[Fot] The Good, The Bad, The ugly

[marty]

The good. I ran the newly revised PittRace circuit this past weekend. WOW. It is incredible. I liked the old track but the new track is 2.8 miles long, major elevation changes, blind corners, downhill esses, lots and lots and lots of paved paddock space, three showers located throughout the paddock. VRG does an incredible job putting this event on each July. This is a must do on my calendar from now on. My suggestion to you is try it!
 
The bad. Car ran great all weekend and driver did surprisingly well. I was happy as a pig in mud. The game plan for Sunday was to do the morning session and skip out on the afternoon session as rain was heading our way and due to hit around midafternoon. Went out for the morning session and two laps in a cylinder dropped out. Easy fix, when I had the distributer cap off to check the points the night before I must have partially popped a wire loose and it came out on track during that session.
 
The ugly. Since the morning session was a washout I decided to stick around and run the afternoon session. Had an awesome race going. Passing, getting passed and dicing it out with three cars close to mine in performance. I was grinning ear to ear until an Alpha Romeo GTV spun and shot across the racing surface and t-boned me. Nothing I could do to avoid him and since he had about 1000 pounds on me I lost.  I am hoping the frame did not get bent but it looks like I will need a bonnet, driver’s door, Drivers side suspension components, a TR8 wheel, possibly a steering rack, possibly a radiator, front valance. That’s what I can conclude from a visual inspection once I got home and got the car off the trailer. Bummed but as they say, that’s racin.
 
Marty 		 	   		  
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