Greatest Driving& Riding Moments
Bob
mx at snet.net
Sat Jan 20 08:12:26 EST 2001
Would love to see the pics! I have a couple of me in the lotus too,
unfortunately it wasnt head to head, but it was 210+ mph... Someone should put
a page together! (no, that wasnt the sound of someone volunteering!!) ;-)
Bob
"Eric Fletcher S.O.C." wrote:
> > I think mine was Screaming down the track in Senna's Lotus F1 car in
> > Montreal. :)
>
> Mine was in the Camel Lights car at at the Daytona 24 hour race. Geoff
> Brabham in the Nissan on the high grove at 210mph passing me, Me in the #2
> Groove at 190mph passing Dorsey Schroder who is doing 170 and is passing
> Steve DeBrecht who is doing 150. Mark Webber shot a great picture of the 4
> of us side by side in the middle of the turn on the high bank.
>
> Next best Moment was 6 hours later next to Brabham again and Having the
> Right Cylinder head depart for the engine and take the engine cover and 60%
> of my downforce with it... All at 190mph. Made for a very busy moment
> trying not to clobber The Nissan, stay off the wall and get the car off the
> track without oiling it down too much! Again I have a great set of photos of
> the engine cover coming off the car and the HUGE ball of fire. In One photo
> you can see the cyl head about 70 feet ABOVE the car.
>
> Eric Fletcher
> '00 S4tt
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