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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>This past weekend was good racing for me and my TR6 at my racing club, Southwest Motorsport , <a href="http://www.swms.org">www.swms.org</a>,. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My ran super strong with no mechanical issues. I came in 4<sup>th</sup> place in the trophy race on Saturday and 2<sup>nd</sup> place on<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sunday beating the Porsche 911s and a quick Datsun 510. A funny thing happened during the qualifying race on Saturday. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Corner 6 is a 180 degree right hander and a corner worker was waving debris flag there and there was another debris flag at corner 12 which is a 3<sup>rd</sup> gear<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Left hand sweeper which is taken flat out (if you have the guts). As I’m in traffic doing more laps I’m looking for car parts or a tool laying <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the track at these two corners but I never did see anything. I did see what looked like a dead prairie dog or something just before corner six<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But I found out later that I was wrong. It turned out that two rattle snakes decided to try to make it across the track during the qualifying race but neither one made it. The one in corner 12 was small 2 or 3 feet long but the one just before corner 6 was larger, almost 6 feet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now that is a real road hazard.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Walt Hollowell<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Albuquerque, New Mexico<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>