Wonderful account of the weekend! Since many of know the Morgan & the
Daimler and how capable Gaunt & Moser are, you and George's performances are
extremely impressive.
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The following is in from Pat Ryan on his Spitfire experience at Savannah,
the Garden of Good & Evil Triumphs:
Just back from Savannah and we had a great turnout in group 1. Sean passed
Jim Roberts for the first time. Passed and repassed 5 times. Wrong car
leading at the end. Kent Bain had a second or two on them. Had a great
time. Weather wonderful. Track excellent. Very safe and sane racing.
Pat Ryan
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Mark Bradakis...in reviewing the last list, I fail to see Pat Ryan's address
loaded into the list.
psr@mnw.net = Pat Ryan
Would you please enter him into the Triumph Hall of Fame known as the
Friends of Triumph, AKA Amici Triumphi? He will be a welcome and long over
due member of this group.
Thanks,
Joe
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> From: mike jackson[SMTP:grand_wazoo@flinet.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 1998 5:32 PM
> To: Friends of Triumph
> Subject: SVRA Savannah race invaded by Triumphs
>
> First, my apologies to all the Spit drivers on the list. I didn't get a
> lot of dope on who was there and how they did.
>
> The SVRA race had a nice turn out of tractor motors with George Wright,
> Jeff Snook and myself. Plus Harry Gaunt with the biggest, blackest,
> baddest Triumph powered Morgan you'd ever want to see. I have NEVER
> seen a car with a tractor motor have that much straight line speed. He
> chased me down from 6-8 car lengths back, lap after lap. And I thought
> I was going fast!
>
> The three of us TR guys paddocked together (along with my wifes lowly
> formula V) and had a congenial time all weekend. Plus, I got to see
> some more photos of the Devin, looks gorgeous.
>
> George showed us the way on Friday and laid down some very respectable
> lap times. Jeff and I were a bit slower but still running quite well.
> On Saturday I applied the lessons George gave me on Friday and out
> qualified him. But the first 5 cars on the grid, including a Daimler,
> an MGB and a ex-Eprod Fiat, were separated by about 0.3 seconds total.
>
> Everybody ran well on Saturday and 'ol 62 finished first. George was
> going to be seriously in the hunt but had an agricultural excursion when
> the Daimler showed him brake lights entering into about a 90 mph
> sweeper. It's and old trick and I've learned that when I see Mosers
> brake light come on in that corner, it's time to hammer the throttle
> cause he's in trouble and I'm goin around.
>
> On Sunday we had a hum-dinger of a race goin when one of the TRs decided
> to have his ignition take a breather. Sadly it was mine. Was a
> wonderfull first 10 laps with the badass Morgan along side at turn one
> lap after lap. But, it was a 14 lap race.
>
> Both George and Jeff had good runs as well with both putting down lap
> times that all of us would have gladly taken and called it a successfull
> weekend.
>
> Left my car a the track and will drive back up in 2 weeks for an SCCA
> race that is including vintage. Hope to bring all the right parts to
> make it run again cause it was totally dead by the time it got near the
> trailer.
>
> Hope to see more fasTRs at the Mitty in 3 weeks.
>
> Your humble correspondent,
>
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