Yes, it was an interesting moment. The corner station obviously had their
hands full but they were displaying the debris flag almost BEHIND the yellow,
which was stationary (no sleight intended -- I've been in their spot myself).
I spotted the yellow at the exit of 5, but didn't see the debris flag until I
got into the braking zone at 6. Fortunately, John was pretty obvious sitting
there driver's left just across from the apex waving his hands out of his
window, so most of us had it pretty well under control coming into the corner,
but to quote David Hobbs we all had a "rather lurid moment." Some a little
more lurid than others, I guess.
Scott
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From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Jerry Barr
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 12:32 PM
To: JReed@wilson.com
Cc: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Blackhawk Addendum
Scott made mention of sliding around in T6, scared to heck out of him
too!
On Jun 21, 2005, at 10:24 AM, JReed@wilson.com wrote:
> I have to credit FOT. All the knowledge out there is amazing. I've been
> running a Lucas dizzy since the car was given to me in 1980, with the
> usual headaches. Last season was a disaster. So not to go to far ahead
> in
> technology I installed a Mallory dual point. It works great.Needs to be
> curved so I can get past 7000. Also put on those beautiful horns that
> Uncle Jack, Joe Alexander had made. Grunt out of the corners is very
> nice.
>
>
> I was running first in the feature race when oil line let go in T6,
> talk
> about being scared. I spun around and ended up just off the track at
> the
> turns exit. I'm looking at this giant oil stripe that goes through the
> turn right to my car. I was like a giant magnet. Cars sliding at me,
> around me, spinning, all with no control.Next lap they do it again!! I
> was
> very lucky not to get collected. That said it was a wonderful weekend.
> Beautiful weather, great friends and my new motor is OK.
>
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>
> John Reed
> Wilson Sporting Goods Co.
> Staff Photographer
> 773-490-8908
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> Effective immediately, please note my new email address has changed to
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>
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> 06/21/05 06:50 AM
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> emanteno@comcast.net
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> To
> fot@autox.team.net (FOT)
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> Subject
> Blackhawk Addendum
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> Not previously mentioned in the Blackhawk Farms reports was the overall
> win in his qualifying race for FOT John "Zippy" Reed in his way too
> fast
> GT-6. John runs in Group 8, and there are some seriously fast Porsches
> and
> MG's in there, but they were no match for John. I had to leave the
> track
> early, so I didn't stay for his race on Sunday, hopefully he did as
> well.
>
> I still remember John passing me in my very first race in 1992, which
> was
> also at Blackhawk. He passed me between corners 4 and 5, and I wondered
> then how he could do that. Scared the crap out of me when he did it.
>
> ;-)
>
> Years of watching him run, both as a corner worker and now as an
> alleged
> driver, have showed me how.
>
> Good show, John.
>
> Irv Korey
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