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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Congratulations Tony second! Year after
year,race after race always finds a way to finish high not break and make it
look easy. Uncle Jack would be proud.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bill Dewar</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=rjl@gt-classics.com href="mailto:rjl@gt-classics.com">R. John Lye</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=fot@autox.team.net
href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">triumph friends</A> ; <A
title=jason@multivintage.com href="mailto:jason@multivintage.com">Jason
Ostrowski</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 26, 2015 2:46
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Fot] Wrap-Up News from
Blackhawk Farms</DIV>
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<P>Congratulations Tony, another great drive.</P>
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<P>John<BR><BR>On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:15:09 -0500, Jason Ostrowski <<A
href="mailto:jason@multivintage.com">jason@multivintage.com</A>> wrote:</P>
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<DIV>Well, the blunt fact is that The Loooong race took a toll on all our
Triumphs.</DIV>
<DIV>Leaving us all jealous was of the only one left standing at the
end.</DIV>
<DIV>King of the weekend was Tony Drews...</DIV>
<DIV>With the car that wears a bulletproof vest to the track every damn
weekend.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Going into the start of the endurance test it seemed a long awaited
beating was in store for him.</DIV>
<DIV>Of the 35 or so cars set to perform,</DIV>
<DIV>I was happy to qualify as top Triumph. </DIV>
<DIV>8th spot.</DIV>
<DIV>Starting next to me on driver's right was my Barracuda
Brother in 7th. (we qualified both with our best-ever times at Blackhawk
with a mere fraction of .3 seconds between us)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Behind, with a nice cushion in between (for us anyway) was Sean
Alexander starting 12th.</DIV>
<DIV>And the solid bright-red brick of Mr. Drews back in 14th: with a good
view of his eventual, falling off the table pick-offs.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>It would soon appear that the astounding speed and hope and the
glory of a really fast GT6+ is nothing at the finish with bird leg
fragility.</DIV>
<DIV>I got a great start and had the Barracuda in tow.</DIV>
<DIV>By the end of lap one, I had moved up to flirt with the top
5.</DIV>
<DIV>Brian passed me and I was cool to pester him from behind.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>That's like watching screaming children being tossed between
the coachwork panels of a Bus as the driver floors it
through a parking lot autocross track.</DIV>
<DIV>Our David and Goliath battle lasted all too briefly as my differential
exploded inside its case and I was out..</DIV>
<DIV>Shortly after, the Cuda was also out with a broken water pump and a
shredded belt.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Somewhere in the meantime, Scott Barr managed to scrape the side of his
car along the asphalt in a, rather lucky to not completely roll over,
shearing of the axle. He found out with early Halloween horror
that the car cannot go through the carousel with only 3 wheels. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The first 40 minute segment ended and it seemed that Sean may have his
chance to take the pot.</DIV>
<DIV>Due to typical attrition, by this time the field was less than half of
the original starters.</DIV>
<DIV>Sean, Tony, and still hanging in there...Glade Snodgrass; were the
Triumphs that remained for the race to the Checkered.</DIV>
<DIV>In front for most of the race was Alexander.</DIV>
<DIV>But not at the end.</DIV>
<DIV>A broken transmission... gear chipped away his hope of beating the big
guy.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Tony was the only Triumph left at the flag fall.</DIV>
<DIV>Again he walks his car back to Moline as the Top Dog of the
season for our group of Midwest FOT Heroes.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Jason Ostrowski</DIV>
<DIV>Friendly Ghost Racing</DIV>
<DIV>1969 Triumph GT6+ Racecars</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>
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<P><BR>--<BR>Thanks,<BR>John<BR><BR><BR>rjl@gt-classics.com</P>
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