[Shotimes] track day at Putnam Saturday

[Donald Mallinson]

Well, while fighting a bit of a cold saturday, I went with 
two friends of mine to Putnam Park race track in Indiana for 
a day of lapping with a bunch of Porsche and others from the 
Indy area.

Our group was a couple of SVT Cobra's (the non-blower last 
version) and my '89 SHO.  I didn't really need a full day of 
lapping (didn't have time to prepare the SHO right), but I 
drove it there and talked the organizer into letting me go 
on track at noon for "low speed" lapping.  Turns out the 
only differences between their regular lapping and the noon 
thing, was it was free, and no passing.  It was perfect for 
me, I was able to get up to speed as I wanted, and by the 
end of about 40 minutes!  I was hanging the back end out and 
doing four wheel drifts.  Only real difference is I didn't 
air the thing out on the straight, not wanting to go through 
what was left of the Carbotech pads that I have had on the 
car for about FOUR YEARS!  (man, I wish they hadn't quit 
making these, they are super!)

Anyway, the '89 was a true pleasure machine, hanging in with 
many well prepared 'stangs and other things taking advantage 
of the free track time.

I am working on a regular track day at this track for any 
SHO people in the area in co-operation with my SVT group in 
Peoria.  If you are interested in maybe a fall track day at 
Putnam. SW of Indy about an hour, then get back to me off 
list.  Cost would be somewhere between $150 and $300 
depending on if you want to try and do it on a weekend or if 
you can do a week day.

Don Mallinson