Thanks Michael!
I've passed your news on to the Sprite Club of Australia email list - many
of them were curious as to how the Australian Sprite drivers (Bruce Miles &
Wendy Gibbs) and the rest of the Australian Helaey contingent were going.
Best
Chris Dimmock
----- Original Message -----
From: <Awgertoo@aol.com>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Cc: <caahc@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 9:30 AM
Subject: Results from Summit Point/AUHC
> Today was another wonderful Austin-Healey day at Summit Point. We were
> gifted with great weather and wonderful racing.
>
> There were 23 cars that started in the afternoon's featured All-Healey
> race--two Sprites, one Speedwell Sprite, one Silverstone, two 100 S's, six
> 100's and
> the balance sixes.
>
> Jeff Johnk had the pole and held the lead for about the first 8-9 laps
> with
> Paul Freestone right on his heels. The lead switched just before the pit
> straight and stayed that way to the end. Peter Jackson, Tim Pyne, Rob
> Rowland,
> John Moore and George Olsen comprised a second group that ran a distance
> back
> from the leaders and they finished in the above order. Geoff Leake, Grant
> Gongoll (ist Sprite) and Bruce Miles rounded out the first ten finishers.
> Jeff
> Johnk had the fastest Healey lap time (1:29.592)--Paul Breakstone's best
> lap was
> about 1/2 second slower.
>
> Class awards were as follows--
>
> 100 Race Prepared: Vars Smith first and John Giller second.
> 100 Race Modified: Jeff Leake first.
> 100 S: Fred Fisher first and John Ashby second.
> Healey Special: Allen Casavant first (Silverstone).
> 3000 Race Prepared: John Moore first and Dan Powell second.
> 3000 Race Modified: Paul Freestone first and Peter Jackson second.
> 3000 Extreme Race Modified: Jeff Johnk first.
> Sprite under 1100 cc: Dan Leonard first.
> Sprite under 1300 cc: Graham Gongoll first and Bruce Miles second.
>
> As a footnote, there were about 15-20 Healeys from the local community at
> the
> race and during the noon break we were given the opportunity to run a
> special
> parade lap on the track before other marques were allowed on--it was a
> very
> cool event and I was glad to be there.
>
> Dan Leonard is shown as a DNF after six laps--I saw him head into the pits
> with a lot of white smoke but I do not know any more. Richard Mayor
> apparently
> spun some bearings in yesterday's practice sessions and is shown as a DNS
> along with Jim Smith who cracked a block.
>
> Looking forward to VIR!
>
> Best--Michael Oritt
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