[Fot] Watkin's Glen

[Bill Babcock]

I assume it was--pretty fast

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On Sep 8, 2008, at 7:15 PM, "Jay Creel" <jaxonracing at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Was Sam driving his SCCA car?
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bill Babcock <Billb at bnj.com>
> To: Paul MacDonald <macdonaldp at rogers.com>
> Cc: fot at autox.team.net
> Sent: Monday, September 8, 2008 9:40:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Watkin's Glen
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> Yeah, I meant Turn One, not two, and I saw it on the ground the next  
> lap--thought it was a hose myself. Probably should have gone back  
> after the races and picked it up, it wasn't an inexpensive bit.
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> As I recall there were two TR6's, Tony and the TR250K and me--they  
> waved me in because I missed the presentation for Group 4.Ttony was  
> second, Sam was first and Jim stoufer was third. You might be  
> talking about Tom Kreger--he blew up. http://www.mylaps.com/results/showrun.jsp?id=951067
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> On Sep 8, 2008, at 8:32 PM, Paul MacDonald wrote:
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>>  It turns out I lost a shock: GONE. All that's left is the lower  
>> eye. No idea what happened except we had to remount the shock in  
>> single shear because it was binding.
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>> We saw the shock drop off the car on corner one, it looked like a  
>> coolant hose from where I was in the grandstand (black tube).
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>> I finished fifth, turned about a second slower than the group 4  
>> race and two seconds slower than the qualifying race, but I would  
>> have had to pick up two seconds over my best time (2.222--pretty  
>> cool considering Peyote's number is 222) to be in contention for  
>> fourth, four seconds to do anything about third or second and TEN  
>> seconds to give Sam any trouble.
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>> What happened to the other TR6 driver that got third place? He  
>> didn't  go to the Victory circle presentation. I took pictures of  
>> the four cars that were there, then when I got a copy of the  
>> results noticed that one car was missing.
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