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From: Mark (misc![]() |
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Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2020 12:56:12 -0700 (PDT) |
That's a great quote Doug! 😃 That's really cool that you had a couple national championships, no small feat! Mark Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> Date: 8/8/20 1:27 PM (GMT-07:00) To: 'Mark' <misc [at] 308systems.com> Cc: 'The FerrariList' <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com> Subject: RE: [Ferrari] Radical versus Stohr? Ah yesh – auto racing. In the 1970’s and early 80’s I was a big fish in a small pond – I drove a 912 Porsche. Did reasonably well garnering two national championships and a bunch of trivets. At about the same time I managed two Porsche teams – one a 914-6 and the other a Carrera RSR. Southern Calif – Riverside, Laguna, Willow Springs, Las Vegas. It was while managing those teams that I ran across Dan Marvin’s log book for his Formula Mondial. Dan had trailered from Griswold’s in Berkeley to Phoenix on Thursday. Unloaded and on the warm up lap (usually done at 7/8 speed – some warm up) he hit an oil slick from the car in front of him. He slew off the track and sheared the right side off his car to include wrecking the block of his new engine. At the bottom of his page outlining the damage he penned these immortal words: “This just goes to show you that racing is fun, cheap, and easy.” That was more than 40 years ago – easy to remember. Onward Doug
From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+dnt=dock.net [at] ferrarilist.com> On Behalf Of Mark
Thanks for the heads up Scottie, sure wish Dennis was still in the group to give some feedback...
And thanks for all the suggestions, I ran a quick ballpark internet performance and cost survey, with these rough results. Of course it has nothing to do with the handling of the vehicle with just the power to weight ratio and acquisition cost...
Vehicle: bhp/T/$
Ferrari308 134 $$$lots Miata 152. $15k Boxster 197. $35k Cayman 207. $50k Corvette C7 405. $65k Radical SR3 406. $25k
food for thought... Not quite sure where I'm headed but it seems like it'll be a fun time....
Mark
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-------- Original message -------- From: scott saidel <Scott_Saidel [at] Hotmail.com> Date: 8/8/20 6:25 AM (GMT-07:00) To: Mark <misc [at] 308systems.com> Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Radical versus Stohr?
I agree about the cheap car. For straight up fun, Miata. Easy to own, cheap to repair and the SPECMiata class SCCA has a giant schedule and always plenty of competition.
Something bad happened to Dennis in the Radical. Don’t remember if it was failure or crash, but the car was smashed. Dennis was bruised but otherwise fine. Until then, everything Dennis had posted about the car was praise.
Scottie
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Re: Radical versus Stohr? scott saidel, August 8 2020
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- Re: Radical versus Stohr? Mark, August 8 2020
- Re: Radical versus Stohr? Douglas Anderson, August 8 2020
- Re: Radical versus Stohr? Mark, August 8 2020
- Re: Radical versus Stohr? scott saidel, August 8 2020
- Re: Radical versus Stohr? Douglas Anderson, August 8 2020
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