<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>Which only goes to prove once again everything is more dangerous then open road racing ;-)</div><div><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><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#007f7f">The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing </font><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:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> Asa Jay Laughton <asajay@asajay.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> tpr@teampanteraracing.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat, May 28, 2011 5:48:14 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [TPR] Oh! that hurts.<br></font><br>Autocross today at Spokane County Raceway, not the usual course at Deer <br>Park airport. They've just finished re-routing the road course and our <br>local autocross club managed to get a big chunk of it today for us to <br>try out our driver skills. This makes for a faster course as all the <br>autocross elements are laid out in-line with the road coarse.<br><br>This can also be deceptive, challenging and dangerous if you're not <br>paying attention. Such unlucky fortune found it my way today.<br><br>First run of the day, cold track, cold tires. Didn't take it easy <br>enough. Ran OFF track and nosed
my Pantera into a ditch when I failed <br>to negotiate a slalom. The previously dented front valance now is <br>dented severely to include new creases. Well, I -was- going to replace <br>that anyway. And as further luck would have it, as I inspected and <br>hammered it out just a tad, I found where that funny warm coolant odor <br>was coming from. <sigh> Looks like the Fluidyne radiator is weeping <br>just a tad on the drivers side from some tube (I haven't found exactly <br>where yet). Not enough to leave drops on the garage floor yet, but <br>we'll need to get that fixed.<br><br>Second and third runs went much better and by the end of the day we were <br>spanking the course pretty darn hard.<br><br>Sooo....<br><br>- Glad I've not started a restoration project yet<br>- She's still pulling hard and driving fine (though the driver needs a <br>bit more experience)<br>- Having fun despite the tiny
setbacks.<br><br>:)<br>Asa Jay<br><br>-- <br>Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired<br>& Shelley Marie<br>Spokane, WA<br>******************************<br><a href="http://www.racingagainstautism.com" target="_blank">http://www.racingagainstautism.com</a><br><a href="http://www.teampanteraracing.com" target="_blank">http://www.teampanteraracing.com</a><br><a href="http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism" target="_blank">http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TPR mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com">TPR@teampanteraracing.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.teampanteraracing.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tpr" target="_blank">http://lists.teampanteraracing.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tpr</a><br></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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