Many Congratulations to Chris for successfully completing school and getting his license!! Nice going, Chris!! And many thanks to all those who helped make it possible, Joe, David, Steven, April and everyone whose names I've forgotten to mention.
I know y'all would have been there for me, too. I'm still so disappointed I could spit nails. Of all the days for the weather to be nasty and roads icy, it had to be the one on which I was to travel. Still no luck with rounding up a crew for Roebling Road, but I remain hopeful. One nice guy volunteered, but had to withdraw after he found he was being assigned as an instructor. So anyone here who's thinking of doing that school, your instructor will probably be an F5 driver. He told me he's bound to draw the F5 and FV students. It'll be great to learn the ropes from somebody who actually drives these machines. Hey, Captain Eddie, I'm really sorry I haven't answered your email sooner, but yes, I'm practicing all your great suggestions. Just a crying shame I'm practicing those lessons in a heavy FWD daily driver instead of my sweet little F5. Hope to change that soon and race with y'all. Cheers, Sammye > Subject: > Re: [F500] Crew for School at Roebling Road?? > From: > "Richard Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:43:46 -0600 > To: > <[email protected]> > > To: > <[email protected]> > > > Joe, > > Why were there cones on the track ? The last time I put my car on a track > that had cones I hit one. Caused lots of damage to the underside of my car > and almost tipped my over. At that point, I vowed never to race on a track > that had cones, and I'm sticking to it. > > Richard > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 10:58 PM > Subject: Re: [F500] Crew for School at Roebling Road?? > > > >> Yes . . . snow on Thursday and cold on Friday, but by Saturday it was warm >> again mid-day, in the 50's. Actually turned out to be a good racing >> (School) weekend. Clear both day, just a little chilly. In fact, we >> > never > >> even set-up the canopy. >> >> Please welcome Chris "Conehead" Hodde . . . the latest "Classmate" from >> Texas. Conehead made and finished every session and was running a nice >> > pace > >> and making clean, safe passes . . . save one incident with a cone! >> >> We hope to see Coney at the National races by year-end 2007 >> >> We also identified a solid new class prospect in Darryl "Scooter" Reese, >> > who > >> also crewed for Chris all weekend and Mark Nixon (FA) all season, >> > including > >> the Run-Offs. Scooter currently runs a Porsche 944 in ITE and PCA, but is >> looking for a fast and affordable open-wheel class. Scoots lurks on this >> list, so please lay the sales pitch on him thick! >> >> Shiny Side Up, >> Joe Palmer >> TX Novakar #56 >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "John Vriesinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 9:47 PM >> Subject: Re: [F500] Crew for School at Roebling Road?? >> >> >> >>>> Tx. Super School fell through for me because of bad road conditions. >>>> Making the drive from Louisiana proved too risky and I had to withdraw >>>> > at > >>>> the last minute. >>>> >>> I heard you folks got a bit of snow down there. Welcome to driving in >>> > the > >>> great white north. ;-) >>> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: [F500] Crew for School at Roebling Road?? > From: > "Joe Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:16:05 -0600 > To: > <[email protected]> > > To: > <[email protected]> > > > I think it's common at early school sessions for the instructors to > mark the breaking points, turn-ins, apexes, track-outs, etc. with > cones to help the students find their way around. Sometimes the cones > work all too well. To be fair, somebody else hit the cone first, > knocking it onto the track, but Chris did a great job with the rebound. > > Shiny Side Up, > Joe Palmer > TX Novakar #56 > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Schmidt" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 6:43 PM > Subject: Re: [F500] Crew for School at Roebling Road?? > > >> Joe, >> >> Why were there cones on the track ? The last time I put my car on a >> track >> that had cones I hit one. Caused lots of damage to the underside of >> my car >> and almost tipped my over. At that point, I vowed never to race on a >> track >> that had cones, and I'm sticking to it. >> >> Richard >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Joe Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 10:58 PM >> Subject: Re: [F500] Crew for School at Roebling Road?? >> >> >>> Yes . . . snow on Thursday and cold on Friday, but by Saturday it >>> was warm >>> again mid-day, in the 50's. Actually turned out to be a good racing >>> (School) weekend. Clear both day, just a little chilly. In fact, we >> never >>> even set-up the canopy. >>> >>> Please welcome Chris "Conehead" Hodde . . . the latest "Classmate" from >>> Texas. Conehead made and finished every session and was running a nice >> pace >>> and making clean, safe passes . . . save one incident with a cone! >>> >>> We hope to see Coney at the National races by year-end 2007 >>> >>> We also identified a solid new class prospect in Darryl "Scooter" >>> Reese, >> who >>> also crewed for Chris all weekend and Mark Nixon (FA) all season, >> including >>> the Run-Offs. Scooter currently runs a Porsche 944 in ITE and PCA, >>> but is >>> looking for a fast and affordable open-wheel class. Scoots lurks on >>> this >>> list, so please lay the sales pitch on him thick! >>> >>> Shiny Side Up, >>> Joe Palmer >>> TX Novakar #56 >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "John Vriesinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 9:47 PM >>> Subject: Re: [F500] Crew for School at Roebling Road?? >>> >>> >>> >> Tx. Super School fell through for me because of bad road conditions. >>> >> Making the drive from Louisiana proved too risky and I had to >>> withdraw >> at >>> >> the last minute. >>> > >>> > I heard you folks got a bit of snow down there. Welcome to driving in >> the >>> > great white north. ;-) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ________________________________ FormulaCar Magazine - A Proud Supporter of Formula 500 The Official Publication of Junior Formula Car Racing Subscribe Today! www.formulacarmag.com or 519-624-2003 _________________________________ _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! ***
