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[Randal]

We all have our special moments on the track, autoxing, running an enduro or some special motor sports event.

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[stewteral]

We all have our special moments on the track, autoxing, running an enduro or some special motor sports event.

What's yours? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Another Riverside tale:

It was the late 1970's when a friend and I were both racing Datsun 510s. He came up with the idea of running the 3-hr enduro, driving his car.

My bud did 1st practice with me at the wheel for the 2nd on Riverside's Long Course. I was coming down the LONG back straight and just shifted to 5 gear when I heard: Wobble, Wobble, BLAM.....tinkle, tinkle, tinkle. Something hit my right arm with BIG force and I figured I should even look until I coasted back into the pits. At the "tinkle" sound I looked up and saw the drive shaft cartwheeling on the track behind me.

Once in the pits, we found not only had the drive shaft over-speeded and failed but the bell housing broken, the diff housing was broken and the starter had been shaken to pieces and broken too. Happily, I was NOT bleeding as it was the fire extinguisher (with no shap edges) that was launched from the tunnel to my arm. The driveshaft blew a hole in the tunnel and catapulted the fire bottle.
The sharp edges stayed put in the sheet metal of the tunnel.

We figured we were DONE and it was time to go home. Then this damn SCCA guy showed up and asked how bad things were. We told him while moaning the destruction. He asked 1 question: "Well do you have spares to fix the car?" We looked at each other and said "OH, CRAP!" All we needed was
in my garage only 2 hours away.

So we dragged his car back, raided mine for the parts and were up to 2:00 AM putting it back together. I drove the 15 miles home to get only 3 hours of sleep and then was back to drag the 2 hours to the track.

We started from my co-pilot's practice lap time for the grid position and while being top-speed-limited by wrong gearing in my diff, we finished 2nd in class. What a great time to play enduro Racer!

Terry