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Corvette Victory
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Corvette Victory
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There were 7 Old Vettes racing last week in 5 events including practice & qualifying. That’s 60 laps of Corvettes racing on the 1.5 mile road racing track. As usual Jim Glass of Kingston, NY brought his 1965 Red convertible & was parked with several other vintage race Corvettes in the grassy paddock near the driving school. I call that Corvette corner, because that’s where the Corvettes always have their set up. Regretfully Jim had engine problems in the 2nd practice & retired rather than risk engine damage.
Also racing: 63 Black coupe (originally FI) #631 driven by Doug Hatch, 1964 Blue Convertible #7 driven by Tony Carpanzano, 66 Navy convertible #4 driven by Bill Bogner, 67 Red convertible #20 driven by Al DeBonis. Can you believe it: every year mid year on the track racing: 63, 64, 65, 66, 67! I don’t even remember that from mid to late 60’s when I attended Watkins Glen & Bridgehampton & these old girls were just new.
Joe Foglia in a Navy 1969 coupe with L88 motivation also had some mechanical problem, but he left the track early, so I did not get to meet him. I’ve known Jim Glass for near 30 years and he introduced me to another Corvette racer, Mark Ferrara. We hit it off great & Mark had the hot shoe in the final race. His 1970 convertible 355 ci won against some pretty stiff competition to take home the trophy. If you know Limerock, the 3 Donovan prepared Silver XKE’s are supposedly ex factory race models (?) and those racers are A type competitive as was the Red Pantera racer, but a few of them spun, slid on the track. Mark was fast last year & this year he brought home his Red, White & Blue 1970 Corvette in first.
In the last race, the #61 Donovan jag went from last (dnf the previous race) to 2nd or 3rd. But their Red hash marks were dripping. They were in shock & awe as were all the 911’s. A lowly Corvette beats all those expensive exotic superior foreign imports & wins at the LimeRock! I loved every minute of it. More info at my blog.
Congratulations Mark.
There were 7 Old Vettes racing last week in 5 events including practice & qualifying. That’s 60 laps of Corvettes racing on the 1.5 mile road racing track. As usual Jim Glass of Kingston, NY brought his 1965 Red convertible & was parked with several other vintage race Corvettes in the grassy paddock near the driving school. I call that Corvette corner, because that’s where the Corvettes always have their set up. Regretfully Jim had engine problems in the 2nd practice & retired rather than risk engine damage.
Also racing: 63 Black coupe (originally FI) #631 driven by Doug Hatch, 1964 Blue Convertible #7 driven by Tony Carpanzano, 66 Navy convertible #4 driven by Bill Bogner, 67 Red convertible #20 driven by Al DeBonis. Can you believe it: every year mid year on the track racing: 63, 64, 65, 66, 67! I don’t even remember that from mid to late 60’s when I attended Watkins Glen & Bridgehampton & these old girls were just new.
Joe Foglia in a Navy 1969 coupe with L88 motivation also had some mechanical problem, but he left the track early, so I did not get to meet him. I’ve known Jim Glass for near 30 years and he introduced me to another Corvette racer, Mark Ferrara. We hit it off great & Mark had the hot shoe in the final race. His 1970 convertible 355 ci won against some pretty stiff competition to take home the trophy. If you know Limerock, the 3 Donovan prepared Silver XKE’s are supposedly ex factory race models (?) and those racers are A type competitive as was the Red Pantera racer, but a few of them spun, slid on the track. Mark was fast last year & this year he brought home his Red, White & Blue 1970 Corvette in first.
In the last race, the #61 Donovan jag went from last (dnf the previous race) to 2nd or 3rd. But their Red hash marks were dripping. They were in shock & awe as were all the 911’s. A lowly Corvette beats all those expensive exotic superior foreign imports & wins at the LimeRock! I loved every minute of it. More info at my blog.
Congratulations Mark.
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Wow! what a group of gorgeous cars. Panteras, 911's, xke's? And a C3 beating all of them? On the race track, being flogged, being driven....wonder if Mark's is numbers matching? That's right, it doesn't matter, because it's being used as God and Zora intended.
Cheers,
Russ
Cheers,
Russ
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