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Re: [Fot] Watkins Glen 2008 Zippo GP....East Coast Kastner

To: <fot@autox.team.net>, "mark eginton" <dobrosailor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Fot] Watkins Glen 2008 Zippo GP....East Coast Kastner
From: "KEVIN LYNCH" <Klynch_6@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 10:42:27 -0600
Mark, we'll be thinking of ya' during this weekend's Trans Am race in Pueblo.
Last count shows we've 137 cars all tolled.  Kevin
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: mark eginton<mailto:dobrosailor@yahoo.com>
  To: fot@autox.team.net<mailto:fot@autox.team.net>
  Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:11 AM
  Subject: Re: [Fot] Watkins Glen 2008 Zippo GP....East Coast Kastner
Cup..Decision Time!!!


  Having cut my teeth on Northern California Tracks and a few Colorado tracks
I finally did Watkins Glen 3 weeks ago for the first time. For those that have
Watkins "on their list" KEEP IT THERE!!!!

    It is extremely exciting and fun - technically challenging, in a high
speed way, with the best esses I have ever experienced. With up-hill traction
- floor it just before the second apex and drift through the third onto the
back straight flat-out WAHOOOOO!!! My Vintage Mustang hit the rev limiter half
way down the both straights with 350s ratio rear end (no overdrive) so gear
tall. My car never saw second gear after the pits although I redline is set to
6k to favor a stock crank.

    That's the bad news; I heard from a sprite racer in the pits that some
smaller car drivers like tighter tracks better. The setting is fabulous, the
track is in relatively good condition and run as a first class operation.
There are some cement repairs that get your attention if you are on the edge
but its easy to see where the line is...

    I live in Ithaca 20 minutes away and would love to see you all come out
here, feel free to contact me if you want information on the area.

    BTW, I got my TR3 out in the upstate spring and am loving life - great
touring here and lots to see.

    Thanks so much to all that assisted me in my quest to breath life back
into the old girl. I picked my 75 yr old mother up at the airport in it with
the gasket sealer still drying. She bought it 2 yrs old in '59 and got more
1st place trophys racing "powder puff" than my dad did back in the day. Always
a point of contention...

    Thanks again,

    Mark


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