SAT AM - We made sure that Henry and Dean were in good shape for the day,
and I headed over to the autocross. Things were a tad disorganized, but we
managed to get cars running by 10. The guy that organized things had been
out running the course on FRI and was pretty sure the fast times would be
about 1 min. Prophetic, as it turns out.
The first group was stock cars. There were some pretty cars running
including a Plus Four Plus and some Bugeyes. The Plus 8's looked to be the
real threat in the event and two guys got in the 1:05 range. One guy in a
Plus 8 had two really gnarly spins and came really close to "tripping" the
car in a spin across the curbing. Yikes!
The third run group had the "fast" cars, Modified and Prepared. Marty /
Jason Sukey had thier awesome TR6 and Craig Anderson had a really kool
100-4 on slicks. Craig was wearing an SCCA Solo '95 Topeka T, so he's
"been around". Tony "I'm running everything this weekend" Drews has his
TR4 there too. The drill was that we'd get two practice runs to find the
course and then run three timed runs.
First runs out were uneventful and Lang turned a 1:01 on the second
practice lap. Timed events went really well and after the first timed
runs, It looked like either Tony of Craig would get Top Time of the Day.
On the second runs, Marty got "lost" at the top of the hill, Jason had a
wild spin with BIG SMOKE from the tires. It was 5.9 on a 6 scale. Lang
lost it on the second sweeper and the flag / worker started running when
the driver pegged the throttle so as not to stall in the spin. The run
sucked, but even with a spin (and full stop), it was a 1.08. Damn!
Tony was sitting at FTD with a 1:01 and change, I think about .8 or so.
I'm not sure what happened next, as the Sukey-mobile was dripping a tad
from the oil breather. and we were busy looking at that and getting
drivers in / out of the car for runs.
At any rate, last to run was Lang. I think Craig turned a slightly faster
1:00 maybe a .8. Tony was right there too. So a 59 was the mark. According
to observers, the run looked slow, but the timing folks read out the time
to Lang: 59.8. FTD. WOW. Exciting stuff.
The rest of the day was spent taking pix, making the autocross awards
(the FTD trophy was not done yet, but I got a botle of wine and a nifty
medallion). The MOTRAH qualifier was WET. There was some attrition -
Dennis Delap had an off at 7. The car was in rough shape. But Dennis was
okay. The Aero 8's were cleary "ringers" - next time we gotta get Sam
Halkias in his E Prod TR6 or Bill Warner in the TR6 or TR8 or Vern in the
Slagle cars out there. Bill Babcock was looking good in Peyote, but so was
Alan Washatko in the TR6. Alan had an off at 14 bent some steel and the
steering rack - but he was back in the AM for the feature.
Last event of the day was a persuit race - owing to the rain, a lot of
cars didn't take the green. But Henry, Randy Williams a Plus 4 and Kermit
in a Morgan trike did. Henry managed to take the lead with about 2 laps to
go, but had an off at Canada slipping back to third. He managed to catch
and pass the Randy and the Morgan and pulled the Mog neck and neck to the
checker. WOW.
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