[Fot] Driving to the track in the race car

[robert bownes]

Oscar Kovaleski used to drive his McLaren to/from Watkins Glen. It was
apparently quite teh sight flying down Rt 17....


On 10/15/07, Marx Christian tr4-racing <chris at tr4-racing.de> wrote:
>
> My car before its way back home....
>
> http://www.tr4-racing.de/pic/2005/zolder/zolder4_ex.JPG
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Ernest Husmann
>   To: William G Rosenbach ; chris at tr4-racing.de
>   Cc: fot at autox.team.net
>   Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:33 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Fot] Driving to the track in the race car
>
>
>   Stop it, please stop.  All this talk about driving to the track just may
> reverse a twenty year trend of bigger trailers and tow vehicles. If this
> were
> to happen do you know what would happen to the economy.  Not to mention
> the
> day dreams that would affect the actions of young children.
>   wink wink nudge nudge
>
>   William G Rosenbach <wgrosenbach at juno.com> wrote:
>     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"
>     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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