NHIS - Oct. 20-21 photo's

StephanAlfa · Post by **StephanAlfa** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:15 am

Steve:
Sam is referring to Tom Panella who ran in the Mazda 3 in SSC class.

Tom C in the Mustang is fine after a few advils and motrins ...

enjoythemusic · Post by **enjoythemusic** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:06 pm

StephanAlfa wrote:Tom C in the Mustang is fine after a few advils and motrins ...

Yes, i was referring to Tom C. Was getting my Pi2 beacon from the track when i saw the flatbed coming off the track with Tom C in the passenger seat and his first words to me were filled with good humor. i was so very relieved to se him ok and in good spirits.

Tom knows the true words about never track a car you would not push off a tall cliff and walk away from and not be deeply concerned, but have seen where other track guys at other events have not fully accepted this fact and, well...

FYI: Was driving at WGI last year and a very, very, truly mean VERY expensive vintage (?late 1950's?) red Barchetta got lightly walled about 10 car lengths in front of me and... i think his repair bill easily cost more than my entire car(!).

Post by **dinoracer** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:49 pm

Thanks everyone for the concern. I'm fine, and I'll fix the car in time for April NHIS. Solid American steel took the hit well; some other cars would have fared a lot worse I'm sure.

Thinking about it a bit, if you have to hit something at NHIS, that's probably the best place to do so. The foamblocks help, but the fact that the jersey barriers gave way (pushed 2 of them over) helped absorb a lot of energy. Kudos to the ramp truck guy for carefully picking the car from it's perch on top of the toppled concrete... As for the root cause, I'd say 10% used-up tires and 90% driver stupidity. Made the pass I shouldn't have, and ran out of braking zone.

enjoythemusic · Post by **enjoythemusic** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:59 am

Tom C,

Will be great to see her back in action in April.

(Good friendly humor) You proved that good ol' American Muscle cars are very strong and have great torque...

Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall.
Torque is how far you take the wall with you.

Subw00er · Post by **Subw00er** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:24 am

Nice!

Post by **chaos4NH** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:41 am

JackFFR1846 wrote:Pat, your dad's Healy came out really, really nice! That MAC paint works. I never would have thought it would be that nice after seeing its initial stages when I picked up the Lexan.

I think there are 7 pages of Sam's red speed 3 and 7 pages of my student's silver speed 3 in there. No pix of my CRX that I could see.

I want one of those speed 3's after being in one for a day!!!

Jack, you are not alone, here is Crap and Drivels latest comparo:

http://www.caranddriver.com/comparisons ... o-c30.html

mossaidis · Post by **mossaidis** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:16 pm

McMahonRacing wrote:If anyone happens to have some pics of the Yellow/Gray Healy & the # 67 A Red /Yellow # Mustang ... could you please send me a copy .... McMahoP@Chesterton.com ... Thanks ... Pat

Any more photos that folks are willing to share? I remember someone taking photos at the top of turn 6.

Obviously, I am looking to collect photos of the little pesky honda which kept beeping at turn #3.

StephanAlfa · Post by **StephanAlfa** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:47 pm

Just FYI so far I had no responses.
I( know the flagger at turn 3 was taking pix. Someone at 2a/b was there too (that's why I lost time... I was looking at them!!!

) and then someone at the exit of 6 by the benches.
Where are those guys?!?!?!?!?!?!? :dontknow: :-k

Post by **WillM** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:19 am

StephanAlfa wrote: Where are those guys?!?!?!?!?!?!? :dontknow: :-k

They got back into their black helicopters and then flew back to the auto insurance companies' secret headquarters.

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