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Re: [Fot] Why the dearth of Spitfire vintage racers?

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Subject: Re: [Fot] Why the dearth of Spitfire vintage racers?
From: "Terry Stetler" <tlizzard@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 07:25:27 -0400
In short, it is less expensive to race a Spridget, and there are more "donor"
cars out there to support an effort.

The Sprite engine is more reliable as a race engine too.

Terry Stetler.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Jim<mailto:britbits@netzero.com>
  To: fot@autox.team.net<mailto:fot@autox.team.net>
  Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 11:40 PM
  Subject: [Fot] Why the dearth of Spitfire vintage racers?


  Just got back from a weekend of vintage racing with the Corinthians Vintage
  Auto Racing group as the new track near Dallas (Eagle Canyon Raceway) and
  one burning question popped into mind:

  What's the ratio of Spitfires vs Austin Healey Sprite/MG Midgets in vintage
  racing?

  In CVAR there's a gent named Roger Williams that originated a "Spec Sprite"
  class in CVAR, (basically a post 1970 Spriget bodyshell with barely warmed
  over 1275 and a $35 Firestone spec tire) and directly built a bunch and
  encouraged others to build more.  Those cars have bounced between FP and
  Spec Sprite over the last 10 years depending upon owner's budget and
  willingness to be honest.  So that may skew the numbers a tad.

  This weekend there were roughly 12 Spridgets (8 FP and 4 Spec Sprite)..
And
  only 1 Spitfire in FP.  In 15 years I've only ever seen 4 different
  Spitfires (3 round tail and 1 squaretail "Mk IV" ;) and never witnessed
more
  than one Spitfire running at a time.

  On the flip side, if I counted cars using Spitfire (ok, Herald) based front
  suspensions the ratio gets turned over, when you condider the Loti, FF, and
  token TVRs that show up from time to time.

  Back to the subject line, is it purely the rear swing axle/diff issue?



  Cheers,

  Jim
  Dallas



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