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Re: Maxton

To: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Re: Maxton
From: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 08:24:21 -0700
Keith
Thanks for the input, sorry to hear about Joe's mother. we send out prayers.
Glen & Carol
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>; "Tonya Hanley" <tonyasplace2@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:05 AM
Subject: Maxton


> Well another race at Maxton has come and gone.... Joe Timney's mother
passed
> away and he was unable to make it.... I just wanted to start this off by
> passing along all of our heart felt condolences to Joe...
>
> Joe being our Chief timer caused some interesting moments... but John
> Beckett's back up plans worked out real well...  Saturday was a bit slow
and
> confusing to start, but it picked up around mid morning and got REAL
confusing
> ( teasing John ) things actually ran real smooth....
>
> The Whole ECTA volunteer group is to be commended for handling the meet
> extremely well.... amazing group of people who continue to work their
butt's
> off.
>
> We had a couple of entry's into the Two Club on Motorcycles...  Wayne
Pollack
> and Mike Shamma's....  and quite frankly that is getting tougher and
tougher
> to do... we had a fella run 208mph and NOT set a record....   The whole
idea
> that someday the record books would fill up is actually taking place...
>
> I had the booster seat in the Camaro and Tonya Hanley was the designated
> driver... She's never driven a race car and quite frankly this was a
challenge
> I just couldn't resist...  She wanted to drive and since she's got a cute
> little tush... well you get the picture...  Seriously she brings some
great
> organizational skills to the table... Anyway we made 5 passes with her in
the
> car.... started out with a No Time trip to the grocery store....  then ran
> 109...129... and backed it up with a 126 with a Red Light in the cockpit
for
> Water Temp.... She handled it perfectly and shut it down...  Then once it
was
> cool and the water refilled she ran 133.871mph for her best speed...
>
> Keep in mind this was her first time inside a car with all the noise... so
the
> only goal we had was the D Lic.... and we accomplished that.... very cool
> really...
>
> I'm going to write a New Driver e-mail just to get this put in the
> archives...
>
> Keith

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