[Fot] Why the dearth of Spitfire vintage racers?

[RACER BUD]

I'm the only spitfire racing with CSRG in Nor  calif...
Racer Bud
spitfire #21
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barr, Scott" <sbarr at McCarty-Law.com>
To: <britbits at netzero.com>; <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Why the dearth of Spitfire vintage racers?


> Are there more of us Spitfires racing here in the northern latitudes?
> There are quite a few Spitfires around here - not as many as there are
> Spridgets, but still a good number of us.
> 
> Scott B.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Jim
> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:40 PM
> To: fot at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Fot] Why the dearth of Spitfire vintage racers?
> 
> Just got back from a weekend of vintage racing with the Corinthians
> Vintage
> Auto Racing group as the new track near Dallas (Eagle Canyon Raceway)
> and
> one burning question popped into mind:
> 
> What's the ratio of Spitfires vs Austin Healey Sprite/MG Midgets in
> vintage
> racing?
> 
> In CVAR there's a gent named Roger Williams that originated a "Spec
> Sprite"
> class in CVAR, (basically a post 1970 Spriget bodyshell with barely
> warmed
> over 1275 and a $35 Firestone spec tire) and directly built a bunch and
> encouraged others to build more.  Those cars have bounced between FP and
> Spec Sprite over the last 10 years depending upon owner's budget and
> willingness to be honest.  So that may skew the numbers a tad.
> 
> This weekend there were roughly 12 Spridgets (8 FP and 4 Spec Sprite)..
> And
> only 1 Spitfire in FP.  In 15 years I've only ever seen 4 different
> Spitfires (3 round tail and 1 squaretail "Mk IV" ;) and never witnessed
> more
> than one Spitfire running at a time.
> 
> On the flip side, if I counted cars using Spitfire (ok, Herald) based
> front
> suspensions the ratio gets turned over, when you condider the Loti, FF,
> and
> token TVRs that show up from time to time.
> 
> Back to the subject line, is it purely the rear swing axle/diff issue?
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jim
> Dallas
> 
> 
> 
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