Dave -I wonder if it is other business/family commitments, the gowing entry
fee expense, towing (gas) and motel/food expenses or reluctance to keep
getting beaten by the top drivers or what that has diminished the fields. I
saw this 20 years ago where you had a large number of S2000s for the early
races and were lucky to get 3 S2000s for the late season races (and it wasnt
because of crashes or blown engines either) Perhaps the new rules changes
will encourage more people. If not I guess I will see more cars at the
regional races or we will all be autocrossing.
Captain Eddie
From: "Dave Pomfret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [F500] KBS MK THIS AND THAT
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:29:25 -0500
Ed,
Not sure about which way I'm heading with racing. Went to Summit Point
this
weekend to spectate, there was ONE F500 and 6 FV. This was the first F500
entered at Summit Point this year except for the National. Why prep a car
to lap a bunch of Vees?
Dave
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Dave - Interesting. Do you have another car or are you getting out of F500?
Ever since the gentlemen from the South & Southwest asked about cars for
sale I have seen a growing number
of people who say their cars are for sale. An old adage in stock market
trading is that for every sale there has to be a buyer but is the direction
going away from road racing and more into autocross?
Here in the Northeast it seems we have relatively few cars competing in
F500
road racing either regionally or nationally. I guess the rest are in
autocross. There is a combined Natl/Regl coming up at Lime Rock on the 28th
of this month. I expect to see only 5-6 F500s for the Natl and God knows
how
many for the regl which is a limited regl called the "open wheel challenge"
for those regl classes using open wheel cars including F500. It will be
interesting to see how many show up. Since no one answered my question re
the Mk6 I can only presume it was less than a rousing success in DSR.
Ed Capullo
>From: "Dave Pomfret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: [F500] KBS MK THIS AND THAT
>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:45:49 -0500
>
>Eric,
>
>I have a 1999 Mk 8.5 that was reworked enough by the Edwards and Kenny
>Price
>to win the 1999 RunOffs with Jeff Auberger at the wheel. I believe it is
>#005. AS soon as I put it back together it will appear in F500
>Classifieds.
>
>Dave Pomfret
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric D
>Christensen
>Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 12:21 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [F500] KBS MK THIS AND THAT
>
>On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 21:51 -0400, Jeff Blumenthal wrote:
> > I also have the a Mk8 (#1) and it was homologated 12/95.
>
>That must have been Rusty Cook's... or was it Jack Walbran's?
>
>I had Mk 8 #002... which was a lie... it was actually the first that
>shipped 'cause I pestered Mike constantly about it. After he had to loan
>me the prototype for a couple races 'cause my car was late he finally
>got it together enough for me to go fetch it.
>
>The Mk8 was a weird design originally with long trailing arms that ran
>up almost to mid chassis. It worked... I set the track record at Laguna
>Seca with that car 3 weeks after I picked it up. But it had a fatal
>geometry flaw that made it stick like snot until the very moment that
>the back end let go. Rusty and Jack know what I'm talking about. Instant
>spin... no warning... no chance of catching it.
>
>The Mk8.5 was the "fix" for the Mk8, which went back to a semi-4 link..
>but with massive right side aluminum trailing arm assembly like the
>Mk-5. My mk-8 was the first victim to get and test the retrofit. I never
>understood why Mike Kierns didn't go with the 4-link like Quadrini. It
>obviously worked... and still does (as a string of Runoffs winners can
>attest to). In my humble opinion.. the MK8.5 is a pretty decent chassis,
>but it is just a updated Mk-V. Without the true 4-link it never was
>really competitive with the Invader at the time.
>
>Somebody should really be capturing this thread... with a little bit of
>distilling, I'll bet we could come up with a decent history of KBS for
>the web site.
>
>--E
>
>
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