Friday night at the track
We arrived at the facility 5ish
on a nice sunny Friday afternoon to setup the course
or the weekend's events. Volunteers to assist
me for course setup were Rick Watson and Jim
Forsythe along with Paul Wolters and Charles
Whitacker from CCT.
Many thanks to Henry (Cap) and
Marlyn for transporting the CTV trailer to and from
the facility this weekend.
We did watch the storm clouds
roll to the north of us ...then they took a sudden
turn to the south, headed straight for us - the
weather even mentioned there was a considerable
amount of circular motion in this storm including a
tornado warning for Mineral Wells
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...as we were getting ready to mark the
cones, all HAIL broke loose, shortly after the
sandstorm and high winds - we raced north from the track
for shelter at the mall.
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We headed back to the track after the
hail quit - to see how bad it was... it was still raining
lightly and there was a river running across the heliport
pad
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...surveying across the heliport, we could tell the course
was now all washed up
cones were not even close to
where we had set them up today
since it was still
raining, we decided to g into Mineral Wells and eat dinner |
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We headed back out one last time to
FIND and pick-up the cones... which became very difficult
with our headlights.
Many thanks to Don, Karyn, Sharon
& Glenda for helping me
...Doug
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The Autocrosses on
Saturday
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Jim met us at the track at 6am to get the course set back up
after the storm devastated it last evening
The course was setup was
a little over 8 10ths of a mile in length
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the competitors setup their shelter from the sun, checked
their Vettes and bs'd until time |
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the turn-out this year was less than last year's event
however, we didn't need bail-out money |
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Rick Garabedian (Event Coordinator) for
CTV and Paul Wolters (CCT) held the
combined drivers meeting for Saturday's BRCC and CCT
events
Mike Lanzara (BRCC Governor)
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Scott Wheeler was the starter for the
event |
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We thank CCT (Bradley's) offered the use of their motor
home for timing |
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The timing printer was located by the motor home with the
board located on the back side |
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Karyn & Sharon scheduled
the Corner Workers which included Cowtown and some CCT
workers |
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John & David with their CCP sign -
however, guys, you need to have YOUR Vette in the picture
to make the photo count for a point |
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Don wells (CTV President) handled cooking
hamburgers and hotdogs; he was assisted by Alaine,
Henry & Marlyn |
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Don & Cindy cleaning up someone's mess |
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NEXT TURN |
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Brazos
River Corvette Club
