<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. <br> </div><div><strong><font color="#0000ff"><em>Mad Dawg Antenucci <br></em></font><font color="#ff0000">Team Pantera Racing</font></strong> </div> <div><em><strong>The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing <br></strong></em><font color="#0000ff"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.teampanteraracing.com">www.teampanteraracing.com</a></font></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Bob Radefeld <bob@dodgecarroll.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> tpr@teampanteraracing.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, December 12, 2010 7:30:04 AM<br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [TPR] Grasshoppers on the road course & ORR Flags<br></font><br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">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!</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> 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!!</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Bob </font></div>
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