It was a wonderful weekend! Especially for the Littlefields. Our cars
were running well, with only some niggling problems, like Pam's rear
brake shoe disintegrating. We started and finished every race and mostly
up in the front. Pam was doing extremely well against some cars with
higher performance motors, but unfortunately went four-off a couple of
laps before the end of the second-to-last race. The subsequent stop and
go penalty put her back in the pack for the final race.
We still did well, though, as I finished fourth and she finished sixth in
the final. Unfortunately, some of that was through attrition as a fellow
Midget driver decided that "All Triumphs Must Die!" and punted the
third-place Spitfire into the weeds. That left only one other
non-Spridget contender in FP, another Spitfire, who was a couple laps
behind the leaders. The front-running Bugeye driven by Pete Sandy
decided to take a spin around Turn 8(?), also known as "The Bitch," and
so ended up finishing 5th, between me and Pam.
The weather was great! Very sunny, though windy and cold in the
mornings. Just perfect racing weather.
Pam and I also won best in show at the Saturday night costume contest,
dressing up as "Buddy and Judy Palumbo go bowling in the 50's." You'll
have to have read Burt Levy's books to know who the Palumbos are. It
means a free race weekend entry, no small thing since we usually pay
double entries!
Glad you could come, Charlie, sorry we didn't have time to chat, but race
weekends can be rather hectic. Even though we usually have only 2 or 3
20 minutes races a day, keeping up with two racecars can be very
time-consuming.
David Littlefield
1974 MG Midget vintage racecar "The Gnat"
Pam Littlefield
1972 MG Midget vintage racecar "Felicity"
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:35:55 -0500 (CDT) "charlie shelden"
<shelden3@pldi.net> writes:
> Thanks should go to David Littlefield for some tickets first off!
> Thanks
> David.
>
> We had a great weekend watching the CVAR group run at Hallett Race
> track
> in Jennings, Oklahoma. Hallett is a fun place to go, about 1.3
> miles or
> so road course in NE Oklahoma hills. Saw many vintage cars, lots of
> MG's
> Sprites/Bugeyes...and my favorite a field of about 7 or more Super
> Sevens
> all running fast. Then you had about 10 or more Forumula Fords all
> screaming down the straights as well as Formula Vee's and Super
> Vee's
> while not British they are a blast to watch. This is a great course
> to
> watch at, you pretty much go where you want when you want. We
> parked on a
> hill overlooking turn 1 about 100' off the track and about 20' above
> it,
> brought a tent for the kids to hang out in and had a day of it.
> Great
> weather as well, as it was in the low 70's and a light NE wind so it
> was
> perfect.
>
> I didn't get much time to check on our fellow Spridget list members,
> as I
> didn't want to be in the way plus had to keep my 2 year old car nut
> at
> bay. But last time I saw David he was working on the brakes on his
> wifes
> Midget. His car seemed to be running pretty strong, not sure where
> he
> finished at overall but he had some stiff competetion in his field.
>
> To top it all off, my father in law and I were able to get a first
> hand
> tour of a new Lotus Elise...and you thought a Spridget was small!
>
> Thanks again,
> Charlie & Brandi Shelden
> 59 Sprite
> OKC, OK
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