[TPR] Grasshoppers on the road course & ORR Flags

[Mad Dog Antenucci]

I hear ya Rowdy.....On bud slowing down I agree with you as well......it sounds 
like Sept was a bigger problem when Bud ran then May when I ran because they had 
the usual FUBAR situation with accident and people having their heads up their 
asses with the accident and the  flags again.

On the SORC road and chip sealing.....yea it was slick as their is allot more 
chip then there is SEAL......so I can't imagine running that road on race 
tires.....but when we are talking about Nevada grasshoppers we are talking 
places where there were as JB said MILLIONS in one dense area of the road....I 
can still smell those damn things....blowing out the radiator was the easy part. 
I used several increasingly stronger cleaners until I got to kerosene to clean 
bottom of the Pantera....anything stronger took out undercoating and paint.  
 
Mad Dawg Antenucci 
Team Pantera Racing 
The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
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From: Bob Radefeld <bob at dodgecarroll.com>
To: tpr at teampanteraracing.com
Sent: Sun, December 12, 2010 7:30:04 AM
Subject: [TPR] Grasshoppers on the road course & ORR Flags

 
I've yet to run the Pony Express but MD should  remember the first year I raced 
with him @ SORC. I only made one preliminary run  about 1/2 way up the north leg 
to get an idea of what kind of grip the Pantera  had on the tricky chip & seal 
surface of the road. When I got back to the  hunting trailer I decided to clean 
up the car for the upcoming parade & car  show that afternoon & DAMN, there were 
so may grasshoppers in my grill I  couldn't believe I was getting any airflow 
through my radiator at all. Took me a  good hour to just clean the grill. Made 
me wonder if I might overheat the car on  the north leg the next day? Luckily, I 
didn't but I did make sure I had what was  needed to clean the grill @ the 
halfway point before running the south leg of  the race. Odd thing was, most all 
of those those buggers were right on  the road surface so you hardly ever got 
one on your windshield - go figure?? I  spent the better part of a day once I 
got home just cleaning  them out of  the radiator fins - a real PIA!
 
 Great contribution of the flags to SSCC Asa!  I'm in total agreement with 
everyone else concerning flying the green flags @  all the course worker 
stations. I think Bud inadvertently slowed down several  times @ SSCC this year 
due to seeing some of those "non" course worker flags - a  real bummer!!
 
Bob   
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