So car running at end of event, no contact, family w you, good times... damn the only thing was being in gp 8 vs 3 . And u got the win and smiles. And the Anthem. <div><br></div><div>You win overall</div><div><br></div><div>Mordy<br><br><div id="__aol_mail_signature__"><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;color:#949494;font-size:11px;">Sent from AOL Mobile Mail<br>Get the new AOL app: <a style="font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;font-size:11px;" href="http://mail.mobile.aol.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">mail.mobile.aol.com</a></div></div>
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On Wednesday, November 11, 2020, Chuck Gee via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
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<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 9px;padding:0 0 0 9px;"><div id="yiv1110592268"><div>Sounds like you had a good time Walt. Sorry I missed out on that trumpet playing! Looking forward to the videos.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div dir="ltr">Chuck</div><div class="yiv1110592268yqt4968395849" id="yiv1110592268yqt96656"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 10, 2020, at 6:38 AM, walt@hot-tr6.com wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="yiv1110592268yqt4968395849" id="yiv1110592268yqt17892"><style>#yiv1110592268 #yiv1110592268 --
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#yiv1110592268 </style><div><div class="yiv1110592268WordSection1"><p class="yiv1110592268MsoNormal">Just got back from a successful race weekend at Circuit of the Americas. I raced my 1970 TR6 with no mechanical issues whatsoever. The weather was a perfect upper 70s to mid 80s all weekend. SVRA placed me in Group 8 GT while I would have preferred to be in Group 3 where other British car racers I have competed with were. My wife was with me as my umbrella girl and two of my grown children were there to pit crew for me. I found that the best starting tire pressures on my Hoosier TDs were 26 front and 24 rear. I set my 123 ignition at 32 degrees maximum advance while I normally set it at 36 where I live at 5,000 above sea level. I ran all three practice sessions on Thursday the 6<sup>th</sup> to learn the track. Friday I ran with 41 cars in my group for the two practice races. Within my Group 8 GT class there were only a few cars which some broke and one crashed out so by the Saturday feature race it was just me so I won my class by default. Same thing on Sunday. I kept my revs down to 6K so I would survive the weekend. My best lap time was 2.527 which is respectable for me. The long straight is impressive and you really get going a fast top speed. I kept driving deeper into the braking zone but I was probably on the conservative side. On Sunday I performed a rendition the National Anthem on my trumpet that Chris Botti gave me over the public address system for the crowd and it was a big hit. Sunday afternoon I ran the one hour long Endurance race solo with one pit stop to check tires, fluids and add fuel. My two children did a great job of the pit stop. 36 cars of all Groups and classes ran the Endurance race which made things interesting while I was watching my mirrors for superfast cars to blast past me such as me such as a Ford GT, Lolas, Vipers and Cobras. I had planned on running modest lap times during the Enduro but the red mist hit me and I had an awesome dice the last four laps with a very fast Porsche 356 driven by a father/daughter team. We were side by side through the esses and I could pull a little ahead on the main straight away but on the sweepers we were side by side waiting for the other driver to miss a shift or get a little bit loose but neither one of us slipped up. Going into the last corner (#20) of the last lap we were still side by side with me on the inside. We both drifted through the 90 degree left hander with less then 4 inches between our cars and the Porsche went pretty wide over the second white line. We crossed the finish so dead even I honestly don’t know which of us broke the electronic beam first but neither one of us cared. I have mixed feelings about SVRA. During the feature race on Saturday a BMW 2002 passed me dragging it’s entire exhaust system which was kicking up sparks and debris. I kept pointing it out to the corner marshals for the last two laps but he was never flagged. Also, $550 for the practice day and another $550 for the Endurance seem expensive but I guess that’s the price in the big leagues. The COTA track is awesome and I’m I can say I have raced there. Overall I had a great weekend.</p><p class="yiv1110592268MsoNormal">I have lots of pictures and GoPro videos to download and edit over the next few days. That will be fun.</p><p class="yiv1110592268MsoNormal">Walter Hollowell</p><p class="yiv1110592268MsoNormal">Albuquerque, New Mexico</p></div><div id="yiv1110592268DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br clear="none">
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