Sorry I missed you Larry. I had a couple of friends racing this weekend so I
was
all over the paddock visiting. The first place trophy was kind of a slam dunk,
but the second trophy for the most votes of any car in the show meant more to
me. You should have left a note on my car of where you were parked. Did you
stay for both days?
Mike
Larry Miller wrote:
> We left Salinas at o-dark-thirty on Saturday morning in the pouring rain
> heading for Button Willow raceway. We stopped for breakfast in Paso Robles
> and messed around there for a while, in the pouring rain, before heading
> across highway 46 to Interstate 5 and Button Willow, in the pouring rain.
>
> We arrived about 10 AM and found Jon Paschke from the Spridget list at the
> Funkana setup where he was waiting for participants to start showing. We
> chatted with Jon for a few minutes then went looking for Mike MacLean. We
> found Mike's Bugeye but never saw Mike. By this time the rain was no longer
> pouring, just intermittent. Did I mention that the wind was also blowing?
>
> Did I mention that weather wise it was a real crappy day but did not seem to
> interfere very much with the racing :-)
>
> This was my first trip to Button Willow and it is not a great spectator
> track. There is only one spot where you can get higher than the track and
> that spot only holds about 50 people. Looks like the track was intended just
> for the racers. The parking is pretty much all mixed in with the pit area
> and you can park where ever you want. Maybe now that they have the British
> car show they will get more spectators and make some changes. BTW congrats
> on the 1st place Mike. There were only two Bugeyes in the show but they were
> both very nice.
>
> One very fast Bugeye and a couple of very fast Spridgets waxed the field in
> the Sprite-Mini Challenge. The winning Bugeye sported the Walker Bonnet
> (http://www.ado13.com/bw/bw.html) made by Speedwell (Tom Colby). It pretty
> much ran away from the pack.
>
> Larry Miller
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