[Fot] VIR Wild Hare 2024

[Dean Tetterton]

Damn Henry, If I had known I would have put on my Texaco hat and gone up
and polished your visor.

Dean

On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 11:02 AM Henry Frye via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
wrote:

> Another fantastic Wild Hare, we had what could only be described as
> perfect weather. Cool mornings warming up to quite comfortable in the
> afternoon, and zero rain at the track from Friday through Sunday! The
> Triumph turnout was quite impressive, and having old friends show up to
> say hi is always a treat.
>
> I was looking forward to running with Bob but unfortunately that was not
> to be. Bob did a great job beating up on the competition at the pointy
> end of the field for me, so by the second feature race on Saturday
> afternoon I was gridded third behind Denny Wilson in his Lotus 7 and a
> very fast Elva Mark VI, and a fast Elva Courier and a Ginetta G4 behind
> me. As the top five cars were sitting on the grid, I had a Rodney
> Dangerfield moment. The four cars I could see were all being managed by
> race teams, with the flurry of activity of a bunch of guys fussing with
> the car and driver, and then there is me, all by myself, sitting in my
> lowly Triumph with nobody to even hold an umbrella. I got no respect...
>
> Both Saturday feature races I finished second overall, and on Sunday's
> race I was third overall, only .05 seconds out of second place to of all
> things, a Lotus 23R who started from the back.
>
> So, yeah, it was good weekend.
>
> And thanks to everyone with VDCA for another great event!
>
> Henry
>
> -----Original Message-----
>  From: Robert Lang
> Subject: [Fot] VIR Wild Hare 2024
>
> Hi,
>
> I had a super fun weekend at VIR for the Wild Hare. I developed a
> coolant leak that we couldn't track down at the track. I'd go about 5
> laps at full chat and then the cooling system would push enough coolant
> to get an air bubble and then I'd see the temp gauge indicating a
> problem and would pull in. Even so, I had a great time. The track is
> awesome and we got to hang around with FOT friends old and new. But it
> was really kool hanging around with the usual suspects as well as Dean
> Tetterton, John Harkness and some new faces like Mark Cook. It'll be fun
> to see some more TR6's on track in the coming years.
>
> I manged to get down to a 2:20.8xx which was my target time. Henry Frye
> got into the 2:18's during the morning race on SAT. Speaking of which,
> had I not seen my temp problems, I probably would have had a a podium
> finish with the Group 3 race. I was in 2nd overall for the first 4 laps,
> I think. Too bad that video didn't come out. That said, even running a
> distant second, I was still racing on the same track as Denny Wilson.
>
> At any rate, I posted a video from the Friday afternoon practice /
> qualifier:
>
> VIR Hot Laps
>
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mD2IbU0mcE>
>
> Check it out.
>
> C ya,
> Bob Lang
>
>
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