[Vintage-race] could have been at the BRIC

[Carl McLelland]

Just the opposite occurred at the 'parade' before the HMSA Reno (Nevada)
Historic Races in May. Approx. 35 race cars assembled at the National Auto
Museum on Wednesday, May 2nd. Reno Police Dept. was 'supposed to' have blocked
all the intersections for the seven or eight block parade from the museum to
Virginia Street where the cars were on display for three hours, then escort us
back to the museum to load.

For the parade 'to' Virginia Street we averaged about 5 miles per hour with
stops every fifty feet or so. I was in my Lotus 61, directly behind me was a
McLaren M10A F5000 and he was followed by a Gurney Eagle/Weslake F1 car. I
would rather imagine they had some serious clutch overheating before we
arrived. (Don't know about the others, but we three were getting pretty hot in
the clutch department).

About fifteen minutes before we were supposed to head back it started raining.
Oh well, 'real' race cars race in the rain.... The problem: it was dark, and
the side streets Reno PD led us on were equally dark! I don't know how the
others handled it, but I damaged my skid plate when I dropped a wheel in one
of Reno's "infamous pot holes".

No problems with HMSA or the National Auto Museum... but Reno PD needs to work
on their routine before next years parade.
    Carl    Lotus 61 FF

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  Subject: [Vintage-race] could have been at the BRIC


  Last year during the parade to town, the McLarens were doing burnouts, and
  the one guy ended up upside down in the ditch.

  Check this sad story out.

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19267840/

  Wm. Severin Thompson