[Fot] RiffRAF Racing Rockingham Race Report

[Jamie Palmer]

Got a lot of kind words today from the FOT list...thanks again for welcoming
us!

Jamie




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From: "n197tr4 at cs.com"
<n197tr4 at cs.com>
To: tr6driver at yahoo.com; fot at autox.team.net
Sent: Mon, March
14, 2011 10:40:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] RiffRAF Racing Rockingham Race Report
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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