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[Chris Radisich]

It was cool seeing all those old cars at the bench race on Saturday night.

I'll have to remember next year to bring some of my old stuff I have here with me. Lots of cool scratchbuilt 1/32 stuff from New Zealand in the late '60s and early '70s, built by guys that started our club off in New Zealand in the early '60s.

[Cheater]

Amelia was not that good?

 

On the contrary, this Amelia, the fifteenth, was in the opinions of many the best ever.

There were some very interesting classes: a Duesenberg class, a Porsche 917 class, a Mercedes 300SL gullwing class, a Mercedes 500/540K class (!), a class for "Cars You Never Heard Of", and one for Eceterinis - Italian sports racers like Bandinis and Stanguelinis. I believe over 300 cars were on the field.

While chatting with my best man, Don Peterson, in a quiet corner of the Ritz-Carlton lobby, up walks Roy Sjoberg, who is called "Father of the Viper", to sit and shoot the stuff with us for about half an hour. Then his fellow judge Paul Ianuario joined us; he's been the curator of the BMW Museum in Spartanburg, SC, for the last nine years. Nice guys all of them...

The weather wasn't the very best, as it was cold to coolish in the mornings and pretty windy most of the weekend, but as long as the sun was out (and it was until the middle of Sunday afternoon), it was comfortable.

I didn't pull my usual trick of hitting the field well before dawn... it was simply too cold and windy for me to want to stand around for two-three hours until the concours got rolling... so I don't have as many pictures as I usually take between dawn and the 9 o'clock gate-opening simply because the crowd makes it very difficult to take pics until mid-afternoon when it starts to thin out. I'll post some of the pics I did take a little later.

Back to your regularly-scheduled thread; sorry for the drift.

[911GT3]

I think most realized in the heats that the racing/cars was so close that you had to keep your car on to stay in the hunt.

A one lap win is only a five second lead. One deslot and that goes away quickly.

The biggest thanks I can give is to the TURN MARSHALLS who marshalled the Can-Am main so good. They were on it and got the cars back in quickly and cleanly.

 

Ron, I think I nodded off a couple of times while marshalling the Can-Am main. You and a couple of others were kind enough to wake me up. From what little I could see, it was a great race.

[MantaRay]

BTW......I do not know if it was mentioned earlier...........Eric did a great job as Race Director for his first R4.........Same goes for Rick Maynard.......