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For rookies, on Friday night there is rookie orientation where they take you up the hill in a truck and review the different turns, things to pay attention too, dangerous bumps and other caveats, accident prone corners, etc...
Each race day, before the first run, there is a familiarization run where everybody goes up the hill at the same time at a sustained pace. That gives you a chance to review the hill conditions before the first run.
Originally Posted by froggy47
Do you get multiple runs?
Yes, between 2/3 runs in the morning and 2/3 runs in the afternoon. It depends on the hill, number of drivers and number of issues (car breaking down, accidents where we need the send the wrecker and/or ambulance), etc... On a very bad day, with a lot of crashes and breakdowns you might just get 3 runs.
Originally Posted by froggy47
Is Princess a hottie (looks like it).
Yes she is, that's why I married her
Originally Posted by froggy47
Are these private roads (I saw a ski lift)?
Originally Posted by froggy47
You are having way too much fun, us frogs know how to eh?
We sure do! Next stop, Burke VT next weekend. Need to get 1st place again to stay in the race for the championship!
I was working Polish Mountain Sunday, 3 August, station seven, a few weeks back. Tons of fun. Saw your runs, Opel, and it was good to see a couple of Vettes on course that day. Looked good.
A couple of conclusions about the sport: (i) You've got to be a little bit nuts. It's dangerous: no run off, the road is a little bit crowned, not flat like a race track, so the camber is not quite what you expect; the straights aren't quite straight. These are public roads, after all. not made for racing. (ii) I've really got to try it some day.
I ran PHA hill climbs for a number of years. I loved them. One of the cars I ran was this Mini
They're a lot like Solos except you're going faster and for a longer distance.
As for pre runs I never did them. Some folks would do them on Friday afternoon in a street car. I never did that because I never wanted to know how far down I would go if I left the road.
The ultimate Corvette was Kerry Hitt. He actually use an old Greenwood car with a huge engine. "The Hitt man is on the hill." You could hear that car all the way up the mountain.
I was working Polish Mountain Sunday, 3 August, station seven, a few weeks back. Tons of fun. Saw your runs, Opel, and it was good to see a couple of Vettes on course that day. Looked good.
A couple of conclusions about the sport: (i) You've got to be a little bit nuts. It's dangerous: no run off, the road is a little bit crowned, not flat like a race track, so the camber is not quite what you expect; the straights aren't quite straight. These are public roads, after all. not made for racing. (ii) I've really got to try it some day.
Jim
Jim, thanks for working the event with out you guys we would not be running.
But next year I expect to see you running the hill.
And if you do make sure you stop by and say hi.
I ran PHA hill climbs for a number of years. I loved them. One of the cars I ran was this Mini
They're a lot like Solos except you're going faster and for a longer distance.
As for pre runs I never did them. Some folks would do them on Friday afternoon in a street car. I never did that because I never wanted to know how far down I would go if I left the road.
The ultimate Corvette was Kerry Hitt. He actually use an old Greenwood car with a huge engine. "The Hitt man is on the hill." You could hear that car all the way up the mountain.
08-04-2014, 04:37 PM
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