[Fot] Rumortime, an E-prod TR-3 on treaded tires???

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Mike,

Hey I know you had a good time, and you finished, and you checked off a bucket list item.
Not so bad from my perspective.
Don’t show my grammar to Sandy OK??

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From: Fot [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Mike Jackson via Fot
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2019 8:13 AM
To: fubog1 <fubog1 at aol.com>; fot at Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: [Fot] Rumortime, an E-prod TR-3 on treaded tires???

Yes, it was me (English teacher wife says it should be Yes, it was I) with my vintage TR3 in the  SCCA race last weekend at Palm Beach International Raceway.  Here is a link to us on the grid for the race
 https://www.dropbox.com/s/kixjcx4ubusmbtf/on%20the%20grid.jpg?dl=0  And yes, it was on Hoosier Vintage tires.

I'm a 31 year member of SCCA and I've held a National license for all those years but had NEVER been in an actual classed race with any car meeting the requirements of a class.  I'd long held a desire to do so before I retired from racing but I'm too cheap to rent a modern race car.

It had been a while since I'd driven my beautiful and well prepared TR3 (thanks to Glen Efinger!) and reviewing the upcoming options to do so, most interfered with family travel plans for the summer.  So, since this event was essentially in my back yard.....6 miles from my driveway.....it was the perfect opportunity.  For the previous month I sucked up to the Chief of Tech and the Race Chairman to let the things that prevented my car from being fully EP legal slide for this one time.  That worked well and we slid thru registration and tech with not a flinch.

The next opportunity for it to go bad was on the grid.  But, as you can see in the pic, there I was next to a fully prepared Spitfire driven by my friend and team mate Tim Slater.  Then, I hold my breath for the first couple of laps wondering if the stewards (SCCA has a ton of them at every event) would have me black flagged.  They did not.

Here's the bottom line - there must be something to those flares/slicks/fancy suspension/fancy brakes/after market transmissions and on and on.  Tim's yellow Spit quickly became a dot ahead of me in spite of my lap times being in the range of what I can turn on this same track in a vintage race.   For a while I was able to hold off the VW that was running last.  But, even that didnt work for the entire 15 lap race and my 30+ year friend and I eventually finished dead f&^ing last.  Oh, well.

But, I have now checked off one more item from the list of things I'd like to achieve.

Mike
Subject: [Fot] Rumortime, an E-prod TR-3 on treaded tires???
I don't have any details, (I know nuthink!), but scuttlebutt is that a certain Vintage driver (name withheld to avoid possible embarrassment) showed up with a Vintage TR-3 racecar with Vintage treaded tires on it, down at PBIR this past weekend... but... the problem was that it was a SCCA SAARC Regional race, no Vintage class.
Not to be deterred by that minor detail, a couple pieces of white paper and a home printer produced a very nice "EP"... and it was "off to the races" for our intrepid Vintage race...

Glen
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