[Fot] Kastner Cup 2025 - Epilogue

Wed Sep 3 10:29:06 MDT 2025

Henry and team, this was an absolutely amazing event for me behind the
camera and I caught angles that spectators can't access. Thank you so much
for the blood, sweat, tears, and passion that shown through in every
aspect. Incredible teams, outstanding racing, and a well organized event. I
took well over 12,000 shots with my trusty old Nikon and 15+ videos of
paddock walks, grid walks, interviews, and as much as I could capture with
my phone. Erich also took another 8000+ with my backup Nikon.

If you are on Facebook, you can see the vids and shots I took with my phone
to show everyone as quickly as possible, but my real work now begins,
editing. I will have coverage in print as well in The Vintage Triumph
Magazine, VTR's club magazine.(
https://www.vintagetriumphregister.org/secure/signup)

For the FOT, I shot every corner aside from West Bend at multiple angles of
every Triumph. I plan to feature each racer in finishing order on my North
American Triumphs FB page. I even got the #65 TR4A on track Friday and
Saturday before #7 and #8 cam lobes decided to exit stage right (Sat AM)
through a new custom breather hole out the side of the 4000+ hour Baja TR3
engine (impressive) that was transplanted to the bright green TR4A, so we
got just about everyone in the false grid group shot, which I will start on
first after work tonight. Then, a bigger feature for our 2025 KCup
Champion, David Gott, so on and so forth.

If any of you see your photos on Facebook (low resolution) and want them in
high resolution for posters and print, please reach out to me, either by
email, text, a call, or FB messenger. My contact info is below in my
signature. Give me a little bit of time and I will get it done.

I won't charge any FOT members for photos, although I never turn down a
donation. I owe you all a lot of thanks for making it possible for this
Iowa boy to live his dreams of traveling to bucket list tracks that I've
wanted to go to since I was a little kid. What a special thing to walk the
paddock and see smiling friends' faces to make the dream a reality!

Excellent show, my Friends of Triumph! The Triumph part is secondary to the
Friends part of the name, tenfold.

Stay tuned, more to come! Here is one of my favorite shots so far, from my
phone before looking at any camera memory cards.

Thank you, thank you!

*Shawn Frank*

*The Vintage Triumph Magazine - EditorNorth American Triumphs (FKA Spitfire
& GT6 Magazine) - OwnerContinued Legacy Photo - OwnerIowa British Car
ClubFriends of Triumph - Media515-339-4228'71 Triumph Spitfire MKIV
"Gertrude"*

On Tue, Sep 2, 2025, 12:05 PM yellow04 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:

> We were invited, we showed up in force, and we put on a great show for
> both the FOT and the world. It looks like the Lime Rock marketing
> machine will be do us proud, I look forward to see what becomes of all
> the work still going on behind the scenes.
>
> Speaking of marketing, hats off to Shawn Frank for all his work for us,
> what a valuable member of our team. Thanks Shawn!
>
> I want to thank everyone who came and supported the event. Racers, crew,
> and friends. Putting on a Kastner Cup takes teamwork, and while I might
> have been the seen as the guy pulling the strings, every one of you who
> was there, even in spirit only, were important to cause. You folks make
> it all work, as we know a club without active members isn't worth all
> that much.
>
> For me, one of the coolest parts of any KCup weekend is getting to meet
> and spend some time with our FOT brethren. This event gave us ample
> opportunity to really get to know some of our racing friends, and I hope
> everybody took full advantage.
>
> We had been planning on doing the awards ceremony at Triumph Central,
> under the tent by the Alexander paddock. We had 50 minutes from parking
> our cars after the race to start the presentation. I was informed the
> track wanted to do the presentation down in the A paddock at the
> winner's circle with about a half hour to go, and Skip Barber would be
> attending! So our team springs into action, circulates the word around
> the paddock (sorry to the folks who didn't get word in time), our stuff
> gets loaded into cars and shuttled down. I gather my thoughts, get
> cleaned up and ready for the presentation, find the winners circle with
> maybe 10 minutes to go. I get introduced to Skip, we are figuring out
> how this is all going to work, then I hear someone say David Hobbs is
> here. I turn to see David getting out of his golf cart, he walks over,
> we are introduced and he asks me "what do you want me to do?" I had
> known he was going to be there for maybe 30 seconds at that point! The
> notes I had jotted down for how the ceremony was to flow at this point
> are pretty meaningless, and it was time to wing it. Hopefully it didn't
> come off as haphazard as it seemed in my head! But heck, I got to
> introduce David Hobbs, that will probably be the highlight of my racing
> career!
>
> To recap the awards recipients:
>
> Kastner Cup - Dave Gott, TR4
>
> Amici Award - Jason Ostrowsky
> Performance Award - TR2-3 - Joe Boruch
> Performance Award - TR4 - Tony Drews
> Performance Award - TR250-6 - Henry Frye
> Performance Award - TR7-8 - Tim Cook
> Performance Award - GT6 - Alex Amys
> Performance Award - Spitfire - David Gussack (KCup race winner)
> Performance Award - Triumph Powered Special - Vic Schuster
> Sponsor Award - Western Pennsylvania Triumphs Association
> Sponsor Award - GoodParts
> Sponsor Award - Alexander Racing Equipment
> Honored Guest - David Hobbs
>
> One of the event sponsors is Autodromo, and they present a fine watch to
> a participant from each group that embodies the spirit of the event. I
> was told the guy who does the presentation for Autodromo was on track at
> the moment, so I was asked to do the deed. While I don't think I had
> their spiel down all that well, I was proud to present the watch to my
> new racing buddy, Alex Amys!
>
> I had to be reminded to announce the location of the next Kastner Cup,
> silly me as I am going to do this all again for next year. We are going
> to Mosport, currently known as the Canadian Tire Motorsports Park, in
> Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada. The home of the very first Kastner Cup. So
> mark your calendars for Father's Day weekend, 2026, ensure your passport
> is up to date, and stay tuned for more details as they become available!
>
> Also, it was hard not to notice I was hobbling around wearing a back
> brace all weekend. At the track for the test day on Tuesday I did
> something my back didn't like and for a while there I was thinking I
> could not race. It took a village to keep me in the game, thanks to
> everyone who helped me physically so I would make it out and be part of
> the show. My time on-track was awesome, thanks to Bob Lang and Alex Amys
> for some great dicing and encouragement to finally turn some laps down
> in the 1:04's. I beat my best lap from last year by .185 seconds!
>
> Again, thanks to everyone who participated. Job well done, looking
> forward to Mosport next year!
>
> Henry Frye
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