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SignUp Now!Hey Clay,Bill Thompson was the first to break into the 10's with a 10.91 Red was next both done durring qualifying. John Tubbs went a 10.98 on race day. Red won Bill got 2nd John 3rd and Kip 4th. Congrats to all
Clay
I was unable to stay for the actual racing due to business commitments related to the DNA lab but it was great to hear that finally we saw not one but three totally stock appearing TR's in the 10's----------one of them ran a 10 second pass within a couple hours of winning gold in the concours car show---------thats almost unheard of and when i first proposed that the cars should "show and go" I was told no one would ever consider it -----------really hate that I missed that great milestone in TR history---------from the very beginning it was a dream of mine that this was possible and I felt that offering a good purse would help to motivate the innovaters to achieve just that---------at this point 2 things stand out in my mind very clearly----------I remember reading in Turbo and high tech performance mag in 1990 where they described Ken Duttweiler as a "magic man" because he was running 10's with a 6 cylinder stage engine buick in a lightened race car with all sorts of exotic equipment----------i also remember that when i first posted the rules and proposed this class that several nay sayers including one self righteous expert posted the following response: "this is the dumbest idea for a class ever, it is clear that the person who came up with this class knows nothing about TR's and all that is going to result from this is a bunch of really slow cars going down the track"----------with more than one 10 second car not only has it resulted in some fast cars (these are truly street cars and 10 seconds in a fully equipped stock looking car is respectable by any measure) but it has also resulted in some great racing action---------the difference in first place and second place was 17 thousands of a second--------it took 4 years and nearly $50k in prize money but finally we can say a stock looking TR can run 10's.....................RCHey Clay,
Did you race this year? How many participants in TSA this year?
Did Richard Clark make an offer on any of the 10 sec cars??
Clay, sorry to hear about the axle, hope all is good other than that incident. I am sure you would have been in there again! What will next year bring? 10.5Hi Steve
Well lets say I tried to race. I broke an axel on the launch against John in round one. There were 5 cars again this year. To the best of my knowlege no offers were made. I only saw Richard once on Friday.
Clay
I was unable to stay for the actual racing due to business commitments related to the DNA lab but it was great to hear that finally we saw not one but three totally stock appearing TR's in the 10's----------one of them ran a 10 second pass within a couple hours of winning gold in the concours car show---------thats almost unheard of and when i first proposed that the cars should "show and go" I was told no one would ever consider it -----------really hate that I missed that great milestone in TR history---------from the very beginning it was a dream of mine that this was possible and I felt that offering a good purse would help to motivate the innovaters to achieve just that---------at this point 2 things stand out in my mind very clearly----------I remember reading in Turbo and high tech performance mag in 1990 where they described Ken Duttweiler as a "magic man" because he was running 10's with a 6 cylinder stage engine buick in a lightened race car with all sorts of exotic equipment----------i also remember that when i first posted the rules and proposed this class that several nay sayers including one self righteous expert posted the following response: "this is the dumbest idea for a class ever, it is clear that the person who came up with this class knows nothing about TR's and all that is going to result from this is a bunch of really slow cars going down the track"----------with more than one 10 second car not only has it resulted in some fast cars (these are truly street cars and 10 seconds in a fully equipped stock looking car is respectable by any measure) but it has also resulted in some great racing action---------the difference in first place and second place was 17 thousands of a second--------it took 4 years and nearly $50k in prize money but finally we can say a stock looking TR can run 10's.....................RC
Yes, that is John's car.That black & chrome car is BEAUTIFUL!! Is that John Tubbs car?
K.