Great weekend. Rain for the feature race so instead of the 47 cars
registered, 14 brave souls did it in the wet. Jack Drews was in the
lead when his distributor rotor failed so Tony Drews finished first,
Larry Young fifth, Dennis Delap eighth, Jack Drews eleventh.
Triumphs there were
Jack Drews TR4 - a separate ignition component failed in every session
Tony Drews TR4 - ran like a freight train
Denis Delap TR3 - good show!
Larry Young TR3 - came up all the way from Tulsa OK
John Hornboestel TR3 - I lost track of how his weekend went
John Reed GT6+ - second in his race behind a screaming Alfa
Wayne Obry Spitfire - faster than a speeding bullet
Joe Alexander, sans car, but with grandkids which is just as good.
But there's more interesting stuff -- like in the qualifying race
with 45 cars on the grid.
Jack Drews, 3rd overall, best time 1:29.159
Tony Drews, 13th overall, best time 1:28.818
How can that be, one might ask? Well, 'ol Dad got around Tony early
on by late braking into corner one and led for a couple of laps.
After about three laps of this, we came around corner seven onto the
front straight and Jack suddenly lost two cylinders. Jack threw a
hand in the air as his car sputtered along and Tony whizzed past.
Then Jack's car came alive and continued. What neither of us noticed
was that there was a car off in the weeds and the yellow flag was
displayed -- so Tony got black flagged for passing under the yellow.
The Steward bought that story and sent Tony back out to
finish. Tony's comment afterwards was "Well, Dad, it took you eight
years to plan that one, didn't it?"
What a hoot.
uncle jack
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