Kas, I love it. Keep'em coming. Reminded me of an SCCA national at Lake
Charles in the 80's, which was a bit like Sebring, WWII airfield, and when
it rained the water just lay there. I had the throttle feathered as I
entered the pit straight just trying to finish, when the damned thing turned
180 and tried to back under the starter's stand. An old friend and
long-time friend Sam Culpepper was on the stand. As I looked up while
passing under him all I could see was eyes, great big eyes. Great times.
John
R. Kastner wrote:
> 1965, Sebring entrant is three factory Spitfire coupes with 1100 cc
> engines. Just about sundown this huge rainstorm hits the pit area and
> most of the racetrack. The water is piling up on the front straight and
> the little 3 foot pitwall between the pits and the track. The wall is
> neat to sit on as as I am waiting for my last car to come around so that
> we could change to the rain tires. Lap times are in the 8 minutes region
> and everyone is going about 10 miles an hour, Jim Hall comes out of the
> pits with his special Chevy racer (running first overal) with a kinda
> snowplow front end spoiler on it. It's too late for me to duck back
> across the narrrow pitlane, water is thrown five feet high and right
> over the top of me and just about melts the cheap cowboy hat I've got on
> . I put my hand down outside the wall to see how deep the water is, the
> water comes over my WATCH. Yup, it's time for rain tires. The last car
> comes in, Ed Barker, as the tires are being changed and the mechanic
> reaches for the rain tire to put it on he looks up and the tire is
> twenty feet down the pit lane floating away. NOW THAT IS A RAIN RACE.
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