A snake being flipping into your car is reason enough to engineer and install
an ejector seat. Yikes!
Mike
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> On Jul 30, 2024, at 11:35â?¯AM, Kenneth Knight via Fot <fot@autox.team.net>
> wrote:
>
> If only Russell had picked that up at Spa in the F1 race the car would
> have made weight and he would have kept his win! Ken
>
>> On 7/29/2024 7:00 PM, finishing Touch via Fot wrote:
>> The lighter side of racing:
>>
>> Sunday during the Pittsburgh Historic medium bore sprint race, I was racing
>> down the back stretch in my TR6 when I saw a car in front of me kick up a
>> piece of rubber (marble) and it was coming my way. My natural reaction was
>> to blink and I heard it hit my car. I thought nothing more of it until I
>> went to look at my dash mounted rear view mirror which was now turned
>> sideways. On the next lap at the end of the front straight away, I
>> navigated the hard left hand turn and pushed the throttle which wouldn't
>> fully open. Glancing down, I saw this piece of rubber on the floor wedged
>> under the throttle pedal. Fortunately after breaking and taking the next a
>> hard left, it became dislodged and I was able to finish the race with normal
>> controls. What are the odds of that?
>>
>> It's the biggest 'marble' I ever captured and is now just another keepsake
>> for my racing display case.
>>
>> Mike Kurtz
>> Yellow TR6 #51
>>
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