My love and appreciation for the old machinery leaves me feeling as if I
witness a
wholesale withering and destruction of a friend when such things happen. In
my final year in college and my third in club racing, something I was told
put things into perspective with regard to my own car to help distance me in
the event I shot into the 'bog' inside the outer course of Texas World
Speedway, "If you can't afford to write the car off in such an event, you
can't afford to race". While it sobered me some, It didn't take on an acute
reality until 5 years later... as my low-mileage, cherry chassis '66 GT350
shot, a little askew and spiritedly, into the bog... OH SHIT! OH SHIT! OH
DAMN!! ...
Tom 'pucker factor' Kubler
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----- Original Message -----
From: Susan and John Roper <vscjohn@huntnet.net>
To: Tony Drews <tmccis@revealed.net>
Cc: <mdunst@smtplink.coh.org>; <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: crack-up at the historics
> Whoa, guys. i did not see the incident, but have problems with it being
described as
> an ill-advised charge down the inside. Too many of these incidents are
the result of a
> "racer" who does not use his or her mirrors and give way when someone has
gotten
> inside. A "charge down the inside" is the essential roadracing pass, and
requires the
> driver who has been passed to be aware and to concede the line if the
passing car got
> there before he did. I understand that there are some vintage racers who
would prefer
> a parade. Me, I like races and racers, not poseurs who don't bother to
learn how to do
> it. Nomex on. Fire away. John
>
> Tony Drews wrote:
>
> > Of course, it was none other than Phil Hill in the Maserati making an
(ill advised,
> > it turns out) charge down the inside of turn 1. I don't think he had as
much fun
> > in that race as he'd hoped to. :)
> >
> > - Tony
> >
> > mdunst@smtplink.coh.org wrote:
> >
> > > I was just speechless, with mouth agape when I saw the pretty
Maseratti tag the
> > > Lister Corvette then T-bone another. ...to be on live TV for all to
see (over
> > > and Over).
> > >
> > > Mordy
>
>
>
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