NitroWars wrote:SpuffSpuff ran a Mustang in Modified "Midnight Warrior" in '79.......
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In all, not many then! Interesting thread though....Phil Elson?
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Mike Hall in Shutdown? or did he run something previously
MotorPsycho wrote:Mike Hall in Shutdown? or did he run something previouslyyes he ran "Invader" in '73
MotorPsycho wrote:Mike Hall in Shutdown? or did he run something previously
Alky car
cunningplan wrote:Chris Andrews drove and crashed his fathers 50s Ford? firstHe also (wisely) did the full monty at Frank Hawley's ending up with a TMFC licence, having accrued impressive times and speeds on the way. This explains why onlookers were completely blown away with him looking so good on his TF licensing runs at the Pod.
Incidentally, (off-topic, I know) Chris was running at Piteå several years back, driving one of the Söderquist stable cars. As he was preparing for his run and was approaching stage, he was alarmed to discover his brakes had failed or were all but completely ineffective. There is a huge run-off area there and Chris thought about this and then calmly decided to stage it on the clutch and proceed with his run anyway! A 5.30ish at 280ish mph was the result and his mercifully-efficient parachutes brought him safely to a halt with plenty of track to spare. Mental!
Again, off-topic, but possibly interesting; several senior track-side photographers (particularly Swedish supremo Stefan Bowman) who were lucky enough to be photographing in the spectator lane at the Main Event in 2005, have been dining out on the photographic 7 course dinner that Chris 'served up' when the throttle stops on his Fueler either fell off, or failed in some other dramatic way. When Chris mashed the throttle pedal to make his burnout, the now un-restricted fuel motor zapped up to a zillion revs, threw the towel in and boomered most impressively. See http://tinyurl.com/y9xt3jl
Picture courtesy of and thanks to DRO Staff photographer Ivan Sansom