[Fot] The Glory Continues - Triumphs at the Jefferson 500

[DAVE HOGYE]

Excellent report, Henry.
Congratulations to the Triumph competitors for such a strong dominating performance.
Especially Mike and John.  A big congratulations! 
Dave H.

> On 05/22/2023 6:57 AM PDT yellow04 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> Jefferson 500, Summit Point, West Virginia, site of the 2015 Kcup, we 
> again showed how Triumphs continue to get the job done.
> 
> The TR3's run in the Donahue Cup group, the Spitfires run the Lola Cup 
> group, while Marlboro Cup group runs the TR4, TR6, TR7 and GT6. We saw 
> domination in all groups! All groups ran a practice/qualifying session 
> Friday morning, then the pace car comes out for the first race of the 
> weekend. Saturday morning is another race session followed by a feature 
> race Saturday afternoon. Sunday is an enduro in the morning then an 
> all-comers race in the afternoon.
> 
> In the Donahue Cup, we saw John Styduhar emerge as the class of the 
> field, taking home the first overall wins of his racing career. Second 
> place in the Cup race belongs to Vic Schuster in the Ambro, then John 
> Hasty had his hands FULL with a Renault Spec Racer during the feature 
> race but did what he needed to do to complete the podium sweep for 
> Triumph. Styduhar won the feature and the Saturday morning race as well! 
> Well done John, well deserved and that was a hoot to watch. Everybody 
> was happy to see that Mark Rosenberg got the Peerless back together and 
> is back on track with this uber-rare Triumph powered racer.
> 
> The Lola Cup was dominated by Dave Gussack driving a Vintage Racing 
> Services Spitfire, he had the field by two seconds a lap. Unfortunately, 
> he didn't finish the feature, but Richard Schnabel driving the recently 
> acquired Rob Stewart Spitfire took second overall. Rob's car is 
> certainly in great hands.
> 
> The Marlboro Cup saw some great racing all weekend. Mike Moore showed 
> his stuff to drive for the overall win in the Saturday morning race, 
> holding off some great competition. However, buy the time the feature 
> race rolled around, a Sports Racer who was put in the group because he 
> didn't fit anywhere else worked his way up to start on the front row and 
> had the field by a second and a half a lap, so he just ran away with the 
> overall win. But we took P2, P3, P4 and P5 out of a field of 36 
> starters! Mike Moore ran second in his TR4, Mark Wheatley took third in 
> his TR4, Scott Janzen took 4th with his GT6 and Dave Gott took 5th in 
> his TR4. Bill Emery came out with Dad's TR7 to give the Wedge crowd a 
> car to cheer for, and Mike Kurtz ran well all weekend until almost 
> finishing the feature but was sidelined with a mechanical. Jay DePol 
> looked great out there in his GT6, Dale Oesterle left the Spitfire at 
> home and ran a cool Jensen Healey this weekend.
> 
> Me? Kas would not be proud, I was beaten by equipment and never turned a 
> timed lap. Must be getting close to time to turn the Trophy back in...
> 
> ~~~
> Henry Frye - if I can't run at least I can write the race report
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