Copse is a T1 at Silverstone. I love to watch the F1 cars go through there.
http://www.formula1.com/race/circuitmap/28.html
The track map shows that F1 cars enter this right hand corner at 306 km in
6th gear and exit it at 226 km in 5th pulling 3.1 G's if you go the above
site and put your mouse over the image icon next to the corner you will get
a picture of what the corner looks like.
At 02:07 PM 10/2/2003 -0400, BillDentin@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 10/02/2003 8:47:33 AM Central Daylight Time,
>N197TR4@cs.com writes:
>
>
> > Subj:TR4 SLR Inquiry Asked and Answered
> > Date:10/02/2003 8:47:33 AM Central Daylight Time
> > From:<A HREF="mailto:N197TR4@cs.com";>N197TR4@cs.com</A>
> > To:<A HREF="mailto:BillDentin@aol.com";>BillDentin@aol.com</A>, <A
> HREF="mailto:fot@autox.team.net";>fot@autox.team.net</A>
> > CC:<A HREF="mailto:cj123@ofir.dk";>cj123@ofir.dk</A>
> > Sent from the Internet
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes! Great guy.
> >
> > I have an inquiry to him regarding the whereabouts or disposition of this
> > TR4
> > SLR.
> >
>
>Joe:
>
>Interestingly, Mr. Sprinzel raced one of the 'Sebring Sprites' in the 10th
>National Six Hours Relay Race at Silverstone in August of 1960. This race
>was
>won by the TORNADO CARS team, which was anchored by the Thunder Bolt. An
>article in the 750 Motor Club Newsletter the following month says
>something about,
>"...John Sprinzel was amusing the marshals at Copse by doing a full bore
>drift
>with one hand and eating an apple with the other." There is also a picture
>of him driving a 'Sebring Sprite Coupe', which has just thrown its right rear
>wheel. I am not sure what 'Copse' is, but I suspect a corner, or famous part
>of the circuit.
>
>In my brief meetings with him at ROAD AMERICA, he sure struck me as a
>'regular guy', and very easy to get close to. No one had more fun than he
>did at
>that event.
>
>Bill Thompson knows him quite well.
>
>Bill
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