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Four Speeds & Drum Brakes Tom Tate Race Car Drivers Wear Helmets With the 356 Registry Holiday in the rear view mirror it was time to get back to the track in a vintage Porsche. The SVRA event at Watkins Glen in September is always a big draw with plenty of practice, a qualifying race, a feature race and an endurance race. In the middle of all that racing is a huge party in town where the roads are closed and over 100 racecars are allowed to do a couple of laps of the old 6.6 mile course. We rip through town with thousands of fans on both sides cheering, great fun. While we can get up some real speed on the closed roads, we have to promise not to pass anyone. With the narrow back roads peaked in the center I can’t imagine trying to get around someone that doesn’t want to be passed. Those drivers must have been a lot braver that I am. Most of the Skirmants cars had passenger seats bolted into them this year so that more folks could play. With five cars on the track, we had drivers from Australia, Kentucky, Michigan and Boston. The SVRA event at Watkins Glen is always a big draw with plenty of practice, a qualifying race, a feature race and an endurance race. My co-driver, Rob, couldn’t make the trip this year from Arizona after flying the entire family to Boston for the 356 Holiday, so I was on my own. With plenty of track time on a course I first drove in the ‘70s, I was really looking forward to a good weekend. Driving out from Boston is always fun. There’s no airport security, lots of room for gear and while the Mass Pike is a bit of a bore, the back roads in upstate New York are a real hoot. The Audi RS4 looks like something your grandfather would drive (that’s right I am one) but with over 400 hp hiding under the hood it can walk away from anyone, I just love to surprise folks. Practice and qualifying went well as I re-learned the track shift points at Thursday practice. Once you know what gear you should be in at each point on the course you can spend the rest of the time just driving. That actually means concentrating on brake points and how much speed to knock off before diving into the turn. It’s all about finding that limit without exceeding it. More about that later. The qualifying race went well on Friday but the real highlight was the run into town and the two laps that we did on the old course with the crowd cheering. I had an Aussie with me and we swapped over after a lap so that he could get the flavor of the 6.6-mile course of the old days. Boy, those trees were close to the road. Racing darkness back to the track at full song was a real challenge, but everyone got back safely. The endurance race on Saturday had been shortened to only an hour so a fuel stop wouldn’t be needed. That made it a little easier, so the mandatory five-minute stop was just to rest. My pit stop came up a little sooner that I expected. I got a good start and put a couple of cars behind me that I had chased during the qualifying race but there were two 914-6s from the same team that were tough to get around. I could see after a few laps that they were slower in the uphill esses and the bus stop, two of my favorite places, but faster on the straights. I dove inside the trailing car at the bus stop and came out right on the rear bumper of the leader. As we went down the hill leading to the left before the toe of the boot, I took the middle of the track as he went to the right. I knew that I couldn’t pass there but I figured that if I was pretending that I could that he might make a mistake and go wide, and I’d get him. Didn’t happen. He turned in early to block me, something I would’ve done, and I had to turn even harder to prevent our fenders from meeting. I missed him but the rear of my Tub started to come around and I had to get busy “dirt tracking” down the hill. I really thought that I’d caught it until I realized that the nose of the car was pointed directly at the guardrail and I was about to exit the pavement tail first. I put “both feet in,” as I teach my students, and the car stopped rotating but I was still pointed at the “blue bushes” (read guard rail) and moving at a very high rate of speed. As the distance narrowed between the car and the wall I thought I’d made it but that was not to be. When I ran out of track and slid over the grass my speed didn’t drop as I thought it would, so contact was definitely on the schedule. As teenagers always say after their first accident, “it all happened so fast.” The nose of the car scraped along the railing for about two car lengths and as it slowed the front wheels that continued on page 43 N O R E A S T E R page 9
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