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Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing

To: Bob Lang <LANG@isis.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: "Were Raced"?and Vintage Racing
From: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:34:51 -0400
At 11:29 AM 9/23/99 -0400, Bob Lang wrote:
>Hey - I'm pretty good at being a troublemaker. It's fun!

Yeah <grin>

>But more to the point - vintage folks should possibly change the name of 
>the venue to vintage exhibition, and take "racing" out of the title. 
>There should be _no_ emphasis on winning.
>
>If you wanna win, go play SCCA or NASCAR or something.

Well, that is the crux of the problem - and its been around as long as
vintage racing has been around.  I can remember this being debated back
in the early 80's with no resolution in sight yet!

John Lye

'59 TR-3A, '62 TR-4, '70 GT-6+
email: rjl6n@virginia.edu
homepage:  http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~rjl6n/homepage.htm

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