<div dir="auto"><div>Henry and team, this was an absolutely amazing event for me behind the camera and I caught angles that spectators can't access. Thank you so much for the blood, sweat, tears, and passion that shown through in every aspect. Incredible teams, outstanding racing, and a well organized event. I took well over 12,000 shots with my trusty old Nikon and 15+ videos of paddock walks, grid walks, interviews, and as much as I could capture with my phone. Erich also took another 8000+ with my backup Nikon. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you are on Facebook, you can see the vids and shots I took with my phone to show everyone as quickly as possible, but my real work now begins, editing. I will have coverage in print as well in The Vintage Triumph Magazine, VTR's club magazine.(<a href="https://www.vintagetriumphregister.org/secure/signup">https://www.vintagetriumphregister.org/secure/signup</a>)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For the FOT, I shot every corner aside from West Bend at multiple angles of every Triumph. I plan to feature each racer in finishing order on my North American Triumphs FB page. I even got the #65 TR4A on track Friday and Saturday before #7 and #8 cam lobes decided to exit stage right (Sat AM) through a new custom breather hole out the side of the 4000+ hour Baja TR3 engine (impressive) that was transplanted to the bright green TR4A, so we got just about everyone in the false grid group shot, which I will start on first after work tonight. Then, a bigger feature for our 2025 KCup Champion, David Gott, so on and so forth.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If any of you see your photos on Facebook (low resolution) and want them in high resolution for posters and print, please reach out to me, either by email, text, a call, or FB messenger. My contact info is below in my signature. Give me a little bit of time and I will get it done.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I won't charge any FOT members for photos, although I never turn down a donation. I owe you all a lot of thanks for making it possible for this Iowa boy to live his dreams of traveling to bucket list tracks that I've wanted to go to since I was a little kid. What a special thing to walk the paddock and see smiling friends' faces to make the dream a reality!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Excellent show, my Friends of Triumph! The Triumph part is secondary to the Friends part of the name, tenfold.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Stay tuned, more to come! Here is one of my favorite shots so far, from my phone before looking at any camera memory cards.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you, thank you!<br><img src="cid:ii_19910687869598528341" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><br><br></div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b>Shawn Frank</b></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><i><div><br></div><div>The Vintage Triumph Magazine - Editor</div><div>North American Triumphs (FKA Spitfire & GT6 Magazine) - Owner</div><div>Continued Legacy Photo - Owner</div><div>Iowa British Car Club</div><div>Friends of Triumph - Media</div><div><br></div><div>515-339-4228</div><div><br></div><div>'71 Triumph Spitfire MKIV "Gertrude"</div></i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 2, 2025, 12:05 PM yellow04 via Fot <<a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">fot@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">We were invited, we showed up in force, and we put on a great show for <br>
both the FOT and the world. It looks like the Lime Rock marketing <br>
machine will be do us proud, I look forward to see what becomes of all <br>
the work still going on behind the scenes.<br>
<br>
Speaking of marketing, hats off to Shawn Frank for all his work for us, <br>
what a valuable member of our team. Thanks Shawn!<br>
<br>
I want to thank everyone who came and supported the event. Racers, crew, <br>
and friends. Putting on a Kastner Cup takes teamwork, and while I might <br>
have been the seen as the guy pulling the strings, every one of you who <br>
was there, even in spirit only, were important to cause. You folks make <br>
it all work, as we know a club without active members isn't worth all <br>
that much.<br>
<br>
For me, one of the coolest parts of any KCup weekend is getting to meet <br>
and spend some time with our FOT brethren. This event gave us ample <br>
opportunity to really get to know some of our racing friends, and I hope <br>
everybody took full advantage.<br>
<br>
We had been planning on doing the awards ceremony at Triumph Central, <br>
under the tent by the Alexander paddock. We had 50 minutes from parking <br>
our cars after the race to start the presentation. I was informed the <br>
track wanted to do the presentation down in the A paddock at the <br>
winner's circle with about a half hour to go, and Skip Barber would be <br>
attending! So our team springs into action, circulates the word around <br>
the paddock (sorry to the folks who didn't get word in time), our stuff <br>
gets loaded into cars and shuttled down. I gather my thoughts, get <br>
cleaned up and ready for the presentation, find the winners circle with <br>
maybe 10 minutes to go. I get introduced to Skip, we are figuring out <br>
how this is all going to work, then I hear someone say David Hobbs is <br>
here. I turn to see David getting out of his golf cart, he walks over, <br>
we are introduced and he asks me "what do you want me to do?" I had <br>
known he was going to be there for maybe 30 seconds at that point! The <br>
notes I had jotted down for how the ceremony was to flow at this point <br>
are pretty meaningless, and it was time to wing it. Hopefully it didn't <br>
come off as haphazard as it seemed in my head! But heck, I got to <br>
introduce David Hobbs, that will probably be the highlight of my racing <br>
career!<br>
<br>
To recap the awards recipients:<br>
<br>
Kastner Cup - Dave Gott, TR4<br>
<br>
Amici Award - Jason Ostrowsky<br>
Performance Award - TR2-3 - Joe Boruch<br>
Performance Award - TR4 - Tony Drews<br>
Performance Award - TR250-6 - Henry Frye<br>
Performance Award - TR7-8 - Tim Cook<br>
Performance Award - GT6 - Alex Amys<br>
Performance Award - Spitfire - David Gussack (KCup race winner)<br>
Performance Award - Triumph Powered Special - Vic Schuster<br>
Sponsor Award - Western Pennsylvania Triumphs Association<br>
Sponsor Award - GoodParts<br>
Sponsor Award - Alexander Racing Equipment<br>
Honored Guest - David Hobbs<br>
<br>
One of the event sponsors is Autodromo, and they present a fine watch to <br>
a participant from each group that embodies the spirit of the event. I <br>
was told the guy who does the presentation for Autodromo was on track at <br>
the moment, so I was asked to do the deed. While I don't think I had <br>
their spiel down all that well, I was proud to present the watch to my <br>
new racing buddy, Alex Amys!<br>
<br>
I had to be reminded to announce the location of the next Kastner Cup, <br>
silly me as I am going to do this all again for next year. We are going <br>
to Mosport, currently known as the Canadian Tire Motorsports Park, in <br>
Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada. The home of the very first Kastner Cup. So <br>
mark your calendars for Father's Day weekend, 2026, ensure your passport <br>
is up to date, and stay tuned for more details as they become available!<br>
<br>
Also, it was hard not to notice I was hobbling around wearing a back <br>
brace all weekend. At the track for the test day on Tuesday I did <br>
something my back didn't like and for a while there I was thinking I <br>
could not race. It took a village to keep me in the game, thanks to <br>
everyone who helped me physically so I would make it out and be part of <br>
the show. My time on-track was awesome, thanks to Bob Lang and Alex Amys <br>
for some great dicing and encouragement to finally turn some laps down <br>
in the 1:04's. I beat my best lap from last year by .185 seconds!<br>
<br>
Again, thanks to everyone who participated. Job well done, looking <br>
forward to Mosport next year!<br>
<br>
Henry Frye<br>
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