[Fot] Jeff 500

yellow04 yellow04 at tr4racer.com
Mon May 16 20:41:42 MDT 2022


It was another great weekend at the track, and yes, I was motivated by a 
very well driven 914. But John is burying the lead here, driving a full 
enduro is tough. And when our resident octogenarian does it, that is 
beyond amazing! You are my hero, John!

Our big bore group had a fantastic showing, pitting our TR4's, GT6's, 
TR250 and TR6 against some stiff competition from Germany, Italy, Japan 
and Britain. And some not so stiff competition in the form of a dozen or 
so Miatas! The weather played a part on Friday with us qualifying in the 
wet, somehow I qualified 4th. The first race put a pair of Miatas on the 
front row, as soon as the track dried a bit during the second half of 
the race they were dispatched with and it was the 250 and rainmiester 
Wheatley sitting on the front row for Saturday morning race. In the 
afternoon feature race, the leaders set a blistering pace by lapping all 
but 7 cars, and four of the cars on the lead lap were Triumphs! The 
TR250 prevailed in an entertaining battle with a the aforementioned 914, 
Mike Moore took third, Scott Janzen fourth, and Mark Wheatley sixth. 
Jason Sukey had a really strong run, as did Mike Kurtz who is doing a 
great job finding the feel for his TR6.

One particularly interesting moment occurred late in the race when I 
experienced a traffic jam in the carousel. We were coming up through 
lapped traffic as we approached the carousel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBj-HbnjsF0

Spoiler alert, it has a happy ending. Triumph torque rules...

If it holds together through Mosport hopefully I will have something 
left for the Kastner Cup in July!!!

On 2022-05-16 19:55, John H. Hasty via Fot wrote:
> Henry is too modest to mention he won ALL of his group races with
> stiff compition from a 914… best racing of the event in my opinion.
> Me, broken lifter, 2 push rods bent, cam degree moved, FedX, new
> parts, John and Billy up to 1:00 Friday and Sat, and after their great
> efforts to get the TR3 running like new the overdrive quit leaving me
> out of revs at the finish line on front straight….BUT all that and it
> was a great event giving most of us plenty of track time on wet and
> dry tracks.. To top it all off, I, for the first time, did a full hour
> enduro.  Cheers!


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