[DeTomaso] Big Bend Open Road Race Report

[David Bell]

OK, a quick BBORR results summary.  The 'Overall' finish is vs the complete
field of 140 cars over the entire 118 mile course (two legs of 59 miles).

Michael Frazier and Jim Cooper, 72 Pantera       -->   3rd Overall, 1st in
100 MPH Class, 0.004- mph (0.176+ sec) off target speed
Carter Boyer and George Cabaza, 95 Cobra-R    -->   4th Overall, 1st in 110
MPH Class, 0.005+ mph (0.168- sec) off target speed
Steve Hawkins and Fred Foreman, 72 Pantera    -->  15th Overall, 6th in 110
MPH Class, 0.014+ mph (0.476- sec) off target speed
John Taphorn and Bob Taphorn, 73 Pantera        -->  31st Overall, 6th in
100 MPH Class, 0.029- mph (1.253+ sec) off target speed
David Bell and Kathyn Bell, 72 Pantera              -->  35th Overall, 2nd
in 105 MPH Class, 0.037+ mph (1.438- sec) off target speed

You can see that Steve Hawkins & Fred Foreman (110 MPH) and John & Bob
Taphorn (100 MPH) had terrific times but ended up in unbelievably
competitive classes (both Steve/Fred and JT trophied at BBORR last year).
In fact, the first three finishers in 110 MPH ended up in a technical tie at
0.005 mph off the target speed.  Carter Boyer won the class based on his
time being 0.006 seconds closer to a perfect score than the next best time.
Can you imagine winning a 118 mile race by 0.006 seconds?  I did a quick
calculation and figured that Carter's winning margin at 110 MPH was slightly
less than one foot.  Incredible!

These ORR regulars are very, very good.  My personal lesson for the day is
to never run in the same speed class as Michael or Carter as they're going
to automatically reduce the number of available trophies by one each.

Many thanks to Michael Frazier for taking the time to tutor the rest of us
poor pedal-to-the-metal clutzes on how to be competitive.


Dave Bell


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Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 4:20 PM
To: Larry - Ohio Time Corp.; David_Bell at oxy.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Big Bend Open Road Race Report


David/Michael,

  Again, a BIG CONGRAT'S!!!
  What were the final speed/time results for each of our guys AND kate?!

  MD

"Larry - Ohio Time Corp." <larry at ohiotimecorp.com> wrote:
  Team Pantera you have made us all very proud.

Job well done!

Larry - Cleveland


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Subject: [DeTomaso] Big Bend Open Road Race Report


> Actually, we had two 1st place finishes and a 2nd place finish (in
> 105MPH) from the Pantera team. My 12 year old navigator Kate is still
> bubbling about the totally cool trophy she got for being in a 'REAL race
> in a REAL race car' (I'd quibble about the real race car part though).
> I hope somebody got a video of her doing the little spontaneous victory
> dance at the awards ceremony.
>
> Also, there were supposedly some moon shots on course to go with the
> bare breasts. I had my head down I guess and didn't notice anything but
> pavement and stopwatches on either race leg. The bare breasts might
> have been OK, but the mooning was apparently provided by some bubbas
> that needed a wax job. I'm not too disappointed I missed that part.
>
> Dave & Kate Bell
>
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Just got back in from Ft. Stockton TEXAS. We had 4 Panteras and 1
> Cobra-R on Team Pantera/ Gruppo Rompiculi Corsa this year. 1st place in
> 100mph, 1st place in 110mph, and 3rd place in 105MPH. Outstanding!!! We
> had perfect weather, parties, free beer, bare breasts on the course...
> just about a perfect event. More later, I'm tired.
>
> Michael
>
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