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Re: [Fot] Hill Climb

To: Paul MacDonald <macdonaldp@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: [Fot] Hill Climb
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:21:37 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Paul MacDonald wrote:

> Andre
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> Other places to take the race car.
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> http://www.hillclimb.org/

You ave no idea how hillarious this is for me (and close to home).

My first "almost" step into racing was hillclimbs. Long story, but I got 
to drive an HP bugeye sprite in a funkhana and the guy really worked me to 
buy the car. I WANTED THAT CAR. Fate stepped in and the car was wrecked 
about 5 months later at Mt. Ascutney. The driver was okay, but dissapeared 
from any car events after that (SCCA / various Brit car stuff). And he had 
been active in both.

At any rate, once in a blue moon I look at NEHA and usually decide that if 
I'm going to do events like that, I'll drag my car all the way to PA do 
run with the PA hillclimb folks.

The hillclimbs in New England are, for lack of a better term - SCARY. The 
roads are nasty (for the most part) and NARROW. With big rocks and trees 
right on the edge of the road.

If you can't afford to totally write off your car, I would not approach 
NEHA hillclimbs at anywhere near 10/10ths. Even 7/10ths would be 
hair-raising at best.

Of course you can't get good without taking risks... Sprongel did the 
Mount Washington Auto Road in under 7 minutes. If you miss on that one, 
there's 1000 foot drop-offs. Of course they don't run there anymore, but 
that sort of risk is pretty much standard for NEHA. Look at any of the 
in-car vidZ posted on the web site.

NER/SCCA stopped running hillclimbs in the region a LONG time ago because 
of the safety / risk aspects.

> Paul

regards,
rml
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