Appropriate Addendum:
Two "Newby" TR racers successfully completed the Blackhawk Classic driver's
school in a very nice TR3A..
Kent Howard and Neal Howard.
Father/Son on a Father/Son Weekend. What more can you ask for?
Neal was quick and will find more seconds as time goes on and the ex-Bill
Stevenson TR3 gets sorted out and new tires applied. Neal made a quick
assessment of a mechanical problem and prudently left the track near the end
of Handicap Race. Good judgment, Neal.
Dad Kent, as Instructor Burt Levy told me a few years ago, "....you are not
blindingly fast, but I would never have a problem being on the track with
you". Kent will work up to speed slowly but safely....but ultimately, IT
DOESNT MATTER, does it?
Congratulation Kent & Neal!!!!
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From: BillDentin@aol.com[SMTP:BillDentin@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, June 22, 1998 9:34 AM
To: FOT@autox.team.net
Subject: BLACKHAWK VINTAGE CLASSIC
To: Friends of Triumph
SIXTH ANNUAL BLACKHAWK VINTAGE TRIUMPH was its usual success. Great
weather
(albeit storms a couple of nights), good turn out, safe racing (Tony
Drews and
Don Brick went FAST), fun track party Saturday night, and on and on
and on.
THIRTY (-30-) new students entered the Beginner's Competition
School. Twenty-
eight were graduated. Two broke (including Buxner's TR4...a rod we
think).
Dan's buddy was doing the school in Dan's car. The car looks
gorgeous after
his violent cart wheels at Grattan (same event, session and lap, I
rolled
twice) a few years back, but they have some gremlins. Dan will find
them!
A warm and fuzzy story...the school included a sixty-seven year old
guy and
his 1953 MGTD. When he served in Korea in the 1950s, he saved up
$1,000. He
came home and bought the MGTD. He lived twenty-two miles from ROAD
AMERICA
and always wanted to race it. Six times he almost sold it, when the
kids
needed bread, socks, or schooling. Finally, at sixty-seven years of
age, he
did a VSCDA Driver's School successfully, and raced with us all week
end in
VSCDA's Group ONE. At luck would have it, Group ONE had an
outstanding turn
out, and he was one of six or eight MG-T's. There was also all
sorts of other
NEAT stuff (i.e. an old Riley, an Allard, old Jags, an early Lotus,
etc.,
etc.,)
Talk about a happy fellow. Some time in late December the smile
will come of
this guy's face. That's what it is all about. In addition, about a
dozen
students came up to me throughout the week end. Shook my hand.
Looked me
straight in the eye, and said, "This is the most fun I have ever
had!" He
don''t have to tell me, I know that's what it's all about.
Of course when they tell me, "This is the most fun I have ever
had!", I assume
they mean with two layers of clothing on.
Bill Dentinger
PS
I had my first 1998 Event without breaking something. I ran a 4:55
rear end
without overdrive. I don't think anyone was beating me out of the
corners,
but it seemed like I was shifting every three seconds, and out of
RPMs every
twenty feet. Got to do something different for ROAD AMERICA in
three weeks.
Still fun though...and you ALWAYS find someone to race with.
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