[Fot] GRATTAN Raceway...

[Greg And Alison Blake]

Sam,

Did you capture any video of the race with the Z that you can share?  Would
love to watch.

Greg

> On Aug 25, 2014, at 2:38 PM, Sam Halkias <atr6racer at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dave,
>      Good to see you last weekend! Track was very fast! A bit hot but
that's
> what we expect in August! Sat race was fun with the Z car, we both were
under
> the E/P lap record  with me resetting my current lap record at 1:24.75 .
> Sunday was a tad cooler and not as humid and the car took off and ran away
> from the field. On lap  20 my brake pedal got soft in turn one, barely made
> the corner, it did not get better and by the bowl I had what felt like a
> locked caliper, and to make things worse I spun in someone oil right after
the
> bowl, and knew it was over. Did not hit anything and upon further
inspection
> this morning I discovered a RF inner wheel bearing had destroyed itself,
thus
> the soft pedal. But I lowered the lap record to a 1:24.28. So all in all not
a
> bad weekend, just have to step up my wheel bearing maintenance as the new
Hawk
> DTC-70's are making more heat!
>
> Sam
>
>> On Aug 24, 2014, at 9:55 PM, "David Kettler" <dkettler1 at charter.net>
wrote:
>>
>> Race report from Sunday's Grattan race.  Sam did not do too well. Not sure
> what happened but the 240 Z won today.
>>
>> Dave
>>> On 8/24/2014 9:49 AM, BillDentin at aol.com wrote:
>>> Amici...
>>>
>>> I received an email from Dave Kettler, who is helping run an SCCA event
at
>>> Grattan Raceway this week end.  Dave's been to a ton of race tracks
around
>>> the country, but this was his first trip to Grattan.  He got to be a
>>> passenger in the pace car for the Production Car race yesterday, and was
> totally
>>> impressed with the challenges that Grattan provides.
>>>
>>> Incidentally, while we had a bunch of TRIUMPHs at Grattan Raceway last
> week
>>> end, there is only one there this week end.  But when that TRIUMPH is Sam
>>> Halkias...one is enough.  He got around a 240Z to win the Prod Race.
>>>
>>> HOORAY four our side!
>>>
>>> Bill Dentinger
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