rfn026

I was up at Sebring yesterday for the HSR event. The car count seemed to be down a little from the previous years, but there were still a bunch of neat cars. (Can we get a government bailout for Vintage Racing?)

I dumped several hundred photos on my Picasa site. The have no captions and they're not well organized but I thought you might still enjoy them.

Richard Newton
Autocross Performance Handbook

super89

Awesome photos! Thanks for sharing!

73-84 IMSA Widebody

Great photos...absolutely the coolest cars

Locke

I heard it was a fun weekend. One of my friends helped put together a new car from the Riggins shop. It was a full tube frame car with Falcon bodywork. A real head turner!
I do find it kinda distrubing that HSR now allows a brand new tube frame chassis to be built to modern Grand Am GT specs and as long as you put an older body on it, it's a vintage racer. On the plus side, the new cars are much safer than running around in 30+ year old race cars.
I guess, like most businesses, they have to offer what sells. They went head to head with competitors that required a vintage pedigree and found lots of customers who wanted to race something different.
I'm jealous and wish I could be there!

Happy Holidays to everyone on the forum from the North Florida Corvette Association down here in sunny Jacksonville, Florida!

Locke

KBlanke

That falcon was paddocked kind of across from us, it made a neat looking car. It certainly was motoring around the track.

rfn026

I just loved that Falcon. It was incredible.

HSR has always been the wild west of vintage racing. It's a "Run what you brung - and hope you brung enough" event.

Just down from the Falcon was an Audi R8 that ran at LeMans in 1999 (I think). That's a long ways from old MGs and Corvette Sting Rays.

Richard Newton

bosco022

The Falcon is owned by Bill Ridell, who also owns one of Tommy Riggins' old IMSA Buick Somerset Regals. Bill sometime races the Buick with us at V8 StockCar races and it is still very-very fast. I heard the Falcon cut a quick 2:10 fast lap this weekend on the 12 hour course. Not bad for the first time out.

KBlanke

Looks like his fast lap was a 2:06:903 according to the timing and scoring sheets. He was fast, but some of those roush cars turned 2:03's.

Locke

If I get the right six numbers in the FL Lottery tomorrow night, maybe Tommy would build me a '60 Vette on that chassis!
Red of course.

Dreaming is such fun...........
Locke