Geoff Coenen
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There were 7 Old Vettes racing last week in 5 events including practice & qualifying. That’s 60 laps of Corvettes racing on the 1.5 mile road racing track. As usual Jim Glass of Kingston, NY brought his 1965 Red convertible & was parked with several other vintage race Corvettes in the grassy paddock near the driving school. I call that Corvette corner, because that’s where the Corvettes always have their set up. Regretfully Jim had engine problems in the 2nd practice & retired rather than risk engine damage.
Also racing: 63 Black coupe (originally FI) #631 driven by Doug Hatch, 1964 Blue Convertible #7 driven by Tony Carpanzano, 66 Navy convertible #4 driven by Bill Bogner, 67 Red convertible #20 driven by Al DeBonis. Can you believe it: every year mid year on the track racing: 63, 64, 65, 66, 67! I don’t even remember that from mid to late 60’s when I attended Watkins Glen & Bridgehampton & these old girls were just new.
Joe Foglia in a Navy 1969 coupe with L88 motivation also had some mechanical problem, but he left the track early, so I did not get to meet him. I’ve known Jim Glass for near 30 years and he introduced me to another Corvette racer, Mark Ferrara. We hit it off great & Mark had the hot shoe in the final race. His 1970 convertible 355 ci won against some pretty stiff competition to take home the trophy. If you know Limerock, the 3 Donovan prepared Silver XKE’s are supposedly ex factory race models (?) and those racers are A type competitive as was the Red Pantera racer, but a few of them spun, slid on the track. Mark was fast last year & this year he brought home his Red, White & Blue 1970 Corvette in first.
In the last race, the #61 Donovan jag went from last (dnf the previous race) to 2nd or 3rd. But their Red hash marks were dripping.
They were in shock & awe as were all the 911’s. A lowly Corvette beats all those expensive exotic superior foreign imports & wins at the LimeRock! I loved every minute of it.
Congratulations Mark.
Blog Story = http://www.oosoez.com/curr-evnt/currentevents-154.html
There were 7 Old Vettes racing last week in 5 events including practice & qualifying. That’s 60 laps of Corvettes racing on the 1.5 mile road racing track. As usual Jim Glass of Kingston, NY brought his 1965 Red convertible & was parked with several other vintage race Corvettes in the grassy paddock near the driving school. I call that Corvette corner, because that’s where the Corvettes always have their set up. Regretfully Jim had engine problems in the 2nd practice & retired rather than risk engine damage.
Also racing: 63 Black coupe (originally FI) #631 driven by Doug Hatch, 1964 Blue Convertible #7 driven by Tony Carpanzano, 66 Navy convertible #4 driven by Bill Bogner, 67 Red convertible #20 driven by Al DeBonis. Can you believe it: every year mid year on the track racing: 63, 64, 65, 66, 67! I don’t even remember that from mid to late 60’s when I attended Watkins Glen & Bridgehampton & these old girls were just new.
Joe Foglia in a Navy 1969 coupe with L88 motivation also had some mechanical problem, but he left the track early, so I did not get to meet him. I’ve known Jim Glass for near 30 years and he introduced me to another Corvette racer, Mark Ferrara. We hit it off great & Mark had the hot shoe in the final race. His 1970 convertible 355 ci won against some pretty stiff competition to take home the trophy. If you know Limerock, the 3 Donovan prepared Silver XKE’s are supposedly ex factory race models (?) and those racers are A type competitive as was the Red Pantera racer, but a few of them spun, slid on the track. Mark was fast last year & this year he brought home his Red, White & Blue 1970 Corvette in first.
In the last race, the #61 Donovan jag went from last (dnf the previous race) to 2nd or 3rd. But their Red hash marks were dripping.
They were in shock & awe as were all the 911’s. A lowly Corvette beats all those expensive exotic superior foreign imports & wins at the LimeRock! I loved every minute of it. Congratulations Mark.
Blog Story = http://www.oosoez.com/curr-evnt/currentevents-154.html
