Jack,
I was sitting in the grandstand there at the bridge turn during the melee
you mention. While it has faded somewhat in my memory (it was several mango
seasons ago as they say in Florida), I do remember that the motor was
knocked out of a Porsche 912. There were some great race cars destroyed
that day. My friend remarked "Well, that was about a quarter of a million
dollars worth of racecars just wadded into a ball".
I hope you're never involved in another one like that--I know I don't care
to see another.
Roger Beasley
Cape Coral, Fl
----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
To: 'Paul Richardson' <Paul-Richardson@cyberware.co.uk>
Cc: 'FOT' <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 2:58 PM
Subject: RE: Six Hour Relay Race
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> Bravo! Reminds me of my own son watching me when I was racing. He was
> just a baby in 1990, but was there to see me win the SCCA EP national
> championship at the runoffs at Road Atlanta. He's seen it so many times
on
> video, he probably thinks he remembers from being there. Three years
> later, in 1993, he was also there and watching as I came out from under
the
> bridge and T-Boned a spinning Porsche 914 at over 100 MPH (part of a
> race-ending 5 car melee). As only a 3 1/2 year old could say it, he
turned
> to my wife and said 'Why did daddy wreck his car?'
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Richardson [SMTP:Paul-Richardson@cyberware.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 11:23 AM
> To: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: Six Hour Relay Race
>
> Hi FOTers
>
> I'm off to see the classic Six Hour relay race at Snetterton on Sunday.
> Should be fun I know for sure there are three TR 3's in one team. There
are
> over forty teams entered including Morgans MG's and Healeys etc.
>
> Whilst on the subject of six hour relay races, I well remember an
identical
> race at Silverstone - many years ago - when my father Ken was persuaded to
> drive in one of the TR teams. The whole Richardson family with aunts and
> uncles and various friends were there enjoying the fun. Sometime during
the
> race Ken came round Woodcote corner - in a white TR - in the middle of an
> enormous, heart stopping spin. My middle brother Ian, thoroughly approving
> of the spinning TR and the squealing tyres, began clapping his hands and
> jumping up and down in shear excitement. Before we could restrain him he
> cupped his hands, jumped up on a bench seat and shouted at the top of his
> voice, "DO IT AGAIN DAD."
>
> Paul
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