Are there more of us Spitfires racing here in the northern latitudes?
There are quite a few Spitfires around here - not as many as there are
Spridgets, but still a good number of us.
Scott B.
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From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Jim
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:40 PM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: [Fot] Why the dearth of Spitfire vintage racers?
Just got back from a weekend of vintage racing with the Corinthians
Vintage
Auto Racing group as the new track near Dallas (Eagle Canyon Raceway)
and
one burning question popped into mind:
What's the ratio of Spitfires vs Austin Healey Sprite/MG Midgets in
vintage
racing?
In CVAR there's a gent named Roger Williams that originated a "Spec
Sprite"
class in CVAR, (basically a post 1970 Spriget bodyshell with barely
warmed
over 1275 and a $35 Firestone spec tire) and directly built a bunch and
encouraged others to build more. Those cars have bounced between FP and
Spec Sprite over the last 10 years depending upon owner's budget and
willingness to be honest. So that may skew the numbers a tad.
This weekend there were roughly 12 Spridgets (8 FP and 4 Spec Sprite)..
And
only 1 Spitfire in FP. In 15 years I've only ever seen 4 different
Spitfires (3 round tail and 1 squaretail "Mk IV" ;) and never witnessed
more
than one Spitfire running at a time.
On the flip side, if I counted cars using Spitfire (ok, Herald) based
front
suspensions the ratio gets turned over, when you condider the Loti, FF,
and
token TVRs that show up from time to time.
Back to the subject line, is it purely the rear swing axle/diff issue?
Cheers,
Jim
Dallas
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