Oscar Kovaleski used to drive his McLaren to/from Watkins Glen. It was
apparently quite teh sight flying down Rt 17....
On 10/15/07, Marx Christian tr4-racing <chris@tr4-racing.de> wrote:
>
> My car before its way back home....
>
> http://www.tr4-racing.de/pic/2005/zolder/zolder4_ex.JPG
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ernest Husmann
> To: William G Rosenbach ; chris@tr4-racing.de
> Cc: fot@autox.team.net
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Driving to the track in the race car
>
>
> Stop it, please stop. All this talk about driving to the track just may
> reverse a twenty year trend of bigger trailers and tow vehicles. If this
> were
> to happen do you know what would happen to the economy. Not to mention
> the
> day dreams that would affect the actions of young children.
> wink wink nudge nudge
>
> William G Rosenbach <wgrosenbach@juno.com> wrote:
> Driving your racecar to the track gives you a different mind set at
> the
> event, you can break your ride home. Trailering gives more peace of
> mind,
> knowing if you break it, you can still get home. I generally drove my
> car
> to vintage races. Once in a snow storm with no heat or wipers.
>
> Rocky Mountain Vintage Racing, has a member who last year celebrated
> his
> 100th RMVR event as a driver. Bill Miller drives his almost original,
> stock, as delivered, Shelby GT-350 H to & from events. Packs
> everything
> he needs for the weekend in it, including Gerry Cans of fuel. This
> summer, he drove it from Denver to Miller MSP in Utah. He ONLY runs it
> on
> race fuel, so no just stopping at the Mini-Mart. That 100 events does
> NOT
> include the about half again that many other events & track days he &
> his
> steed have participated in. I believe he has been towed home twice, in
> all that time.
>
> Chek Beuf, an original owner of an original 427 Cobra, used to drive
> it,
> on race slicks, to the track.
> We had several appearances by a TR-3 which pulled a trailer with its
> race
> tyres & support materials.
> Original owner of an original Porsche 912 (looking like it just came
> off
> the showroom floor), has been driving to & from the track for years
> now.
> My car broke in Steamboat one year, Clive Averill loaded my car on his
> trailer and I drove his GT-6 back to Denver (you cannot believe how
> good
> that 2 litre six sounds at full chat, with no muffler, in the Johnson
> tunnel!).
>
> RMVR has an Historic Group, that encourages entries that are more what
> the factory produced, not what can be built from the catalogs. We have
> the Danny Colins Cup award, for that group. Points are awarded for
> driving To & From the track.
>
> If the point of the exercise is to recreate, reenact, racing from
> earlier
> years, we would drive to & from the track, time with analog stop
> watches.
> Like that's going to happen.
>
> Bill
> 70 GT-6+
>
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:14:10 +0200 "Marx Christian tr4-racing"
> writes:
> > It not only me who is absolutly nuts and driving the expensive
> racing
> > car on
> > its own wheels to the track....here is another one.....with some
> > bucks more to
> > spend...
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOE9sjsV15w
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