[Fot] Milwaukee Mile...

BillDentin at aol.com BillDentin at aol.com
Mon Sep 7 09:25:09 MDT 2009


Amici...

Bob Wismer ran his Lola S2 in a Midwestern Council event at the Milwaukee 
Mile yesterday.  My grandson Matt and I crewed for him.  While I've lived in 
the Milwaukee area all of my life, and attended Champ car races at the Mile 
on occasion, I've never raced the road course circuit there.  An interesting 
circuit claiming ten turns, but one could argue about that.  It's mostly 
four flat, parallel straights and the turns that get you to them.  They had a 
vintage session.  Scott and Jerry Barr ran Scott's Spitfire.  It was good to 
see Jerry in the driver's seat.  He's had his helmet on the shelf for a 
spell while he mended from some foot surgery.  Son Scott wrenched at this 
event.  The car looked great and sounded very strong on the straights.  They'll 
switch positions at ROAD AMERICA next weekend for the Elkhart Lake Vintage 
Festival.

There was a sad incident in the first practice session of the day when 
Glade Snodgrass' Spitfire took a very hard hit to the wall.  Glade is a great 
racer and he goes FAST.  But a Datsun 510 had an oil filter O ring fail, thus 
messing up turn 9 at the end of the front straight for those that followed.  
It got very exciting soon thereafter.  I am sure there are lots of parts to 
salvage from the car, but like I said, it was a very hard hit, and the 
Spitfire showed it.  As they say, "It could've been worse."  And thankfully 
Glade was sore, but fine.

Bill Dentinger



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