[Fot] Racing Anomaly

[ralph hansen]

 I can relate to something similar. Running a National at MO in 99 in my RX7. During the race coming on the straight after the keyhole quite a way back from the nearest competitor had a small rock find its way past my ls mirror, window net and small eye opening in my helmet. It found my left eyeglass lens and shattered it. Ended up running about 7 laps fighting with a guy over 3rd place right up to the flag. he got it. Ended up driving 10 hours home mostly in the night thru the usual road construction during the road work season. Not fun. Lesson learned, shield down inside a tin top.
Cheers

    On Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 08:50:47 AM CDT, JS Performance Motoring, LLC via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:  
 
 Mike,        That's gotta be $20 worth of race rubber right there!!
Not as exciting, but I had a bit of rubber hit me in the eye shield on the back stretch this weekend.  It was a good reminder why it's important to ALWAYS put the shield down, even in a tin top!!!

Jason SukeyJS Performance Motoring, LLC
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 10:10 PM finishing Touch via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:

The lighter side of racing:

Sunday during the Pittsburgh Historic medium bore sprint race, I was 
racing down the back stretch in my TR6 when I saw a car in front of me 
kick up a piece of rubber (marble) and it was coming my way. My natural 
reaction was to blink and I heard it hit my car.  I thought nothing more 
of it until I went to look at my dash mounted rear view mirror which was 
now turned sideways.  On the next lap at the end of the front straight 
away, I navigated the hard left hand turn and pushed the throttle which  
wouldn't fully open.  Glancing down, I saw this piece of rubber on the 
floor wedged under the throttle pedal. Fortunately after breaking and 
taking the next a hard left, it became dislodged and I was able to 
finish the race with normal controls. What are the odds of that?

It's the biggest 'marble' I ever captured and is now just another 
keepsake for my racing display case.

Mike Kurtz
Yellow TR6 #51
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