So you got protested your first event? Ummmmmmm... seems like you still
havent got over that have you?
----- Original Message -----
From: Kelly, Katie <kkelly@spss.com>
To: Bay_Area_Autocross_List <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 11:54 AM
Subject: Glory Days
> Oh the great trike race? I think I was seven or eight, and Maggy was five?
>
> I actually don't remember who put it on or why, except that it was in a
park
> next to the river in Sacramento. I think it was like SFR workers versus
kids
> or something. I remember lots of long hair and shaggy beards. There were
all
> these grown-ups in these handmade, and very fancy tricycles, with gears
and
> handbrakes. And there were all these other kids there with fancy vehicles.
> My sister and I drove her stock Mattel Big Wheel, the kind with the
ribbons
> on the handle bars. We were the known underdogs going in. I remember lots
of
> snickering when we pulled up to the grid.
>
> Maggy was our qualifying driver. She had some problems in the sweepers,
and
> we didn't get such a good starting position. I don't know, she just wasn't
> pushing it very hard. We were pretty close to the back.
>
> It was a LeMans start, and Maggy's start was good. More motivated than in
> the qualifying session, she immediately worked her way up to the front of
> the field. This was an endurance race: two laps each, then driver
> changeover. I don't remember the total number of laps but it felt like
> forever.
>
> What I mostly remember, besides trying to dodge all these other expensive
> trikes, was feeling like I was going to puke. Driving a Big Wheel at its
> absolute limit on the heat in Sacramento is incredibly hard work. For one
> thing, you can't coast.
>
> We won this race, defeating not only our girls division, but the boys
> division, too, and all of the grown-ups. Unfortunately, the trophy just
> says, "Fastest Girls Team." They had no idea that we'd also take TTOD.
> Neither did we.
>
> There was some controversy in the pits, however. Apparently, our driver
> changeovers weren't really "legal." But there was no rule actually
governing
> the changeover process. The protest committee determined that this slight
> changeover variance in no way gave us any inherent performance advantage,
> but we were warned that a future committee might give us a different
> verdict.
>
> Our peers were incensed. The Kelly Girls had developed a reputation as
> overly fierce competitors, willing to stretch our interpretation of the
> rules to win at any cost.
>
> We returned the next year determined to prove that this victory was no
> fluke. The governing body clearly outlined the proper pit speed, a rule
> which we followed. We won again in Maggy's Big Wheel. Meanwhile, my mother
> began her string of Solo II National Championships. The beginnings of
Kelly
> Legacy were now solidly set.
>
> The next year, I was now nine years old, stronger, wiser, and I had my own
> Green Machine, complete with its own spoiler, which I thought could do
some
> damage. My dad worried that this wasn't really the vehicle for the win, so
> he got Maggy this other fancy looking trike. Though there was a bbq, no
one
> else even bothered bringing their trikes, as it turned out. Why bother.
> Those Kelly Girls were turning into buttheads.
>
> That marked the end of an era. The Kelly Legacy, at least on the part of
the
> Kelly Girls, would be put on temporary hold, and in fact, it appears it
> still is. But I'll tell you what: I never lost the fire. The images of
that
> Summer of '77 fuel me to this day.
>
> In an old issue of "The Wheel," circa 1977 I think, there is full coverage
> of the first year's race. There's a picture of Maggy and me performing one
> of our infamous and controversial changeovers. We were very little people
> back then, and even kind of cute in our little matching uniforms. When I
> first saw this spread many years later, it was somewhat disappointing.
What
> I remember is feeling so tough, yet the intensity is somehow lost in the
> photo. All you see are these two blond kids playing with a Big Wheel in a
> park.
>
> Katie K.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pat Kelly [mailto:lollipop@ricochet.net]
> > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 10:26 PM
> > To: lllllsharp
> > Cc: Kelly, Katie; Steven J. Sherwood; Jerry Mouton; s4wood@yahoo.com;
> > Bay_Area_Autocross_List
> > Subject: Re: Guess what i just found...
> >
> >
> > some other time; maybe Katie will tell it. :-) It was Katie &
> > Maggy who
> > did the deed.
> > --Pat K
> >
> > lllllsharp wrote:
> > >
> > > Can we hear more about this great tricycle race Pat?
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Pat Kelly <lollipop@ricochet.net>
> > > To: Kelly, Katie <kkelly@spss.com>
> > > Cc: 'lllllsharp' <lllllsharp@email.msn.com>; Steven J. Sherwood
> > > <ssher@home.com>; Jerry Mouton <jerry@moutons.org>;
> > <s4wood@yahoo.com>;
> > > Bay_Area_Autocross_List <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> > > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 8:14 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Guess what i just found...
> > >
> > > > Actually a little sooner than that, unless we start with
> > the great trike
> > > > race in Sacramento. But that's another story.
> > > > --Pat Kelly
> > > >
> > > > "Kelly, Katie" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Well, gee, if you call yourself mature...
> > > > >
> > > > > Katie
> > > > >
> > > > > I started autocrossing when I was four.
> > > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: lllllsharp [mailto:lllllsharp@email.msn.com]
> > > > > > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 7:30 PM
> > > > > > To: Kelly, Katie; Steven J. Sherwood; Jerry Mouton
> > > > > > Cc: s4wood@yahoo.com; Bay_Area_Autocross_List
> > > > > > Subject: Re: Guess what i just found...
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Somehow one year does not matter much Katie I think Ill
> > > > > > include you in the
> > > > > > mature group too
> > > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > From: Kelly, Katie <kkelly@spss.com>
> > > > > > To: 'lllllsharp' <lllllsharp@email.msn.com>; Steven
> > J. Sherwood
> > > > > > <ssher@home.com>; Jerry Mouton <jerry@moutons.org>
> > > > > > Cc: <s4wood@yahoo.com>; Bay_Area_Autocross_List
> > > > > > <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> > > > > > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 5:07 PM
> > > > > > Subject: RE: Guess what i just found...
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Yes, you are all old now, and you'll note that my name is
> > > > > > NOT on those
> > > > > > > results. 1985 is WAY before my time.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Katie Kelly
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > P.S. Mike Camicia was my autocross instructor... in
> > January of 1986.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > > > From: lllllsharp [mailto:lllllsharp@email.msn.com]
> > > > > > > > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 3:21 PM
> > > > > > > > To: Steven J. Sherwood; Jerry Mouton
> > > > > > > > Cc: s4wood@yahoo.com; Bay_Area_Autocross_List
> > > > > > > > Subject: Re: Guess what i just found...
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I didnt think I was that old .. geez I looked at
> > those names
> > > > > > > > and said wow ..
> > > > > > > > they are old now ...
> > > > > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > > > From: Steven J. Sherwood <ssher@home.com>
> > > > > > > > To: Jerry Mouton <jerry@moutons.org>
> > > > > > > > Cc: <s4wood@yahoo.com>; Bay_Area_Autocross_List
> > > > > > > > <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> > > > > > > > Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 6:30 PM
> > > > > > > > Subject: Guess what i just found...
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Goofin around in my garage just now I found a printout
> > > > > > > > > of results from an autocross in 1985 at Alameda Cnty
> > > > > > > > > Fairgrounds...guess who was on the list?
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > It would be too hard...I will just tell you...
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Jesus Villareal (Jesus, whats with the Villarea"D"?)
> > > > > > > > > Jack Van Wetterling (VW Scirocco)
> > > > > > > > > Charlie Davis
> > > > > > > > > Art Allen
> > > > > > > > > Frank Stagnaro
> > > > > > > > > Larry Sharp
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > BTW, that was my first autox ever...I stunk back then
> > > > > > > > > too...I did a fun run with a time of 36.765 and I
> > > > > > > > > really improved on my second run...36.764...yes, I
> > > > > > > > > improved 0.001 second. :-)
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Steve
> > > > > > > > > #47 CSP
> > > > > > > > > 00 Audi S4
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> >
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