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Re: GT6+ racing heritage

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Subject: Re: GT6+ racing heritage
From: "Chris Kantarjiev" <cak@godzilla.studio.sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 11:01:56 -0800 "triumphs@autox.team.net digest #28 Wed Nov 1 02:35:19 MST 1995" (Nov 1, 2:35am)
References: <199511010935.CAA08076@triumph.cs.utah.edu>
"Triumph sweeps E Production and wins F Production in the Champions'
Championships."

So says an ad that Triumph ran after the GT6+ took 1/2/3 in the 1969 SCCA
national championships class EP (home of 914s and MGBs, among others). The
Group 44 car, driven by Mike Downs, was the winner. This was a more-or-less
factory effort; Group 44 and the factory certainly exchanged lots and lots of
data, although Quaker State was the major sponsor of Group 44 in those days.

A GT6+ won the championship again in 1970. In 1971, SCCA bumped the car to DP
(because it was dominating EP) where it got to compete against carbureted TR6s,
Datsuns and Jensen-Healeys, and didn't really have a chance - although it did
win some races.

I've heard tales that Group 44 spent upwards of $10K reengineering the rear end
so that it worked well...

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