Nice weather, good organization from VSCDA (always!) and Midwestern
Council, interesting event, good racing. Is the following report even
necessary?
Wismer - missing in action in Italy.
Brick -- off flying airplanes in competition.
Damdinger -- lame excuse about going to a shipboard wedding that lasted two
days (no kidding) but he showed up Sunday and cheered everybody up.
Dennis Delap - ran good, faster, came in second in the handicap race.
Scott Barr -- Spitfire wants to run out of fuel on the straights. He'll get
that fixed, though.
Korey -- ran great, finally passed that pesky Volvo that was slow in the
corners and fast on the straights - you know the kind.
John Hornboestel early gremlins that he cleared up later, got eighth.
Allen Washatko TR6 - mechanical problems.
Joe Alexander -- another Alexander saga. His transmission quit shifting in
the middle of a session. He got it into third and continued to lap.
Astonishingly, he turned the best time of the day on a lap when he had only
third gear!. Raw talent, don't you think? (slave cylinder problem).
Tony Drews just refused to give Dad a Fathers' day victory gift. Tony and
Jack ran nose to tail during qualifying with Tony being a tick faster
(sounds like a broken record, eh?) They started nose-to-tail in both races,
too, with the feature race finding Tony fifth, Dad sixth, behind a gaggle
of Lotus 7, Porsche, AH 3000, etc. We were pretty happy.
The last race of the day was a handicap race. Slow cars at the front, fast
cars at the rear, cars waved on to the track at intervals calculated to put
all cars across the finish line side-by-side. Just before the race, Tony's
water pump pulley destroyed itself. Delap donated a spare water pump, Dad
donated a good pulley and sat out the race, and The blindingly fast Porsche
and Corvette just couldn't catch the TR's - Tony first, Delap second.
I'll bet the Formula 1 drivers would be green with envy at all that fun.
By the way, isn't Michelin a French company?
uncle jack
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