<html><P>Scott Trunkhill:</P>
<P> Just made it back from a great weekend of autocrossing in St <BR>Augustine. Temperatures around 70 and mostly sunny both days. Two <BR>days of fast racing. Grassroots Motor Sports magazine came by on <BR>Saturday to take some photos. Hopefully in the near future they will <BR>run some of them in the magazine.<BR><BR>As you can see from the photos I took an of course excursion and <BR>picked up a little mud. I did manage to win first in IS-5.<BR><BR>I have posted some photos on my WEb site <A class=m1 href="http://corvair.us/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0066cc>http://corvair.us</FONT></A><BR></P>
<P>Padgett Peterson:</P>
<P> Drove up to St. Augustine for the SECC autocross and had a great time. <BR>Beautiful weather (what we Floridians put up with summer for). Two <BR>different surfaces - one area a large skid pad and each day just had one <BR>hook so easy to trap the unwary.<BR><BR>Second day was even higher speed with a "top o'third" three cone <BR>slalom on <BR>the front straight and a similar three gate array on the back with about a <BR>block of straight leading to each. On the backside I had to keep repeating <BR>to myself "Don't lift until nose is in the first gate". Is hard <BR>sometimes.<BR><BR>The "club car" concept is really a great one for all levels of <BR>experience. <BR>Norm and Bob have done most of the work on the car including a fast fuel <BR>filter change with blow out of the fuel line on Sunday. With many drivers <BR>and a host of people taking fun runs, solid and reliable is the way to go. <BR>Definitely shows that a good 110 can stay with the 140s and any Corvair <BR>with trombones is going to make music.<BR><BR></P>
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<P>Chuck Armer:</P>
<P>It was just another beautiful sunny day in the oldest US city. The <BR>bright blue sky was mixed with an<BR>occasional puffy white cloud and the combo was perfect for <BR>"FastEddie" Meadows 2nd variation to his<BR>outstanding autocross setup at yet another exciting SECC racing <BR>event. FE had set up a course which<BR>was about 7/10 of a mile and had only 5 turns (curves) in the whole <BR>course........read fast into that mind<BR>picture you have. The Georgia connection was well represented as we <BR>had added Ray Paul and Al Hilderbrand<BR>to the mix. Ray and Al have their Corvairs prepared for dragrace <BR>activities but had decided to support SECC<BR>and in the process both had a great time and very decent times on <BR>both Saturday and Sunday. Ray had the<BR>fastest time of the weekend for the Georgia racers with an <BR>outstanding 49+ second run on his very last run.<BR>Now mind you this is with an automatic, lightened, LM convertible <BR>with skinny tires up front. Way to go Ray!<BR>I, FrontMan, had a 51+second run in WTBRT but couldn't quite catch <BR>him. "MudFlap" was sooooooo shook up<BR>after his swamp buggy soiree that added at least 10 lbs of Florida <BR>Goo to #112, that he couldn't get below a 52+ for the<BR>heat. Al's times were in the mid fifties and this was quite good as <BR>he was running on street tires and he is also<BR>setup to dragrace not autocross. The FTD of the day was 45 or 46 <BR>seconds by a 2005 WRX Subaru AWD turbo.<BR>He beat Joe Dunlap by less than a second. Joe was driving his LM <BR>coupe with the sweet engine that Dave Clemens<BR>had built for Joe. Now, when you hear that, Ray Paul's run is even <BR>more meaningful. "MudFlaps" aka Scott Trunkhill<BR>aka "BeefJr" bested the FrontMan for the TWO day aggregate score by a <BR><BR>total of 112.38 to 113.76. WTBRT #112<BR>has now run 333 runs without any mechanical failures and we are <BR>really spoiled. Anyone who has watched FM and BeefJr drive knows that <BR>we do not baby the Beef car. We only do the normal things you should <BR>do before racing. I am pleased about what this little Corvair has <BR>accomplished, how Scott has evolved as a competent driver and how <BR>much fun racing a Corvair on a limited<BR>budget is and will continue to be in the future exploits of the <BR>"Where's The Beef Racing Team".<BR><BR><BR>Chuck Armer dba<BR>FrontMan<BR>WTBRT PR<BR>#112 / 333 and counting<BR><BR><BR></P></html>