[Fot] 2025 Kastner Cup at Lime Rock!

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FOT-ers, 
I can attest to the information that Henry just sent. The Thursday afternoon (charity) drive is like a “Mini-Me” New England version of what Road America does. 
The drive takes you through Lakeville and Salisbury where folks line the roads to cheer and wave. In Salisbury, the cars wends through an assisted living facility where the course bends back on itself and threads over country roads almost back to the track, where a left turn near the entrance leads to Falls Village, just a few miles down the road where the cars are parked, beer and hotdogs can be consumed live music provides a great background to peruse the race cars and street cars that participated. Around dusk, cars begin to leave. Unlicensed race cars without headlights (like mine) are escorted safely back to the track by the local Gendarmes. It really brings out some special cars, enthusiastic people, and it’s for a good cause, usually the local food bank. (Gas tank full before you go!)
On Friday night, the track hosts a large dinner for the drivers and one guest under a huge tent on the hill overlooking the track. Wine and beer flow freely, and the food can be pretty good, too. After dinner, there is usually a featured guest who after a short interview, takes questions from the audience. Everyone stumbles off to bed happy.
This has always been one of my favorite weekends. The racing, the Sunday in the Park car show, the festival atmosphere where fans walk freely through the paddock- all great fun. 
I am really looking forward to next years Kastner Cup. And I’m determined to not be LAST this time! I hope to see some of you that I became acquainted with in Portland and Sonoma at the K Cups there. (It’s your turn to do the long haul 😉). 
Heed Henry’s words about lodging if you don’t stay in your trailer.
See you in September at Lime Rock,
Rick McCurdyRed TR3 #132


On Monday, November 11, 2024, 9:48 AM, yellow04 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:

Friends,

Thanks to our own media maven Shawn Frank, we have been nudged to get 
going with our first press release and the event poster! Those of us who 
belong to the Vintage Triumph Register get the magazine, The Vintage 
Triumph, and know that Shawn is the editor. Be sure to look for coverage 
in every issue from the next one due in a few weeks all the way up to 
the event next fall! Thank you Shawn for the great support!!!

Details for the event are starting to come together. I will share the 
pertinent facts as they become available.

Event Poster: I have attached the event poster, thanks to Curt Johnston 
for helping us with that!

Schedule: Test day is the Tuesday immediately preceding the event. The 
track is happy to have racers park their race rigs at the track in the 
assigned spot for the event on Tuesday, but you can't stay at the track 
until Thursday. On Thursday, the track hosts a drive through the 
Berkshire Mountains open to race cars and street cars alike, a real 
treat for many. The drive ends in Falls Village, a quaint town a couple 
miles from the track for an old-fashioned street fair. On Friday we 
practice in the morning, qualify in the afternoon. Then two races on 
Saturday, and on Monday morning we have another race before the main 
event. We run the Kastner Cup race right after lunch with the ceremony 
to present the Kastner Cup after the race.

Eligibility: The race is open to all Triumph powered race cars. The 
caveat is, as always, tire rules. Cars must run on Vintage tires, 
meaning no slicks. I urge any potential participant to contact me with 
details of your car and we will do everything possible to get you in the 
race.

Triumphs get their own run group: There could be some exceptions to this 
one, if we get too many Triumphs registering for the event we may be 
forced to bump the uber-fast cars to fast group, or a car prepped well 
beyond Vintage rules may run with a more appropriate group. Same may 
apply to some of the less-fast cars, we may have to bump them to a 
not-so-fast group. But we will all race together on Monday afternoon for 
the Cup.

Lodging: This will be a challenge. We urge everyone who is planning on 
attending and not camping at the track to secure bedspace as soon as 
possible. The closest town with a variety of known hotel chains is Great 
Barrington, Massachusetts, about 30 minutes from the track. It is not 
practical to identify a host hotel for this one, the hotels are not 
large and get filled up early. An option some racers use is to double 
(or triple) up and secure lodging from AirB&B or VRBO. There are houses 
available in the area that work well for this. Also, there is 
information on Lime Rock's website with some closer options, but none of 
them are large and the scope of this annual event usually has them 
filled by the same racers year to year!

Sponsorship: As always, there will be expenses that the FOT needs to 
cover. We are soliciting donations for sponsorship as we have done in 
the past. Please contact me, Henry Frye, with any questions or with any 
interest in sponsorship. We will continue to use the gofundme page for 
those looking for a convenient way to contribute.

Sunday: Lime Rock Park operates under a moratorium that prohibits 
running race engines on Sundays. The track pivots on Sunday to host a 
large concours and car show. Race cars are invited to participate, but 
each one gets towed down to the front straight on the track as we can't 
run them! We are in process of securing prime car show space for our 
friends with their street cars. Our plans for Sunday are still in 
process, but we envision some FOT gathering for dinner, libation and 
socializing. Again, stay tuned for more details as they develop.

Feel free to reach out with any questions, I will do my best to get back 
to you quickly!

We look forward to seeing you at the Lime Rock Historic Festival next 
fall!

Henry Frye
2025 Kastner Cup - FOT Chair
fot at kastnercup.com
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