<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm thinking it's time for the left coast. Maybe Thunderhill? It's a hell of a track, though the surrounding facilities suck. Portland would be great, the Columbia River Classic is the weekend before this SVRA race (Memorial day weekend), and it's a high-track time event. Most folks are sick of racing by the time the Monday races roll around. it also encompasses the All British Field Meet which a lot of Triumph folks attend as well. <div><br></div><div>I know I could get SOVREN to roll out the red carpet for FOT since I helped to give this race a boost a few years ago. The Saturday at-track party is legenday, an opportunity to get out your vintage duds, and I can commit to a pretty cool FOT party at Casa Babcock. <br><div><div><br></div><div>On Sep 9, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Henry Frye wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>We came, we raced, we marked our territory with our racecars. Some more<br>than others.<br><br>We hung out with TS 1 LO, parked under thI'm thinking it's time for the left coast. e tent with the beer. What were<br>they thinking. Anything could have happened. Nothing happened... I<br>think.<br><br>We shared some special moments remembering uncle jack.<br><br>Many of us were able to put faces with familiar names. Before I just<br>knew the names. Now I have faces in my brain so I will forget all your<br>names. Sorry, that's just how it works.<br><br>My car rose to the occasion. First, somehow it became the poster child<br>for the event, landing on the front page of the local daily newspaper on<br>Saturday. <br><br>Then it drove into the paddock hemorrhaging oil from every orifice after<br>the All Triumph Race, but I achieved a few lofty personal goals in the<br>process. <br><br>Then on the start of the Group 3 race my car pulled me down the inside<br>line to pass a bunch of guys in turn one, then I passed the start/finish<br>line in third overall a couple times. Running way up there in a SVRA<br>feature race is something I never thought I would do. Then the track got<br>a little slick from rain and I backed off a bit, I will never be a brave<br>rain driver. Too much to lose, nothing to gain. Still finished well, no<br>complaints there.<br><br>There was less attrition than I expected over the course of the weekend,<br>at least until Sunday. It was nice to spend time with our friends<br>sitting on chairs with a beer in hand, not under cars requesting<br>wrenches and sockets. <br><br>Many big names in our sport were there, both past and present, and<br>getting face time with them was a real treat. <br><br>Congrats to Tony Garmey on winning the Kastner Cup. This was the third<br>time I have seen the TR250K on track, it was always fast. This weekend<br>it was amazing. During Kas' presentation of the cup, he said he has not<br>seen the car go as fast since he ran it at Sebring in '68. He then<br>issued a manufacturers recall notice, but I think Tony is going to take<br>his chances!<br><br>Congrats to Larry Young for the Bill Ames Award, well deserved. <br><br>The Western PA Triumph gang was there in force, as was a big contingent<br>of New England Triumph folks. Bob Lang brought Khartu, his TR6<br>autocrosser for the folks to enjoy. Dave Hutchinson drove his pristine<br>Italia. If I continue to try to mention all the special cars that came<br>out to support the event I would miss several, I don't want to do that.<br><br>Many thanks to Jack Woehrle and the rest of SVRA for treating us Triumph<br>folks better than we deserved. Jack was never too far from the Triumph<br>ghetto, and made sure we got what we needed.<br><br>So, it was a great weekend, sorry if you missed it... 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