Wow I'm still tired.
what a weekend.
I made a few mistakes and will get to that in a minute, but WOW I had fun!

2 day event at pueblo.
ran some decent times.
They had sprint races on saturday and an enduro on sunday.

Just to make it exciting they did a "lemans" start on saturday. Not a real lemans start, but a safer version.

Each driver had a designated runner, while the driver was fully strapped into their car with the motor turned off.

Cars were gridded right on the track.

When the green flag flew the runners all ran across the track and tagged the drivers hand.

that was the signal that allowed you to start the motor and go. CRAZY... 25 cars all pulling out at the same time.
My group is big bore, so needless to say the shelbys and camaro's pulled away in the 1/4 mile from a standing start.

wheweeeeeeeyyyyyy:

So on Sunday was the enduro. They combined all of the fendered cars into one class and all of the open wheel cars into a 2nd class.

Talk about traffic.
it was like 3 races rolled into one.
what a blast!
61 cars took the checkered flag in the production group that I ran.. The sight was rather amazing for a newbie like me. Here we are trying to get gridded out:

Here I am.
I qualified 21st overall:

QUOTE (brant @ Oct 3 2005, 12:46 PM)

Here I am. I qualified 21st overall:

In a MGB ?












Sorry............ Enduros kick ass.........It is a feat just to finish.

QUOTE (SLITS @ Oct 3 2005, 12:53 PM)

[In a MGB ? Sorry............ Enduros kick ass.........It is a feat just to finish.

funny guy..
I know a few of those MG's beat me

but I did finish... would have done better except for my screw up...

So here it is:
The race is 1 hour 45 minutes of driving plus two required 10 minute pit stops. (2hour 5 minutes total)

You can take the pit stops at any time you desire.
You pull into a timing area and they write the current time plus the 10 minutes onto a card. Then you can go into the pits. My pit was WAaaayyyy across the paddock.
At my first stop, I got my card.. drove to my pit.. added gas.. check the tires... ran to the bathroom... got back into the car, belted up and got ready to drive out and turn my card in.. hmmmm card... hmmm... where did I put that dang card?

yep... I lost my stupid card.
I laid it on my dash and during my drive across the paddock it blew off of the dash without my noticing.

I was frantic.
we walked all through the pits
never found the card (well, found it 4 hours later when we were loading up)

finally I went back to the track out about 5 minutes late.
Told them my sad story, and they told me to go out.
So I lost about 5 minutes of hot track time.
I finished 25th overall, and I think I would have been close to 10th or 12th If I hadn't made such a stupid mistake...

here is my fancy shmancy timing system:

Despite my rookie error... I really had a BLAST!

it was so fun to mix it up with all different types of cars.
With 2 times the normal cars out there the traffic was thick, and you were either passing or being passed on every single corner:

that timing system looks heavy...

fun:

QUOTE (Aaron Cox @ Oct 3 2005, 01:47 PM)

that timing system looks heavy...

good one.

Here is another action shot:

QUOTE (Aaron Cox @ Oct 3 2005, 12:47 PM)

that timing system looks heavy...  :lol:

To funny Aaron, LOL Trust me, if I know Brant, (and I do) he had about 3-4 different stopwatches and weighed each on a gram scale and picked the lightest one!

Way to go Brant

Ferg

battled lap after lap with a couple of cars.
surprisingly some of the MG's and the Datsun, could pull me in the straights..... Dang those motors are pretty well developed compaired to my stock motor.

but I could actually out corner most of them:

what is your stock motor?

straightaway:

QUOTE (TROJANMAN @ Oct 3 2005, 01:54 PM)

what is your stock motor?

Greg,
2.0S/6
147hp at the rear wheels

Here is a long time friend (bob) in a 911 leading a really nice guy(brian) in his bmw:

Bob is about the nicest guy you could ever meet:

More traffic:

Ditto:

QUOTE (brant @ Oct 3 2005, 12:59 PM)

Bob is about the nicest guy you could ever meet:

i thought you held that honor. of course, i haven't met bob yet

sports racers:

QUOTE (TROJANMAN @ Oct 3 2005, 02:07 PM)

QUOTE (brant @ Oct 3 2005, 12:59 PM) Bob is about the nicest guy you could ever meet: i thought you held that honor. of course, i haven't met bob yet

you must be feeling guilty about something...
don't try and smooth talk me.
(you had better go to second creek!)

Here are the 2 wheels that Dad refinished...
He really did a nice job!

ok. i take that back, b/c i have met bob. he's your dad.

QUOTE (TROJANMAN @ Oct 3 2005, 02:13 PM)

ok. i take that back, b/c i have met bob. he's your dad.

oopss...
a bunch of bob's.
I meant this bob:

(although my dad is a nice bob too)

I guess i'll be the 1st to mention the flamingos....????

Sounds like a great weekend

BJH

the paddock and most of the production cars that ran:

another:

This car was beautifully finished..
look at how they smoothed out all of the seams for aero
He also pulled me in the straights, but not in the corners:

Uhhhhhh.....since when did fire suits have hair?



Nice job Brant

QUOTE (SLITS @ Oct 3 2005, 02:17 PM)

Uhhhhhh.....since when did fire suits have hair? Nice job Brant

I'm easily confused....


The flamingo's are an ongoing long time joke by the corner workers... They try to see how close to the edge of the track they can get them without having too many die in the process.

I've shown many of these cars before, but still fun:

This car is surprisingly fast:

Here is a trivia car for everyone...
anyone know what this is (answer to follow):

the shot of your timer.....the firesuit has hair on the legs.\




Car = Cooper? The "suprisingly fast" one. Trying to think of all the trash that came from Britian.

I love these 1950 british version of a dzus fastener (this is the same car as above):

QUOTE (SLITS @ Oct 3 2005, 02:24 PM)

the shot of your timer.....the firesuit has hair on the legs.

ohhhhsss... I getsss it...
just a little slow at times.

Here is a picture for ferguson:

forgive me for the stupid question, but what group did you run with? PCA ? SCCA. It looks like a ton of fun.

Thanks

Nice, but where's my Falcon?

QUOTE (Ferg @ Oct 3 2005, 02:32 PM)

Nice, but where's my Falcon?  ;)

Sitting on your leather glove....waiting to be dispatched.....Falcon (Sprint)?

Coventry Climax (don't look...no sex here).

Highly modified Spriget?

Gotta be about a 55 Austin Healy.....but the door handles throw me.

QUOTE (SLITS @ Oct 3 2005, 02:24 PM)

Car = Cooper? The "suprisingly fast" one. Trying to think of all the trash that came from Britian.

The blue car is a GSM
I don't know the displacement... but its a glass bodied car and I'm betting its light

more pics of ferg's stang:

Brant,

Your car looks like it's really down in the grass. Can you give an indaction of rid heigth ? for example: distance from pavement to the donuts under the floor pan.

QUOTE (SLITS @ Oct 3 2005, 01:34 PM)

QUOTE (Ferg @ Oct 3 2005, 02:32 PM) Nice, but where's my Falcon?  ;) Sitting on your leather glove....waiting to be dispatched.....Falcon (Sprint)? Coventry Climax (don't look...no sex here). Highly modified Spriget? Gotta be about a 55 Austin Healy.....but the door handles throw me.

Yup a 1963 Falcon Sprint....

QUOTE (sjhowitson @ Oct 3 2005, 02:32 PM)

forgive me for the stupid question, but what group did you run with? PCA ? SCCA. It looks like a ton of fun. Thanks

Not stupid at all.
rocky mountain vintage racing, its the colorado vintage club. Their site:RMVR

back seat of the boss:

QUOTE (SLITS @ Oct 3 2005, 02:34 PM)

Highly modified Spriget? Gotta be about a 55 Austin Healy.....but the door handles throw me.

Ron,

I'm betting the year is about right
but its not a healey or modified spridget
keep trying... (I didn't know either)


sorry for all the stang shots:

Don't be sorry me like Fords

Ferg

last stang shot for a while:

QUOTE (brant @ Oct 3 2005, 01:24 PM)

Here is a trivia car for everyone... anyone know what this is (answer to follow):

Sunbeam tiger ?

QUOTE (michel richard @ Oct 3 2005, 02:49 PM)

Brant, Your car looks like it's really down in the grass. Can you give an indaction of rid heigth ? for example: distance from pavement to the donuts under the floor pan.

I don't remember for sure.
I know that our very first attempt at ride height was 2.5 inches, but we moved it way up when we got around to corner balance and alignment. The car has custom front and rear shocks to run a lower stance, and also custom front struts that are body dropped.

More british cars:

QUOTE (michel richard @ Oct 3 2005, 02:58 PM)

QUOTE (brant @ Oct 3 2005, 01:24 PM) Here is a trivia car for everyone... anyone know what this is (answer to follow): Sunbeam tiger ?

Nope...
although there was a sunbeam alpine running:

MG's galore:

Here is a F5000 that I'm happy to say was not in my class:

QUOTE (brant @ Oct 3 2005, 02:02 PM)

QUOTE (michel richard @ Oct 3 2005, 02:58 PM) QUOTE (brant @ Oct 3 2005, 01:24 PM) Here is a trivia car for everyone... anyone know what this is (answer to follow): Sunbeam tiger ? Nope... although there was a sunbeam alpine running:

Guess I was concentrating on the rear wings too much. The grille is wrong.

Thanks for the info on ride heigth.

another of the same: