Oh, I remember you and Donna now. I was taking tickets for practice starts
for the ProSolo Finale when both you and Donna were there. Whoever wasn't
running had tickets for the one who was. You both seemed very nice and I was
impressed by how well your car worked. Donna certainly did very well and I
would
say that in your case your investment paid off. I also think your car will
still be very
competitve again this year (sorry, I can't see any further into the future...).
I think
the main point most people are making is that you paid more than most people are
willing to pay, but like I said before, in your case the investment paid off.
It doesn't
always work as well for everyone else and also there are many cases where people
do very well with much lower budgets. Myself, I think I averaged around $3K
for the
last couple of years, but that included maintance I had to do to keep the car
going and
competitive from year to year along with tires and what-not. Last year the
largest
part of my budget was what I had to pay my wife to get out of town for 3 to 5
days
at a time....This year I've already blown my budget as I'm already $40K + into
it
(bought a car and gear) and haven't seen the 1st event yet. I hope my returns
are
as good as yours.
Anyway, I wish both you and Donna good luck on the year. I think you will be
fine.
Scott Troyer
2001 Z06, SS#171
Charles wrote:
> Nope I'm not the highly skilled driver in the family, my wife is, I'm the
> pitcrew. Mike Ekert is the owner of the car Priebe drove at Topeka. Priebe
> drove our car at Petersburg pro to 2nd place (the first time he had EVER
> driven a FWD car!) and my wife won the ladies challenge there. GH Sharp
> drove our car to a first at the Rome tour. I finished 36th in GS at Topeka.
> We had put our new custom shocks (matched to the ones on Ekert's car) on the
> weekend before we left for Topeka. My wife, Donna Frank, trophied in L1 at
> the pro finale, finished 4th in the ladies challenge, and 3rd in GSL in the
> championship. She had been selected by Sports Car to win GSL, and led the
> first two rounds the first day but blew her third run by getting late due to
> a lapse of concentration in the bent slalom on the north course, normally
> her best feature. She put herself in a hole she couldn't quite climb out of
> the second day, being beaten by Mary Medicus, and 6 time national champ
> Katie Elder, a last minute entry in the Priebe/Ekert car. She was
> disappointed that she beat herself, but it certainly wasn't a bad showing
> for her (our) first nationals, on shocks she had never run in competition
> before.
> TEAM POINTLESS
> Chuck and Donna Frank
> 2002 Celica GT # 42 GS, GSL, L1
/// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try
/// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo
/// Partial archives at http://www.team.net/archive
|