See my later response. Nothing like have a trophy to prove it! :)
--Pat K
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>From: Kenneth Allan Mitchell <nokones@kenmitchell.com>
>To: Pat Kelly <lollipop487@attbi.com>
>Cc: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>, "BayArea Team.Net"
<ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Nat Tour @ Castle
>Date: Mon, May 6, 2002, 6:08 PM
>
> Negative on the confused. The Golden Gate National Tour, sponsored by an
> Asian tire company, was held April April 24-25, 1993 at Crows Landing. I
> have two first place trophies hanging on my wall from that event. One is
> for me in ESP and the other is for Marcella in ESPL.
>
>
> Pat Kelly wrote:
>>
>> I know we hosted a Pro at Crows, but am not aware of a Tour. I think youi're
>> confused. :)
>> --Pat K
>>
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>> >From: Kenneth Allan Mitchell <nokones@kenmitchell.com>
>> >To: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>
>> >Cc: "BayArea Team.Net" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>> >Subject: Re: Nat Tour @ Castle
>> >Date: Mon, May 6, 2002, 5:11 PM
>> >
>>
>> > John:
>> >
>> > This may be our first National Tour at Castle but its not the first
>> > National Tour conducted by our region. Our region conducted/hosted a
>> > National Tour about 10 years ago at Crows Landing.
>> >
>> > "John F. Kelly Jr." wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Our first-ever SCCA National Tour event at Castle Field in Atwater, CA,
>> >> came off extremely well.
>> >> There were 276 entries, however, not everybody made it to the
>> >> event.
>> >> The weather was sunny and breezy.
>> >> The concrete surface had a light layer of concrete dust on it
>> >> through which the first run group cleared an 8-ft. wide swath each
morning.
>> >>
>> >> I'm sure we'll hear/read about other aspects of this event from
>> >> people who were there and even from people who weren't. <G>
>> >> My own experience was generally positive but dealing with the
>> >> scales caised more than a bit of grief on several competitors, including
>> >> Frank Stagnaro in C Prepared and Jim Tikijian in D Prepared. Frank's car
>> >> was 4 pounds under his minimum. He was assessed a two-second time penalty
>> >> and came back to win the class. Jim was about 25 pounds under in his
1098cc
>> >> Spridget and they gave him the slowest time in class plus a two-second
>> >> penalty.
>> >> After Pat's Sunday runs our Lotus 7A--packing over 210 additional
>> >> pounds of ballast!-- weighed in just one (1) pound over the minimum. Whew.
>> >> For my runs two run groups later I stashed five (5) pounds of tools
(Silver
>> >> tape and nylon ties held it together) into the back of the car. When
>> >> weighed the car was now at 1212 pounds. Where the other six pounds came
>> >> from is a mystery. Jim's penalty moved me to second in DP, only 5.5
seconds
>> >> behind Chris Kannan. The "equalizer Ballast mandated by the SEB certainly
>> >> did its job. Chris Kannan loaned his class-winning Honda to Paula Whitney
>> >> who was second after Saturday but she felt ill on Sunday and didn't drive.
>> >> Jeanne's Wienies provided/sold hot dogs and ran out! The Jesus
>> >> Villarreal dinner party under the wing of an air museum's aircraft was a
>> >> great social gathering.
>> >>
>> >> --John Kelly
>> >
>> > --
>> > Kenneth Allan Mitchell
>> > mailto:nokones@kenmitchell.com
>
> --
> Kenneth Allan Mitchell
> mailto:nokones@kenmitchell.com
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