Shoveled snow to the door at home today and wasn't even grumbling. Still
too happy about the Florida trip.
Important stuff:
HOMESTEAD:
Approach road to track lined with palm trees!
TV's in garages along front straight
Vaughn Rockney so well prepared he gave guard dog Einstein a haircut
Neil Harmon, timer extraordinaire, sipping Negra Modelo
Ceilley cooler floating away on Lake Homestead
uncle jack screwing up a corner entry while leading Duck Waddle
Sunshine every day except Race Day
SEBRING:
Rockney's crew running all the fuel runs to see the chickie at the gas
pump
Ted Schumacher directing us to cheap fish, barbeque, gas
Mike Jackson putting on another super nose-to-tail display in Vee
GTP night enduro incredibly spectacular in Florida dusk
Spitfire assuming June Bug position (wheels up) stopping race
TRIP:
Cape Canaveral IMAX show on moon landing bringing tears to eyes
Sanibel canoe trip delighting with all those long legged birds
Bag of oranges filling the van with gnats
jack and Tony huddling in Kentucky parking lot, draining the Triumph
radiator and filling with antifreeze
jack and Tony plotting to wear white shirts at home to show off suntans
UNIMPORTANT STUFF:
Results: Homestead - third overall, first in class in the rain, yet.
Second in enduro.
Sebring: 30th in field of 60 - 4th in class in sprint race, 3 hour
enduro - 33rd in field of 60, 4th in class
jack one second faster at Homestead, Tony one second faster at Sebring!
BOTTOM LINE:
Thomas Woolf's concept of joy-sec (total joy, experienced for one
second) -- we got a lifetime share, I think.
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uncle jack the Iowa carfrek
TR4 Rallye Replica vintage racer
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