Monterey Historics 2007

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Got that new rubber on yet Dave....

Here's Dave having more fun than the law allows:




And the view Dave hopes most will see of him on raceday....


Here's some of the Can-Am competition:

[David Pozzi]

The Sunoco car had an interesting thing happen last year at Road America. The car ahead of him had a piston failure, pieces of the rings flew out the tail pipe and punctured the inlet screen on the scoop of the Sunoco car! The engine swallowed the pieces and he couldn't run the main race there. 2200 miles one way tow and couldn't run.

Oh, the car ahead kept going, - and ran the main race on 7 cylinders.
David

[David Pozzi]

Here is a similar photo of me back when I was first racing the Lola.
Man does time fly! I think this was in the early 80's.

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Here is a similar photo of me back when I was first racing the Lola.
Man does time fly! I think this was in the early 80's.

Hey Dave...who's that guy in your car?

[Damn True]

Well, Kathy and I were going to go this morning, but last night I checked the website to see if there were any restrictions on where one could enter if you needed to buy tickets at the gate.

Well the ticket price this year went up to $55. Sorry, but that is just too much IMO. I don't know who puts that thing on, but they just priced me out.

The really wierd thing is that honestly, Sears Pt. is a far better venue for spectators. But clearly, spectators are not the 1st concern.

[David Pozzi]

The gate price was $85 for Saturday!
Advance price was $65 for Saturday, didn't hear what Sunday was but $55 seems right. There are stores and gas stations in Salinas that sell tickets on race day with advanced pricing. You allways pay more at the gate.

What happens is, the charity's sell the tickets in line at the gate, the extra markup goes to them to fund their projects. They also direct parking and such and get a donation from the track for it.

I got my photo taken with Bobby Unser, got on the pit wall for the Celebrity race and eavesdropped on Parnelli Jones telling the guy pitted next to me about beating John Surtees passing both Chaparrals and winning his heat race at Laguna in his Lola T-70.

I broke a ring and pinion in morning warmups, no time to fix it before my race, so I missed it. I had a good time though and ran well the weekend before the "Pre-Historics"

I finally got my LM1 O2 sensor to work, it was over heating before. I also got some data from the Racepak system too look over. My car hit a G spike of 1.74g in the corkscrew! I'm thinking of Magnifluxing my axles now.. ;)
David

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Sorry you missed the race Dave but sounds like you had a blast anyway.

Yeah...me and my buddies who flew in/drove in from all parts...drive over to the event Saturday all packed and ready to go (we drive what seems like 30 minutes in the backwoods of the old Ft. Ord) and our jaws just dropped when they told us $85...especially when all the ticket prices in print as late as Friday...all said $45/day.

Dissapointed was an understatement and I think SCRAMP and the Monterey Herald will both be getting a very scathing letter.I can see a $10-$15 overcharge for the day-of-event sale...but $40 more..PER? No freaking way...

GREAT wknd otherwise,sorry we missed you guys...tell Mary I have her CD.

[David Pozzi]

John,
If you have it in print that low, I'd send it to SCRAMP, they need to know what the public thinks of their mistake on this.

[Damn True]

I will be doing the same. My wife and I elected not to go due to the prices. We would have come at the advance price, and bought food/drink at the track while there. Instead, we spent zero dollars with them.

[David Pozzi]

Here's a nice photo of me pulling onto the track:

[Damn True]

That is just too bitchin David.

I might just have to build one of the T-70 replicas someday.

At the top of the Can-Am game with the big-block McLarens, 917s and such were the Can-Am cars even close to F1 cars at the time?

[David Pozzi]

Yes, comparing lap times on the same circuit, the Can-Am cars were faster than F1 cars.

[Damn True]

David,
Is there any source of that info in a consolidated format that I'd have access to? I would love to see some of the differentials.

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Here's a nice photo of me pulling onto the track:

Looking good Dave...always nice to be on fresh rubber,huh?

I have the Friday guide to the races (or was it in Thursday Herald?) which clearly states $45/day...it mentions nothing about those being advanced prices and that gate prices would be higher.

I'm willing to bet that Damn True & I weren't the only ones who were dissapointed...

[David Pozzi]

David,
Is there any source of that info in a consolidated format that I'd have access to? I would love to see some of the differentials.

You could actually download the Racepak software for free, then load the complete data "run" file I have. http://www.msdignition.com/G2Xtreme/downloads.html
Download the top file "Datalink II" and play with the sample files.

Or I have speed and lateral G data printed out that I could post here as a graph.

[Damn True]

It would be great to see your data here. Actually though I was asking if there might be a book or net resource by which one might be able to see time records for F1 vs. Can-Am lap times from the late-60s early-70s.

[David Pozzi]

I think the only place F1 and Can-Am raced was in Canada or Riverside CA.
Check here for info on race wins, perhaps they have qualifying lap times, then compare to common courses.
http://wspr-racing.com/wspr/results/results.html

[David Pozzi]

Here's a link to Mary's photos of the Historics. The races will be on Speed Channel Aug 30th.
http://www.zenfolio.com/marypozzi/p1017023399/

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Tell Mary great photo's Dave...love you guys in front of the garages..can you say BIG TIME?

[David Pozzi]

It was cool to act like the PRO racers. The hard part was unloading all the gear from the trailer then moving it all back!

Someone left me a nice hand pencil drawing of my car too.
I had a good talk with Peter Bryant, the designer of the successful Shadow Can-Am cars. A brilliant guy and very funny, he likes to tell jokes.
David