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Subject: [Fot] 2016 Group 44 Inc. Trophy was awarded to...
From: Yellow04 <yellow04@tr4racer.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:32:36 -0400
Cc: 'Jeff Govert' <jgovert@gmail.com>
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The Group 44 Inc. Trophy is awarded at the VARAC event held at the track 
formerly known as Mosport (currently it's Canadian Tire Motorsports Park) to 
the Triumph driver that best meets the criteria set forth by Bob Tullius a 
couple years back. Problem is, we are all getting old and nobody really 
remembers for sure what that criteria was, so it was decided that the previous 
year's winner would develop their own criteria and pick this year's winner.

My apologies to Mr. Tullius, but I am confident Bob would be quite happy with 
my choice.

The obvious choice to me was our most junior Triumph driver at the event, Jeff 
Govert. Jeff in his Spitfire overcame obstacles all weekend, never missed a lap 
of track time, and showed us what Triumph drivers are all about. His weekend 
started out with a diff swap, then the starter motor went south. A field strip 
revealed a failed solder joint, but the problems ran deeper than that as a 
session or two later the starter motor was out again. The earlier repair was 
fine but in the end the starter was declared terminal. Jeff was resigned to 
push starting the car and getting gridded at just the right time so the car 
would not overheat while waiting to go. Then there was the brakes, but I think 
I made my point!

Jeff showed everybody he is made of the right stuff, and deserves to be the 
recipient of the 2016 Group 44 Inc. Trophy. Congrats Jeff!!!

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