[Fot] Driving to the track in the race car

[N197TR4 at cs.com]

FoT Richard Taylor currently & totally redefines DRIVING TO THE TRACK.

TR4 #196 with trailer hitch & trailer with racewheels and motorcycle.

>Driving your racecar to the track gives you a different mind set at the
>event, you can break your ride home. Trailering gives more peace of mind,
>knowing if you break it, you can still get home. I generally drove my car
>to vintage races. Once in a snow storm with no heat or wipers. 
>
>Rocky Mountain Vintage Racing, has a member who last year celebrated his
>100th RMVR event as a driver. Bill Miller drives his almost original,
>stock, as delivered, Shelby GT-350 H to & from events. Packs everything
>he needs for the weekend in it, including Gerry Cans of fuel. This
>summer, he drove it from Denver to Miller MSP in Utah. He ONLY runs it on
>race fuel, so no just stopping at the Mini-Mart. That 100 events does NOT
>include the about half again that many other events & track days he & his
>steed have participated in. I believe he has been towed home twice, in
>all that time.
>
>Chek Beuf, an original owner of an original 427 Cobra, used to drive it,
>on race slicks, to the track.
>We had several appearances by a TR-3 which pulled a trailer with its race
>tyres & support materials.
>Original owner of  an original Porsche 912 (looking like it just came off
>the showroom floor), has been driving to & from the track for years now.
>My car broke in Steamboat one year, Clive Averill loaded my car on his
>trailer and I drove his GT-6 back to Denver (you cannot believe how good
>that 2 litre six sounds at full chat, with no muffler, in the Johnson
>tunnel!).
>
>RMVR has an Historic Group, that encourages entries that are more what
>the factory produced, not what can be built from the catalogs. We have
>the Danny Colins Cup award, for that group. Points are awarded for
>driving To & From the track. 
>
>If the point of the exercise is to recreate, reenact, racing from earlier
>years, we would drive to & from the track, time with analog stop watches.
>Like that's going to happen.
>
>Bill
>70 GT-6+
>
>On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:14:10 +0200 "Marx Christian tr4-racing"
><chris at tr4-racing.de> writes:
>> It not only me who is absolutly nuts and driving the expensive racing 
>> car on
>> its own wheels to the track....here is another one.....with some 
>> bucks more to
>> spend...
>> 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOE9sjsV15w
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