I agree...I am looking to closer races...at 9mpg towing... anything within 2.5
hours looks better than 8 -12 hours....
Jim Fuerstenberg
'The major
difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot
possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes
wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.' (Douglas
Adams)
----- Original Message ----
From: charles christ
<cfchrist@earthlink.net>
To: Mike/Donna Carpenter
<mail4carpenters@peoplepc.com>; Awgertoo@aol.com; ralph@cloverleaf-auto.com;
vintage-race@autox.team.net
Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 9:34:38 AM
Subject: Re:
[Vintage-race] (no subject)
a 45 minute tow versus a 9 hour tow dictated my
decision this past weekend. i ran weatherly hillclimb and while hurting my
car(mechaniclaicaly) , had more fun than the gas bill towing to one of my
favorite tracks VIR could have been. fuel cost , to tow has over shadowed
entry fees or distances in my case. i'd rather been at VIR!!!!! i fear that
is what evryone has been experiencing is fuel prices ,
it really gripes me.
i have the equiptment , and the gas prices are so high i'm cutting back my
involvement in what i love due to the prices of literlally "getting there"!
at one time entry prices "bothered" me. now it's darn gas prices to tow too
an event and home! we apologise for not being there and offering the
hospitalitality we offer fellow competitors!
saab 93F #251
-----Original
Message-----
>From: Mike/Donna Carpenter <mail4carpenters@peoplepc.com>
>Sent:
Jun 9, 2008 8:35 AM
>To: Awgertoo@aol.com, ralph@cloverleaf-auto.com,
vintage-race@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Vintage-race] (no subject)
>
>
There would have been alot more in your class and the other classes
> had
this been two years ago. There were so many vast empty spaces in
> the
paddock that use to be full.
>
> I sincerely hope that Beaverun and PVGP has
the highest turnouts ever
> as I will for sure be there. I doubt that I go
back to VIR as it has
> shrunk considerably in the last two years and it is
just the factor of
> the drive and to watch modern (muscle) cars 1999
and newer out on
> track kind of blew it. I choose to go to vintage races to
see vintage
> race cars - that is '50s and '60s model cars.
>
> I was with
some friends while at VIR and their consensus turned out to
> be that the air
show was better than the races. The air show actually
> was pretty cool.
However, in the past that was not needed as their
> was so many neat sports
racers and exotic early racers to look at.
>
> I am not saying this to dis
VIR as I have been there so many times and
> I like the race track. It just
hurts to see it dying down along with
> the stupidity that occurred at
Summit Point for the last two years.
> For the last two years, Mid-Ohio has
not had near the turnout that it
> use to either. I hope that this pattern
ends and things pick back up.
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