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Subject: [Fot] The Kastner Cup event
From: dlhogye at comcast.net (DAVE HOGYE)
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 15:28:56 -0700 (PDT)
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Thank you for this message, Kas.  

Congratulations to Jim Dolan.  Hip hip hooray!  

Thanks to Shawn Frank for keeping us in suspense with his North American 
Triumph FaceBook updates, photos and video. 

It looked like an all around fantastic event.  I wished I was there.  

I can hardly wait to see some in-car video.

Dave H.

> On July 8, 2018 at 12:42 PM Kas Kastner via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
>     The weather tried to outlast us but failed as Saturday, Cup Day, turned 
> out terrific.  No Rain No Snow or tornados or other wild things or animals 
> interfering with great racing.
> 
>     Sam Halkais entered my TR-6 from the olden days  showing off the Triumph 
> multi  blue & white colors from 1972. Sam had a hard time for a bit to fix 
> something not working in the inlet system. He did find and throw out the 
> gremlin just in time for the K Cup race and zapped off into the distance to 
> win the race overall.
> 
>     The Kastner Cup though is not awarded to just the fastest Triumph. 
> Outstanding effort , preparation and service in the Vintage Triumph scene are 
> part of the boxes to be checked off. It was a very close call for the winner 
> of the Cup.
> 
>     The GT-6 cars have been in a secret breeding mode as there were a ton of 
> them there and racing. After  24 minutes of high speed chase and pass  and 
> re-pass between Tony Drews TR-4, the GT-6 of Scott Jansen and the GT-6 of 
> Kastner Cup Chairmen for this race, Jim Dolan,  at the end Jim Dolan kept it 
> all together and squeezed out a clear victory for the class and to win the 
> Kastner Cup.
> 
>     Congratulation to Jim Dolan for a great drive and very well prepared GT-6 
> racer and indeed for all the care and effort he made for the 16th Kastner Cup 
> event.
> 
>     Thanks to all the racers for bringing your great cars to this annual 
> event.  It was big fun for Peg and I and we hope to see a great number of you 
> next years 17th  Kastner Cup in May 2019 at  Buttonwillow Raceway in 
> California. Event Chairmen Ken Knight (a Kastner Cup winner) is working hard 
> right now to bring off our next annual Triumph event. 
> 
> 
> 
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