[Fot] Racing Anomaly

[Finishing Touch]

A snake being flipping into your car is reason enough to engineer and install an ejector seat. Yikes!

Mike


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> On Jul 30, 2024, at 11:35 AM, Kenneth Knight via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> If only Russell had picked that up at Spa in the F1 race the car would have made weight and he would have kept his win!  Ken
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>> On 7/29/2024 7:00 PM, finishing Touch via Fot 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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