[Fot] Jeff 500

yellow04 yellow04 at tr4racer.com
Tue May 17 05:48:52 MDT 2022


I typically don't post videos, so yeah, I screwed up the settings! 
Should work now.

On 2022-05-17 07:40, Scott Janzen wrote:
> Couldn’t open the YouTube- private video?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On May 16, 2022, at 10:42 PM, yellow04 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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