| Glad to hear Eric won E-Prod! Unfortunately we did not get a chance to get to
the race track this past week (or this past year...) I'll see what info I can
dig up, though.
Maybe I'll start working EV again when we get our '26 Studebaker hearse on the
road, that ought to turn some heads! :-)
Dave
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| Let's not forget the results for FF. I heard that in FA, no RT40's
showed but Greg Ray was running 2 seconds faster than the next car in
qualifying in his Swift.
My brother was trying to put together some sponsorship for the race
but the money didn't come through in time. His Ralt RT4 (FA) was on
display in the lobby of the Jacob Javits Convention Center in N.Y. for
the Imaging Expo a couple of weeks back. He had sponsorship from
about six companies like Richoh (sp), Imaging Magazine and File Magic.
They almost had sponsorship from Epson. At the last minute, the rep.
said that since they also sponsored an F1 car, he'd have to get
permission from Japan to put the name on my brother's car. The car
looked great! Since then, he has sold it and bought a Swift DB4. Drool
Glenn
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| Some of the happenings from Road Atlanta...
In FA, Greg Ray qualified on the pole by about 2 seconds, so he and his
crew went out to celebrate. Seems Greg fell and broke his wrist so he
was wearing a cast during the race. Just to handicap him further, he
accidently hit a switch during the pace lap, stalled the car, and had
to start from last. If this slowed him down any, I couldn't tell from
turn one, since he was by far the fastest FA car through that turn.
This helped him win the Mark Donahue award Sunday at the banquet.
In GT5 on Wednesday's qualifying, Jeff Worth hit another car on the
first lap after the other car had spun in it's own oil---there was no
yellow flag out at the time. Jeff fixed the car in time to race but
with no qualifying time started last. Two Mini's were leading on a wet
track but Cooper failed to finish the last lap. Jeff was second. Don't
know any other results.
In FV there were several crashes, including a bad one on the first
start. In the end, Nobel won a very close finish.
EP was won by Kruger when he received the checker in pit lane behind
the pace car. There was an incident at the bridge involving about 5
cars around lap 12, so a pace car was brought out. After a few laps
behind the pace car, the decision was made to stop the race since the
clean up was going to take awhile. Included in the incident were Greg
Crandell, Wheeler in the TR4, and Paul Sproel (sp). The top 4 were:
Kruger, Rock Vest, John Baucom, Vic Skirmants.
FP started with the pole sitter, Craig Chima, getting black flagged for
jumping the start. It continued with the track drying and becomming a
race to see who guessed right on tire selecting. It finished with Danny
Montee winning and Bob Boig finishing second.
GP was run on Friday in the dry. The winner on the track was
disquallified for several things, which I won't go into here. The
winner was Steve Sargis for the second in a row, Joe Hauser (74 years
young) second, Don Hough third, Vic Skirmants fourth, yours truly fifth
after starting 14th.
HP was like FP in weather and tire selection. It started with a
spin/crash at turn one on the start that took out Randy Canfield, and
finished with Steve Hussey first, Jon Stamps second, Ray Yergler third,
Ray Stone fourth.
Thats all I remember.....
Chris
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| For anyone who saw the Runoffs results on ESPN's Speedweek-they did not
take into account "lap 19", also known as the impound results.
In a brief interview with Greg Ray, he said he broke his finger, not
wrist, in a freak accident when he dropped his keys. So much for the
story I heard.....
Others must have some interesting stories to tell. It was a loooong
week.
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