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Good video. Let’s see the whole car. I have a 1971 Spitfire Mark IV race car with a 1296 cc engine. Loved watching this video but looked like the linkage was connected between the two carbs. Assuming SU, should you not disconnect them before final tuning? Then reconnect for final adjustments. please correct me if I am wrong.

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why such a low shift-point? seems tou just into the power band at 6 k

Just love it and smiling that you couldn't catch me in the beige 912 🤪

Brilliant - thanks for sharing

Nice race Mike, I thought you were going to over take the MG a few times.

Fantastic: I did that race in 2006 and 2007. Wish I could join you.

Very nicely done!

Awesome car man

What a great weekend! Ol #80 is always a fan favorite. Can't remember if AGT was racing this weekend as well. If so, Frank and I almost ran Paul Newman over leaving the paddocks. Great fun!

And how much horsepower does the car have

Very cool!

That much smoke is never good. You'll have the off-season to get it sorted hopefully.

No!!!! 😥

Ya, I think the Healey passed you under the yellow.

Thanks for the video. It was super cool. I felt like I was in the car.

Thanks for putting these up. It looks like great fun. The lighting was better than I expected, almost as good as daylight. Too bad Phil broke early, but it turned out that his brake problem saved his engine from major damage. A nut on a connecting rod bearing was backing off, far enough that oil pressure was mostly lost. And the oil pan got dented when it fell off the jack, the dent hitting the crank. Much easier to fix.

Wow, that's a crazy look, much like Dayton or Sebring at night I'm sure. Thanks Mike

It looks like you're adjusting the idle screws with the linkage still connected. If that's not correct, what are you actually adjusting?

Nice run Mike, you kept Jon behind you the whole time.

6 cylinder chasing down those V8 's .

Ouch! .....Mike, hope you didn't hit too hard. I had a similiar event at Road America when my steering box failed a few years back. Good luck on the repairs.

Mike - Thompson looks like a fun track, is it the same design as it was originally?

I work station 4. What were you pointing at on the sighting lap?

That could have been bad for both you and John. Nice reaction by you both. Dougie

Hi Robert, I'm uploading the two races today. The Sunday race starts off OK but I picked up some crap on the lens and the picture quality gets pretty bad. I did get the sandwich incident when I had two fast Blue cars pass me leaving the Esses. I saw you both coming, no problem, it was clean. mike

As HRG, I know we follow the GCR for safety gear (cages). We do not follow the GCR for car prep. Do we follow the GCR for driver behavior? By the GCR, fault is arguable. If this race were run under vintage rules, the fault is clearly the Miata's for not initiating and completing a safe pass. Clearly the Miata driver feels that driver behavior was governed by GCR and our race organizers seem to agree. Do we as a group feel otherwise? If so, we should have made it clear beforehand.

I guess the debate will rage on, but two SCCA stewards looked at it and agree with Paul. I will bear this in mind in the future. However, one reason I race HRG is to avoid the 10/10ths racing. Parts on these old cars are scarce.

Staying on the racing line is not an abrupt change to one's line. If the nose of a car trying to overtake hits the rear tire of the car on the line, that is an overly aggressive attempt at a pass. One thing to hold in mind about this particular race is that it is an historic series race where competitors are told, and the Miata drivers specifically, have have been warned that have been allowed to join in at the sufferance of the historic drivers, is to be respectful and no dive-bombing.

Sir, with respect, the GCR disagrees with you based on the video. And just so you know, you are talking about a 63 year old veteran driver with 30+ years of experience who was nationally licensed many years before the word Miata even existed. I can assure you he has no interest in barging anywhere. Let alone buying new fenders or worse.

Section 6.11.1 (C) of the SCCA GCR Drivers must respect the right of the other competitors to racing room. Abrupt changes in direction that impede or affect the path of another car attempting to overtake or pass may be interpreted as an effort to deprive a fellow competitor of the right to racing room.

Your point is partly correct, however the car being overtaken has the responsibility to give racing room which he did not. The Miata's line did not change while the Lotus' line drastically changed suddenly. The correct racing line is irrelevant especially since it hardly exists in a traffic situation. What is relevant is whatever line the cars were currently on. The Miata did not change his, but the Lotus did, and in way such to suggest he was not even vaguely aware of his surroundings.

racing line for the uphill is to track all the way out to the left and hit the apex of the corner on the right. The overtaking car has the responsibility to cleanly make the pass. If the overtaking car had their fender ahead of the passed car, the passed car should grant the line. This wasn't the case, the overtaking car wasn't next to the Lotus. The Mustangs were close to each other and gave each other racing room.

I've watched the lap 1 contact over and over again, IMHO the Miata made an overly aggressive move forcing his nose up the inside of the corner trying to force a path. It is the responsibility of the overtaking car to make sure that there is enough room to safely make a pass. Classic Miata racing, barge your way through and buy another aftermarket fender.

I'm a little thick apparently. Someone kindly explain to me how a drastic chopping maneuver at the apex has been construed as being the fault of the car that was chopped. This is lap one, folks. The whole field is two wide at this point. Where is the so called "stupid move"? The two mustangs entered the uphill in exactly the same configuration, yet I don't see the one on the left chopping the one on the right. The maroon mustang must have actually been aware of his surroundings I guess.

Hi Andre, you give me more skill than I really have. The pedal was to the metal, the engine was slow to rev. I'll be at Limerock for the next two weekends,I know the track well and how the car should behave there. After looking at the plugs, I may have gone too rich on the needles in the carb, I'm going to try some other profiles if my times are off. Between the two weekends, I'll have 13 on track sessions, plenty of time to experiment. mike

Mike you need to get the cap off the kill switch it's driving me nuts :) Good clean drive and way to ease that new motor into action. Your more patient then I.