[Fot] 24 hours in a TR

[Richard Taylor]

The other wrinkle in Triumph trips is driving a racecar to the track. In the
last 13 years, ole #197 ran 29 races. Most of them were at the home track of
Road Atlanta (60 miles from my shop). Two have been 600 mile trips (one way)
to Mid Ohio, 2 to Daytona (450 miles), 2 to VIR (375 miles [one trip back
home was on the hook - crankshaft failure])and 3 to Savannah (200 miles).

It was entered in every enduro that was available. 

As a street car, it is cramped, stiff and uncomfortable. As a racecar it is
heavy, softly suspended and underpowered (self imposed redline = 5.5K).

For a nice old man like me, it is damn near perfect. 

Richard Taylor
TR-4 #196 


-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of yellow04 at tr4racer.com
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 5:57 PM
To: Jason Ostrowski
Cc: Amici Triumphi
Subject: Re: [Fot] 24 hours in a TR

Great winter topic, Jason!

The 04 TR4 was not a good long distance racer,  the all out sprint race
engine did not like the 1 hour enduros I ran. But I am not sure what got
tired out first, the car or the driver! 

I never was too successful in getting my head into the endurance race mode,
I tried to get into a rhythm of slow and smooth with interesting results. I
usually turned my best lap time of the weekend.

The current build of the 04 car with stock crank, rods and a set of
Hepolites with a close ratio overdrive gearbox might make a better endurance
car. Hopefully someone will buy it and find out!

Jason Ostrowski <jason at multivintage.com> wrote:

>The 24 hour race at Daytona this weekend got me thinking.
>It seems that Sebring is usually mentioned as the endurance testing 
>grounds for Triumphs (at least here in the U.S)... lots of action there 
>with a few different TR models.
>I am aware of some attempts by the factory teams to complete the 24 
>hours of LeMans. (early years)
>
>Anyway, anyone have any insight as to who and what car might hold the
>(Triumph) record for most distance covered in a competition event?
>Sebring, Daytona, LeMans, Lemons? I know some of our own FoT guys did 
>well in the late 50's at Sebring...I remember hearing of a guy driving 
>a TR3 for over 11 hours in that event (There are some great photos of 
>this group on our own FoT website)
>
>This is just for fun ....Remember, It gets really cold here in Chicago 
>and I need an interesting FoT topic.
>
>Whats the longest you have driven a Triumph in competition?
>
>Jason Ostrowski
>Friendly Ghost Racing
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