Hi Peter,
I am very thankful to hear your opinion and insight. I may have met you before
but it was brief. I have seen your race cars a gazillion times at various
tracks.
I have to admit that I hung out with the Ferarris and Maserati a good part of
saturday. They were/are absolutely stunning to say the least. How did you
calculate the $35 mil of value. I know that the 250GT is quite valuable and
even moreso the 250GTO. I didn't know that they went up that much in value.
Yep, the historic stock cars were boring.
I still hope to get to Mid-Ohio this year.
It is interesting to see actual numbers and percentages. I was just going by
the feel of the paddock and empty spaces. It just hurts me to see it slow down
a bit. I am sure that you understand what I mean. You have to be a bigger fan
than I as you have been involved for longer.
I would love to see Summit Point come back with the SVRA Blue/gray challenge
and the Jefferson 500 etc. Those events were what dreams are made of to me.
Again thanks very much for your input. I value it and I am sure that others on
this list find this interesting also!
Mike Carpenter
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Peter L. Krause" <peter@peterkrause.net>
>Sent: Jun 9, 2008 12:16 PM
>To: vintage-race@autox.team.net, "Rharring@Idirect. Com" <rharring@idirect.com>
>Subject: [Vintage-race] VIR and other vintage races
>
>Gee Mike, sorry you got out of the wrong side of bed this morning! <grin>
>I found the 180-odd entrants at VIR this past weekend to be quite
>satisfactory. That and the presence of several rare and unusual Lola T-70
>Spiders (3, at last count), thirty-five million dollars worth of Ferraris
>RACING (including one of 36 250 GTO's, a sight rarely seen outside of
>Monterey) and the close racing of a dozen cars in more than one race group
>covered by less than a second in lap times to be pretty much what I want to
>see when I go to the races... <very big grin> Yes, the heat was a pain, but
>the lap times were pretty quick and people seemed to be smiling anyway.
>
>Sure, Historic stock cars are not everyone's cup of tea, just as thirty year
>old Sports 2000 cars may not be either, but at least in the S2 race, the top
>three were covered by less than three tenths of a second and the second
>group of FOUR cars had a margin of victory of less than twenty-THOUSANDTHS
>of a second! Hah! A good class of twelve of those cars alone, would have
>been great to have Jim F. there with us!
>
>There were three race groups with at least twenty-eight entries and the
>Formula Vee and Bugeye Sprite races were not to be missed. The Ve race was
>won on the last turn of the last lap. Margin of victory less than a tenth.
>
>I'm sure BeaveRun will at least meet it's turnout of the ten to twelve dozen
>cars over the last two years, thanks to the diligent efforts of race chair
>Ralph Steinberg and the Mid-Ohio SVRA event will be fine, too.
>
>I find it interesting that in spite of gas prices, people still race just as
>avidly. SVRA Savannah was up 10%, VDCA VIR was up 33% and VSCCA VIR was up
>50% over last year. Gold Cup was down, but that is to be expected after the
>huge 50th anniversary promotion last year. Only two out of nine years of
>Gold Cup entry numbers have been higher than this year.
>
>I heard this past weekend that Steve Earle is likely passing on renewing his
>contract for Labor Day at Lime Rock (probably a good thing since his
>"vision" does not embrace "the great unwashed" culture of the East <grin>)
>and that VRG and Brian Redman are definitely on for May of next year at
>Summit Point.
>
>The future sounds pretty good to me, Mike.
>
>-Peter
>
>--
>Peter Krause
>www.peterkrause.net
>(919) 740-1871
>"The Driver is the Greatest Performance Variable in the Racing Equation."
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