Thanks John....If I didnt already mention it, I really enjoy these
reports and will try to catch up with a few of my own.
On another note:
Long term, I am hoping to add some value to your trip here next June for
the VTR convention at Winona. There are several FOT members who will
make good candidates for coming to this event, who are involved
competively with Triumphs.
Bill Burroughs
Bob Wismer
Irv Korey
Bob Kramer
Roger Bolick
Jack Drews
Pete Fullam
JiM Hill
Andy Mace
to mention a few.......in addition to yourself.
Winona offers alot of benefits, I think. Centrally located in the U.S.,
low population area, attractive geographically on the Missisipi and
great back roads. I hope to do something like open up a "Hospitality
Suite" at my house for folks enroute to Winona and then send them off
with a set of instructions using the "Little Norway" type roads. It
would be a shame to approach Winona strictly by the Interstates. I will
be off work that whole week and will have just returned from the Vintage
Races (Brian Redman International Challenge) at Road America.
Just some early thoughts...
We are off to Grattan Friday...later.
Regards,
Joe
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>From: R John Lye[SMTP:rjl6n@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 1997 7:38 AM
>To: fot@autox.team.net; fp510@erols.com; phillipp@cfw.com
>Subject: NHIS
>
>Hi all,
> Chip and I are now back from New Hampshire. The trip
>up was relatively uneventful, although Chip probably gained
>a few gray hairs during the time that I drove the motorhome
>for him. I don't think he got as much rest during that time
>as he'd hoped to get!
> Anyway, the car worked quite well this weekend; in fact,
>we really didn't spend much time at all wrenching on the car.
>The worst problem was probably all the rubber that the tires
>were picking up; tire wear wasn't a problem at all, Chip came
>in after every session with more rubber than when he went out!
>During practice and qualifying, the Lotus 7 was running away
>and hiding from everyone else, and the Miata wasn't far behind.
>Chip was gridded right behind an F/Prod Fiat X-19 for the race
>and they had a really good dice going all race long. I'll let
>Chip fill in some of the details later if he has time, but I
>can tell you that he ran a good, very consistent race with
>lap times a couple seconds faster than he'd been running in
>qualifying. The Lotus 7 ran away again at first, but after
>11 laps, he slowed down by about 14 seconds per lap and then
>parked it after 13 laps of the 30 lap race. So, Chip came home
>with a second place trophy one lap down from the E/Prod winning
>Miata - and had four laps on the next E-car.
>
>cheers,
>
>John Lye
>
>rjl6n@virginia.EDU
>http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~rjl6n/homepage.htm
>
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