[Fot] Road America brief report and video / pic links

Tony Drews tony at tonydrews.com
Tue May 19 19:18:01 MDT 2009


I was wrong - John Frederici DID finish Sunday's race, his problem 
was the tranny popping out of 3rd.  He held it in gear as 
necessary.  (Been there, done that!)

- Tony

At 11:46 AM 5/18/2009, Tony Drews wrote:
>Just got finished unloading from last weekend at Road America, 
>running with SVRA.  Weather was a bit on the cool side, Sunday was 
>gorgeous.  Car is running great, ran a 2:52 in the first session, 
>couldn't equal that until the final race.  Had fun in the qualifying 
>sessions, but had a frustrating qualifying race Sat afternoon.  Kept 
>getting held up in the twisty bits and then passed on the 
>straights.  Dropped from 6th to 10th.  Was run off the track by a 
>TVR between the kink and the carousel on the last lap - had a run on 
>him but had to cool my jets.
>
>Sunday we were gridded by finishing order Saturday, so I was 
>prepared for more frustration.  However, I had an excellent race - 
>ended up moving back up to 7th.  Held off the TVR with some minor 
>blocking (hey, what comes around goes around), passed Jeff Johnk in 
>his fast yellow healey, but a Morgan flew by.  Had some great dicing 
>with 356's, came out all grins although a bit oil covered from the 
>silver one...  Got down to a low 2:51 in the race.  Car is running 
>as well as ever, and my Larry cam lets me turn those time while 
>shifting at 6 grand.  I think the track's grip has gone down some 
>from a couple years ago where I had the magical race that got me 
>into the 49's.  Maybe the Toyos I was running then had a bit more 
>grip than the current Speedsters too...
>
>Light turnout for this event, hope that's not a portend of things to come.
>
>Anyway, I posted the ~ 25 minute minorly edited video to Picasa here 
>(fewer titles this time, Chris):
>http://picasaweb.google.com/tony.drews.88/RoadAmericaMay2009?feat=email#5337192401664799986
>Photos from the event here:
>http://picasaweb.google.com/tony.drews.88/RoadAmericaMay2009?feat=email#5337192401664799986
>There are several shots of Bill Dentinger getting awarded a giant 
>bottle of wine for his yeoman's service as treasurer of VSDCA.
>
>Bob Wismer's car ran flawlessly all weekend, Bill had an odd problem 
>where his car wouldn't move that kept him out of Sunday's race, but 
>then he was later able to drive it to the trailer.  The only other 
>Triumph was John Frederici, he had tranny problems and didn't make 
>the Sunday race.
>
>- Tony Drews
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