[Fot] COTA TR6

[Bob Kramer]

Thanks Bill, a very entertaining tribute and exceeding even your lofty standards!

 

Bob

 

From: billdentin at aol.com [mailto:billdentin at aol.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 3:49 PM
To: rkramer3 at austin.rr.com; triosan at gmail.com; fot at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] COTA TR6

 

Bob...

 

Me thinks thou doust make light of your great effort.  

 

What did Henry V say about the St. Crispin's Day battle?  Shakespere says he said, "From this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered.  We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.  For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here.  And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."

 

Sounds to me like that fits just as well for that band of brothers (the Bob(s), Greg, Bobby, Dusty, and Richard), who held their heads high and took on the giants.

 

Hip, hip hooray!

 

Bill Dentinger

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Kramer < <mailto:rkramer3 at austin.rr.com> rkramer3 at austin.rr.com>
To: 'Chuck Arnold and/or Kathleen Kelley' < <mailto:triosan at gmail.com> triosan at gmail.com>; 'Friends' < <mailto:fot at autox.team.net> fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tue, Dec 6, 2016 12:38 pm
Subject: Re: [Fot] COTA TR6

We had six drivers, most from the FOT list. Greg and Bob Blake, Bobby Whitehead, Dusty Nicholson, Richard Ceraldi and myself. All of us race other Triumphs and Richard has a GT6 street car and a Mini Cooper he does HPDE’s in.  The car progressed from a Lemon’s rat roller to a reasonable race car over time. I supervised the build of the original car and Greg and I have both done significant work  on improving it over time. It did a few Lemon’s weekends, then some Chump races and has competed in three WRL endurance weekends. This was the first one where we completed every lap, every hour. That is not to say we were on the lead laps. There were two factory built BMW M2’s out there a couple of Mustang purpose built racers, and a number of other P cars and  Beemers that lapped us many times. It was fun to race against the Corvettes in the rain, but the smaller Boxsters, S2000 and Miata’s had the better of us. Truth is not only were we the oldest car out there by far, we were also outclassed in speed potential by almost everyone, and in the rain that gapped widened. I did about more than two hours in heavy rain. It wasn’t the “race of a lifetime” but it was fun in a sadistic sort of way. 

 

Bob Kramer

 

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