40+ Pictures and Commentary about R&G 2007

[petek]

I took a few pictures at the 2007 Run & Gun. OK, I really took nearly 600 pictures. Here are 54 pictures that I think give the flavor of Run & Gun and why I intend on returning every year!

Morning. My wife stayed back at the hotel and would be coming to the track later with Lisa, Dean's wife. Sharon (Clois' wife) and Kim (Dave's wife), however, were at the track already and getting everyone signed in and legal. The rest of us were pulling out cars out of our trailers or, if you sprung for the extra bucks for a garage spot, pulling the car cover off of your car.


Drivers' meeting. Each morning there was a driver's meeting to discuss things like what the heck would be going on that day. We each received a transponder which made timing the cars on the road course a breeze.


One of the things gone over in the drivers' meeting were the flags. Yellow = caution. Green = have fun. Black = stop having fun. And this flag means that there is a race going on and you are not in it.


Every car had to go through tech inspection. I had two things "wrong" with my car... I forgot to take my wife's ear plugs out of the side door pocket and I neglected to remove the fake spinners from my wheels. A late arrival to the track, a Ferrari P4 replica, gets the once-over in tech inspection.


There were all sorts of cars at R&G 2007. This was a high-bucks aluminum Cobra replica. Actually kind of hard to describe this car as a Cobra replica, perhaps a Cobra evolution?


There was a large group of Lotus 7 replicas. Some, like this one, had V6 engines. Some with V6's had supercharges too. This cars went like stink and handled like they were on rails. Great track cars!


Another high-buck evolved Cobra. I'm not a great fan of the evolved Cobra - but hey, each to their own!


Corvette GTP, fast; very fast. I think the driver of this car was a hired gun. The car (and driver) were amazing on the track. Smooth, fast, fun to watch. The car uses C4 mechanics including the transmission and differential (bolted together). The drive train is quite long! Somewhat roomy interior, I think I would fit. This car was one of the few black-flagged cars during the event. Early in the event the track folks noticed that at speed on the front stretch the front of the car was bottoming out and hitting the track. They black flagged the car to bring it in to let the driver know what was going on. The driver's commented that he noticed that the car had a bit of a shimmy on the front stretch!


Just a picture of some of the cars in the garage area.


Corvette Grandsport replica.


This car was a real hoot! Take the chassis and drive train from a Dragon (a Lister-like replica), remove the body and drop on a T-bucket looking body. Best of both worlds - Dragon for the sports car crowd, t-bucket for the main street cruise crowd!


My Cobra is about as "pure" street as you can get. All I have is a full-width roll bar and a fire extinguisher. This Cobra is at the other extreme and typifies the phrase "full race"!


Dean and his RCR GT40. Dean had a bit of trouble with the brakes on his GT40. Apparently a bit of rubber got into one of the lines and his brakes more-or-less went south at 120mph. He was able to get the car slowed down (he hadn't lost all of the brakes) and brought back in. Tony (a plumber by trade!) was able to find and fix the brake problem. During the whole thing Dean had to disconnect the accelerator cable - and lost the 10-24 screw that held the cable in place. In this picture Dean is trying a screw in the fitting to see if it will fit. Dean ended up taking out the accelerator pedal assembly in order to find a correct screw to hold the cable.


Getting ready to go out for some fun on the track...














The next few pictures are of action shots. Since I was in the "Street" group I wasn't able to take any action shots of the novice or street folks so my pictures are limited to the other groups.