Ah, Mark,
My name and Jim Clark's in the same message....Wow!
No one appreciates more than I the disparity between my red & yellow
Crossle' FF, and the green & yellow race cars of classic Team Lotus! And,
Wendover IVR is a long, long, way from Indy, and generations removed from
'60's F1. Certainly a wider still gap separates Clark's skills and my own
late life, "Walter Mitty" efforts.
Racing, for me, like all other life endeavors, is a matter of doing what I
can, with what I have, at the time and place available. Participation,
association, and identification are worthy and fitting rewards. If they
inspire even a fleeting tribute to a real champion, so much the better!
Now, if I could just find a pair of those vintage knit back driving gloves!
Bob Allred - Riverton, Utah
Miata & Crossle' 32
Club Racing & Solo Events
<www.inconnect.com/~rallred>
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark J. Bradakis <mjb@cs.utah.edu>
To: <vintage-race@autox.team.net>; <team-thicko@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: Gee but I'd love to hear that again
> Gee, funny you should say such a thing. Last weekend Intermountain
Vintage
> Racing had a drivers school weekend out at Wendover, Utah. At one point I
> was standing by the side of the Enola Gay hangar, watching the open wheel
cars
> strut their stuff. Bob Allred in a Crossle Formula Ford came down the
front
> straight at full chat heading into the front kink, and as he zipped by me
I
> had a fleeting flashback.
>
> Years ago, one of the salesman who called upon the company where my father
> worked lived in Indianapolis, a few blocks from the track. He and my dad
> were buddies, and our family often traveled from South Bend down to Indy
for
> the qualifying weekends. I vaguely recall early to mid sixties, as the A.
J.
> Watson Roadsters and such were pushed into the history books by the up and
> coming rear engined cars.
>
> So there I was a week ago, standing around at an old Air Force facility in
> the western desert as a Formula Ford went by. And for an extremely brief
but
> very succinct moment I heard Jim Clark in a little green Lotus
accelerating
> out of turn 4 and across a yard of bricks.
>
> mjb.
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