To all,
When I first ran my time capsule Stage V Sprite in vintage racing 5
years ago, it ran exactly as run in 1961.
Many races I couldn't keep up on the pace lap. Sad to hit the start line
at Road America while the leaders are already in turn 5....
That car ran 3:42s there. My current 948 MKII Sprite which has been
consistantly the most legal car in the organizations I race with
including VSCDA, SVRA, and CHR, runs 3:02. It's legal, but they didn't
look or run like that in '62.
WST
Team Thicko
WST
Wrtr@aol.com wrote:
> Hi Mike;
>
> <Snip> Off and on I have been doing this for 16 years and,
> after a time in the beginning trying too hard to modify my cars to
> make them
> go fast, I have learned to do a bunch of research, find out what the
> car
> would have been like in the years it was built, and prepare it that
> way. It
> means drum brakes and skinny street tires and lever shocks and it
> means I run
> around the track in the back half of the grid, frustrated sometimes at
> the
> guys who park in the corners after rocketing by me on the straights.
> But at
> the end of the day, I've always had fun and that's really why we do
> this.
>
> Kevin Clemens
> 1952 MG TD
> 1927 Chrysler Model 70 (A new project for VSCDA Group One!!!)
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