[Fot] RiffRAF Racing Rockingham Race Report

[n197tr4 at cs.com]

 This is VERY COOL and another facet of what we do.

 Thanks for sharing this.

ChumpCar and 24 Hours of LEMONS   has taken off.

We have two ChumpCar events in our area, coming up and I would like to
attend....time permitting.   ha!

I think John Nikas participated in a TR7 and Bob Kramer is involved with a
TR6.

JA










-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Palmer <tr6driver at yahoo.com>
To: Friends of Triumph <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 9:18 am
Subject: [Fot] RiffRAF Racing Rockingham Race Report


I honestly wasn't trying to see how many alliterative "R's" I could get into

the

title...it just worked out that way.



Anyway, for those of you

interested, we competed in two ChumpCar 7-hour

endurance races at "The Rock"

(road course configuration) this weekend with our

1975 TR6 "Lacey".  There's

only one class, so we were out there with everything

from a '64 Chevy pickup

(!) to a BMW E36, Miatas, Mustangs, Fieros, Saabs,

Nissan Z's and a really

quick Mercedes 300.



Saturday, we had some off-course excursions and some

imperfect fuel strategy,

ended up in 12th place -- although we were pretty

happy because the car ran well

all day and that's the best finish we've ever

had (27 cars competed this

weekend).



Sunday was even better, with the team

driving more consistently and fueling

going better.  We ran top-5 most of the

day, but a late race "splash and

go" stop dropped us to 6th at the checker.

Still was phenominal as far as we

were concerned since we finished ahead of a

LOT of much faster cars due to

consistency.  For all but one of our

drivers this was either our 3rd and 4th or

4th and 5th races ever, so we're

pretty happy right now.





To top it all off, the team received the "Spirit

of Chump" award as the team

that "gets" what ChumpCar is all about, drives

well and courteously, and gets

more out of their car that anyone has a right

to expect...



Our next race is a 14 hour event at Charlotte Motor Speedway

(road course

configuration) April 23...if anyone out there is interested in

joining us or

forming a ChumpCar or LeMons team of their own, shoot me an

email and we'll be

happy to help!



Jamie Palmer

Squadron Leader

RiffRAF

Racing

'75 TR6 ChumpCar

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