Hi,
Seeing that the emphasis on these reports has been on fun... NER SCCA and
the Cape Cod British Car Club hosted an autocross this weekend past at
Cape Cod Community college. A pile of interesting British cars showed up
including an x-SCCA bug-eye (driven by at least three drivers), a D-Type
replica (mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm) several street MG's of various configurations
as well as a scad of Factory Five Roadsters (seeing that the home base
for FFR is about 15 miles from the site, this was somewhat expected).
At any rate, the event was a nice laid-back autocross with the emphasis on
fun. The non-driver participants were afforded a view of the complete
course, so they can see and hear what's going on.
In the end, the FTD was set by a TRIUMPH. Lang's TR6 bested the field
(which included an A-Mod "winged wonder" and some pretty awesome drivers.)
The performance was pretty good, because it wound up "factoring" to 4th
overall. So, FTD, a class win and a top-five factor seems like a clean
sweep.
But the really neat part of the drive was that local Miata driver Dan
Dallassio co-drove the car in FP. After his first run, Dan committed to
drive the "40 car" in AP at the Solo II nationals. We don't need to
mention the broad smile on Dan's face after his first run... something
about "wow, this car makes a lot of torque". Well, compared to a Miata? I
should guess so! A new member of the Triumph fold.
How kool is that?
rml
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