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  1. 308 GTB

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    Thank-you! :)

    In 1996, the car spun coming out of The Downhill and did a "soft roll" onto its roof in the grass without hitting the Armco in this general area...


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    The car had to be repaired quickly to be in its next Challenge Series race. Two years ago, the roof was cracking very badly and I had to get that fixed. The body shop found Bondo as thick as one inch in some areas!

    The only remnant today is the driver's side mirror which sags a bit.
     
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    I love meeting up with fellow owners and shooting the cars. Should be more good stuff this year.

    Robb
     
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    I hope you make it out here this year, Robb. You've got to see Watkins Glen!

    Here are a couple of photos Robb took of two other F355 Challenge cars at Lime Rock Park that day...


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    I wish I had my onboard video camera on during the session I was behind Robb who was a passenger in a Fiat 500 Abarth as we were going down No Name Straight.

    I'll let Robb tell the story. :)
     
  7. Robb

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    I caught a ride with one of the 5 racing abarth fiat 500’s later that day after lots of photography of the Ferrari’s and a few other marques. These 500’s are lightweight and flingable cars.

    the driver was warming up the tires on the first outlap and was very aggressive on the back and forth to get some heat in.

    I think it was lap two or three and all the cars were going for it. The Fiats were mixed in with other Ferrari’s.

    the driver was putting a lot of g’s on the car through big bend and the other right handers. We made it up no name straight and hit the brakes and turn... the right rear wheel sheered off at the spokes... the car swapped ends and I was staring at the cars coming up behind right at us. A little Days of Thunder moment. Things happened a bit in slow motion. The rear wheel that had sheered off and bounced passed my passenger door and on behind me as the car was still flying backward toward the guardrail Sparks flying from the spindle now cutting a groove in the track...

    I waited for the impact but we got lucky and the car stopped alongside the guardrail a couple feet away. All the other cars managed to avoid us and the session was red flagged.

    we made it back to the pit unscathed. The driver spent time talking to John Tirrell the master mechanic and legend from Boston who built all the racing fiats along with other Ferrari’s at the track. You may remember his pro drive 550 race car clone or his many other challenge cars. He had never seen a wheel with lugs still attached fracture at the spokes.

    it appeared to be a manufacturing defect.

    so I called it a day after that one and decided to get a head start on my image processing of Barry and the other drivers.

    it was a good learning experience.

    Robb
     
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    I love David Noth’s Hilfiger Challenge. It looks great alongside Barry’s.

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  9. 308 GTB

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    It's always in slow motion, Robb. That's how our brains operate in those situations.

    Here's the groove you made in the track...


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    I saw it lap after lap the rest of the day...


     
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    Barry, you were much faster than that BB.

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