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2018 was my first time there, too. <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Just watch out for that sneaky lil </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">bastard turn 10. Got me once, but I might be </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">wiser now. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The “year of the neck brace”…</span><div>The still is from race video just after I introduced myself to the outer berm wall exiting turn 10. (Credit, Eddie Levac)</div><div><div><br></div><img src="cid:F9D60C58-BF7B-4AC1-9273-74968196CA76" class="ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-F9D60C58-BF7B-4AC1-9273-74968196CA76 rte-inline-saved-image" data-guid="F9D60C58-BF7B-4AC1-9273-74968196CA76" contenteditable="false" alt="Inline image" style="width: 100%;"><div><br></div><span id="yahoo-rte-cursor-span"></span>I went back again in 2022. Much better results! Same great fun.<br><br>So, maybe I’m not the guy you should listen to, but everything Henry said is true and verified!</div><div><br><div class="yahoo-signature">Fantastic track with a great atmosphere for the vintage race weekend (even if your car thinks otherwise).</div><div class="yahoo-signature"><br></div><div class="yahoo-signature">Rick McCurdy</div><div class="yahoo-signature"><br></div><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(132, 115, 255); padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">On Sunday, June 23, 2024, 12:36 PM, marty sukey via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv8878735836"><style type="text/css">#yiv8878735836 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}</style><div dir="ltr">
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My first time at Mosport was in 2018. Glad to be back again for a second time. I had a rocker pedestal stud break Friday, got that fixed and then lost my clutch Saturday morning. I only got a few sessions in but was starting to feel the track and took 5 seconds
off my 2018 best time. Had a blast. Like Henry said. It is going on my schedule now.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv8878735836divRplyFwdMsg"><b>From:</b> Fot <fot-bounces@autox.team.net> on behalf of yellow04 via Fot <fot@autox.team.net><br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 23, 2024 9:19 AM<br clear="none">
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<b>Subject:</b> [Fot] Triumphs at the VARAC Vintage Grand Prix - Mosport
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</span><div class="yiv8878735836PlainText">Triumphs invaded the Great White North earlier this month, with many in
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attendance at the VARAC Vintage Grand Prix at Mosport, otherwise known <br clear="none">
as Canadian Tire Motorsports Park. In my opinion, VARAC has turned this <br clear="none">
race into the premier North American Vintage Racing event of the season. <br clear="none">
They have built this event into the most enjoyable, low key festival <br clear="none">
event imaginable.<br clear="none">
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Can you name another event that puts on a dinner and live music every <br clear="none">
night, including the load-in on Wednesday? Yes, that's 4 nights of food <br clear="none">
and entertainment, which includes free beer every night! Canadian <br clear="none">
hospitality can't be beat, want to load in on Wednesday and not run the <br clear="none">
test day, no problem. Want to stay over Sunday night and get a fresh <br clear="none">
start at your drive home Monday morning? No problem. Mosport is a bucket <br clear="none">
list track that is worth the tow from just about anywhere, and you are <br clear="none">
treated to 8 sessions over 3 days.<br clear="none">
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Much to the chagrin of the VARAC's race director and MG pilot Dave Good, <br clear="none">
a Triumph won the annual MG/TR Challenge, again. We have a bit of a <br clear="none">
streak going here. I didn't get a qualifying time because of a minor <br clear="none">
suspension snafu, so I started from a grid position of 27th. <br clear="none">
Unfortunately, my good friend and on-track nemesis Nick Pratt broke in <br clear="none">
Practice, so I didn't have the blue Midget to play with. When the green <br clear="none">
flag flew I saw a hole and it felt like I got by half the field before <br clear="none">
turn 1, then on lap 2 I motored by the leaders on the back straight to <br clear="none">
take the lead and run uncontested. Mike Moore took second spot on the <br clear="none">
podium with a great run in his TR4.<br clear="none">
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In the Porsche vs. the rest of the world "All Comers" race, I did my <br clear="none">
part keeping the podium Porsche-free by running third overall. VARAC <br clear="none">
runs what is best described as bracket racing, you pick the lap time you <br clear="none">
are comfortable with and that is where you are scored. I just happen to <br clear="none">
have a car that runs towards the top of the Over-1:40 bracket, and I <br clear="none">
took the top podium spot for VH3. Yup, a good weekend for the yellow <br clear="none">
TR250.<br clear="none">
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Mike Deweerd ran the ex-Peter Bulkowski TR8, and with every session more <br clear="none">
and more seconds fell off the lap times. Once Mike gets a handle on this <br clear="none">
beast, watch out! He was two-timing it, with his faithful Green Bean TR4 <br clear="none">
running with Vintage Historic grid and the TR8 joining the Classic grid. <br clear="none">
Peter came to offer support and encouragement, and it is always a good <br clear="none">
time when Peter is around!<br clear="none">
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This was Jason Sukey's first outing at the storied Grand Prix track, and <br clear="none">
he confidently shaved seconds off every session as well, looking awesome <br clear="none">
in his GT6 in the Sunday morning race. Dad Marty's Spitfire didn't fare <br clear="none">
quite as well, but he was all smiles as usual all weekend.<br clear="none">
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Brian Schirano joined the fun and ran well with his GT6, as did Stewart <br clear="none">
Wigg rounding out the GT6 contingent. Tim Slater towed his Spitfire up <br clear="none">
from rain ravaged South Florida with his dingy strapped on the second <br clear="none">
story of his trailer, (not a joke) and ran as strong as a mortal <br clear="none">
Spitfire can go.<br clear="none">
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Mark Wheatley didn't have the weekend he had hoped for with his TR4, but <br clear="none">
in the feature race on Sunday afternoon we are pretty confident the <br clear="none">
issue has been identified. The sole sidescreen car at the event was John <br clear="none">
Styduhar with his TR3B, John ran strong all weekend never missing a <br clear="none">
beat.<br clear="none">
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Mike Moore convinced himself he had enough grip on old tires to not put <br clear="none">
his new ones on, but after spinning in the very high speed turn 8 he <br clear="none">
realized that was not the way to go! No harm, no foul, and hopefully <br clear="none">
lesson learned! Mike ran well when all wheels were pointing the right <br clear="none">
way, he also had a great weekend.<br clear="none">
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It seems every year we get more Americans to venture north across the <br clear="none">
border to race with us, and every one of them that races this event <br clear="none">
assures me they have put the VARAC Vintage Grand Prix on their permanent <br clear="none">
race schedule! To me, the Mosport experience is what I gauge all other <br clear="none">
tracks by, and to have VARAC put on such an amazing event at a world <br clear="none">
class track, it just doesn't get any better than this!<br clear="none">
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Cheers<br clear="none">
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Henry Frye<br clear="none">
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