The story behind the story
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Originally Posted by
Michael Rand
...First, someone do the research and come up with the last time a Crossle 30F ran at the Runoffs.
The 30F does have a National Championship title in it's history, Dennis Firestone in 1976 beating the Zink duo of Tim Evans and Dave Weitzenhof. A further 5 30F competed. The chassis wars were well on in those days with 7 makes represented.
By the way, this 1976 FF National Championship race was run in wet conditions, very wet conditions. 30F love the rain, even then they did.........
Here is the story behind the story...
Tim Evans and I are still, every time we see each other, beating ourselves up about the finish of that race. Tim and I had a several-second lead over Dennis, coming out of turn 7 onto the straight on the last lap. I was ahead. Back then, Tim and I never blocked. So, I tried to slow down enough that Tim would be forced to pass me too early and I could then draft by him going down the hill and take the win. He wouldn't bite, we forgot about Dennis, and we went so slow that Dennis got a big run on us. By the time we realized that, he had zoomed by, we couldn't catch him, and he won the race.