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[Spridgets] 2011 Targa car and 2010 story in a nutshell...

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Subject: [Spridgets] 2011 Targa car and 2010 story in a nutshell...
From: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:55:36 -0800 (PST)
The car this year is a 1997 BMWW M3, the original ebay listing was:

www.tinyurl.com/soavebmw (I ended up buying it privately)

Background:

Many of you will recall that Jeff Porasik and I went to drive Targa 
Newfoundland along with the great Dave Woerpel as crew to race in 2010. The car 
we were asked to drive was a 1953 Studebaker Starliner. Without getting into 
detail or reasons why the owner is now dead to me, the car was prepped with 
many of us helping. The car was not ready for a trip around the block 
(literally; I don't think it made one pass successfully) let alone one of the 
more grueling 2200 Km races on the planet. Targa is also NOT a vintage race 
rally. Some do TSD with vintage cars, but more for the tour and scenery than to 
win. If you bring a vintage car, it needs to be well-prepared to even finish. 
To make a very long story short, by the night before the rally's official 
start, the car broke hard. Without implicating anyone who may have endorsed 
this, we were able to re-enter in a class with much lower speeds and no safety 
equipment required. To get around the small issue of not
 having a car, we rented a 2010 Dodge Charger and disguised it with racing 
decals all over it. We did TSD (time-speed-distance)) and had the most fun 
imaginable. Pics are here, we are #1035 Black Charger:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2088160&id=1341954812&l=c2f3023c6f

So we had a blast. We became somewhat notorious, and seem to have made it into 
most video accounts of the race. We put on a pretty good show hustling the car 
around, and were told by a race official we were one of only two cars to put 
wheels up in the air on one of the town stages on Day 1. 

So we're in the full-race, go as fast as you can class this year with my 
brother Rob navigating. I'm trying to convince Porasik to race with another 
friend, but I'm not having much success. Despite the fact that we were about to 
strangle each other by week's end, we are like brothers and I wish he were 
going as well, but "Legalize Shemp Racing" will still be at road courses around 
the midwest this summer, and likely back together at Targa in 2012, job-willing.

So there it is. Back to shoveling.

Ron
Team Soave Racing
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