2006 FALL JEFFERSON DASH

“you can’t always get what you want”

The 2006 Fall Jefferson Dash was a combination of good and bad. Good in that drivers were offered a total of six timed runs over the course of the two day event with no serious incidents; bad in that three of the four runs on Saturday were in the rain, and time and circumstance limited the timed runs on Sunday to only two…

Seventy drivers competing in thirty-seven classes set ten class records during the event in which there were some delays but no major mishaps, despite the rain.

Those who arrived on Friday were subjected to a steady, often heavy, rainfall, which continued through the night and into Saturday afternoon. The rain stopped by mid-afternoon on Saturday, and a rapidly drying track allowed for some “hot” laps during the fourth and final run of the day.

The party Saturday night was a combination of good eats, good drinks, and good friends sharing a common hope that tomorrow would be a better day.

Sunday dawned clear and dry with every promise of a great day, but, as they say, the best laid plans o’ mice and men “gang aft aglay,” and, as I said earlier, time constraints and circumstances conspired to limit the competitors to only two timed runs.

Still, the officials and especially the workers are to be commended for their steadfast efforts to keep the event moving forward despite often adverse conditions.

The following drivers set new class records: in SSB in a Miata, Gene Brown at 66.951; in ITA, Mike Ancas in a Neon at 61.302; in ITE in an Audi S4, Todd Sprinkle at 55.656; in ASP, Glenn Musselman in a Corvette at 58.603; in GT1 in a Mustang GT, Chris BeLieu at 58.338; in ST MOD2, Scott Breneman in a GMC Typhoon at 63.621; in Fford, Dave Cutchins at 54.831 in a Euroswift; in CSR in a Fritzler FT03 at 53.907, Bryan Fritzler; in DSR, Bob Gardner in a Stohr Wf1 at 50.272; and in SPEC2, Brian Kraus in a RX-Midget at 59.281.

FTD was set by Darryl Danko in a Lola at 49.514.

What follows are some observations on happenings at the track… Alvey Ford celebrated his 74^th birthday by winning his class; John Pitman made Sue Salsburg a pallet on the floor of his motor home; Todd Sprinkle beat Bill Miller in Bill’s potent Audi S4- it’s not good to beat the owner; Grace Huntzinger’s cat, Sinbad, seemed none the worse for wear; this driver’s shift linkage came apart in the middle of a run, leaving me with third gear only; Butch King may have some competition in Scott Breneman’s Typhoon; Thor Pitman was 1^st in FV on Saturday…then came Sunday and the Maloneys; John Stinsmen’s CSR dropped some fluid through the esses- as if it wasn’t slippery enough; and the Blacks beat up on each other in Spec Miata.

The next and final event of the series is the Weatherly Hillclimb; see you on the hill!

Joe Foering, #37