[TPR] FINAL RESULTS ATTACHED

[Steven Donegan]

Actually I find 100 MPH target to be quite fun :-) But then I am trying to zero my time, and anything above 120 or so will make my navigator say 'no way' :-) And she is my wife so the only times I'll be able to go faster (after I ace 100 class) is with my other Navigator Alvin - he has no fear - hell he went flying with me while I was PIC :-)

The run yesterday was a blast - sadly I was 22 seconds slow - gruesome details boiled down to a car with tire pressure monitoring system telling me I was about to lose a tire - so the narrows were run at 85 MPH as a blowout there would be ugly (and potentially messing up the car, or getting us injured or worse hitting a mountain at triple digit speeds just wasn't worth the risk). After exit I simply did not have enough time (or confidence in the tires at 120+) to make up the lost time... I believe the TPMS warning was BS, but have not yet checked everything.

That said - we still had a blast! I believe I'll investigate run flat's since I need new tires for May anyway :-)


 
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Steven Donegan
SSCC/NORC Life Member, Car #86
www.sscc.us



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 From: Teampantera <teampantera at yahoo.com>
To: Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com>; tpr at teampanteraracing.com 
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [TPR] FINAL RESULTS ATTACHED
 

I am glad to hear your dad bullet had a good time. He is an amazing man.

Dont beat yourself up on timing...sure the Pope is gonna share how he did it assuming you dont want to run in his class! ;-)))

So  I understand you want that 1st place  but honestly as JB suggested it does take some of the fun out of it when you know you have to be within a THOUSANDS of a second to win.

I think for those guys like or Mark  who jist want to run balls out part of the satisfaction is going fast and finishing. For others like Steve Donegan stuck in 100 MPH HELL for 10 uears it is okay too...that is my liberal answer.

What you and Mark (and JB, Peter, the pope, Rich, and everyone else who has done this) have accomplished is to do drive your vintage panteras (I used to do it too) far from home to race or rally and then drive home again. Just that alone is BIG in my book.

So be proud of what you did...
I am proud of you and all the guys. It is about the team and the friendships and the adrenelin, and the competition but first of all above everything else it is geting away feom home.....no just kidding about that. ;-))))

Go have a beer and relax.



Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com> wrote:

>Bullet and I are in Ontario Oregon overnighting prior to the final run  
>home tomorrow.  The Pantera continued to run well at 60, 70 and 75 MPH  
>in the appropriate zones and even did well up to about 85 when  
>passing. No complaints.
>
>I think Dad (that's Bullet) had a great time.  It looked to me like it  
>took at least 10 years off him while we were in Ely and just hanging  
>out.  It was a really great trip this year.
>
>We've already been noodling ideas on what we need to do to the Pantera  
>next, to make it even better at 120 and faster.  I'll post more  
>details in the next couple of days.
>
>I stuck to the plan this year and managed to be only about 5.5 seconds  
>off time.  I should have been closer, I'll tell you later, why I wasn't.
>
>Asa Jay
>
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>Quoting Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>:
>
>> Boyz,
>> Mark asked (great idea!) if I would scan results so here they are.  
>> make sure you check 120 and 140 classes cause those are your heros!  
>> ;-))))
>>
>> ME HOME.....thanks to Peter the German for riding shotgun to and from Ely.
>> Good Times
>>
>> Dawg
>>
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