. After three laps in the race I
> lifted and waved the guy in second past--he's got a Healy 3000. So I
> played cut and thrust until the last lap, and then decided to do a fast
> lap for time and just ran away.
>
> Second race I asked to start from the back so I could have some fun. I
> didn't want to just charge through, so I hung out in the back for the
> first lap to let all the cars spread out and settle down, then I ran
> through them. I got up to the top three after about four laps--a Lotus 11,
> a Elva, and the big healey. Passed them, then waved the first two past and
> chased them awhile and finally repassed them. I meant to wave them past
> for the last lap since it doesn't feel right to push the heck out of them
> with a far faster car and then blithely take the win, but I must have
> miscounted the laps. I passed the transponder wire in first and waved them
> past only to see the checker at the flag station. Ah well, at least they
> got the checker first if not the official win.
>
> I need to get them to move me up a group or two, though when the Poopers
> are at the track I have a race on my hands in this group. My time would
> still have taken first in the Historic class and would have been top five
> in the sports racers and formula cars and third in the big bore against a
> raft of cobras. What a car!
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