[Fot] 2025 Kastner Cup

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-------- Original message --------From: Scott Janzen via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> Date: 4/21/24  10:02 AM  (GMT-08:00) To:  Cc: 'Friends of Triumph' Triumph <fot at autox.team.net> Subject: Re: [Fot] 2025 Kastner Cup Wow, that’s exciting news!  For those of you who have never driven it, Lime Rock is a hoot.  It’s short - 1.53 miles - but requires near constant attention.  Great altitude changes - the crest of the back hill is good for a little wheelspin, and a wild sideways ride if you are still trying to turn at the crest - and some good turns.  It’s not easy to master.  There’s always a better lap (at least for me).  For those who will say - “festival event, not a lot of track time” I will say that a 20 minute session is routinely 15 and can be up to 18 laps - a really good time for me is 1:06, though I know Henry and Bob are faster. Track record, I think, is an IMSA GTP car at 43.1 seconds.  Anyway, you get  lot of laps, usually, so it doesn’t feel short.Lime Rock is full of automotive eye candy, unlike any other east coast event, for sure.  I’ve been on track with a Maserati birdcage, raced wheel to wheel/traded places lap after lap with a 260 Cobra, sometimes there’s a preservation class - it’s amazing to see a driver in a prewar car going down the front straight at real speed, with one hand outside the car working the fuel pump.  Great place to spectate and lots of beautiful cars to look at that are just on display.Looking forward to it!  Even my wife, who generally only comes to one event a year, says she will come for this one.Side note - lodging is limited.  Make your lodging plans before you even register to race, if you can.Scott JanzenGT6On Apr 21, 2024, at 7:46 AM, yellow04 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:I am pleased to announce the 2025 Kastner Cup will be run at the Lime Rock Historic Festival, at Lime Rock Park, in the scenic northwest hills of Connecticut. The Historic Festival is one of the premier East Coast vintage racing events, and takes place over the Labor Day weekend. Skip Barber asked us "When are you guys going to bring your Kastner Cup to the Historics?", the cards just fell into place.The event is put on by the track, and is co-sanctioned by Vintage Racer Group (VRG) and VSCCA. Track owner Skip Barber calls the shots, and his right-hand man through the whole process is the VRG event chair Paul King. Paul is also a FOT member, those of you from the east should remember his yellow GT6 running events over the past 20 years or so. I have been working closely with Paul on VRG's Driver Development program for several years now, and we realized this aligning of the stars was too perfect to pass up. Paul and I will co-chair the event with Paul managing the track side of the house, and I will manage the FOT side, with help from Curt Johnston and the Alexanders, of course.We hope everyone will mark their calendars now and plan on being with us at Lime Rock Park in 2025!Henry Frye2025 Kastner Cup Co-chair_______________________________________________fot at autox.team.nethttp://www.fot-racing.comDonate: http://www.team.net/donate.htmlArchive: http://autox.team.net/archive http://www.team.net/pipermail/fotUnsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/fot/sjanzen@me.com
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