2015 ARRC Formula Ford Race on Toyos
Hot on the heels of our thread about running on Toyo treaded tires at the 2015 ARRC at Road Atlanta, and in the wake of the current discussion on this forum Lee Williams and I would like to formally announce the 2015 :trophy_silver:Kentledge Cup!:checkered:
Such has been the interest from our previous thread, the SCCA have been gracious enough to create a sub class within the ARRC Formula F race for all Kent powered Formula Fords running on the Toyo R888. It's a simple recipe - Ford power and longer life treaded tires.
The idea is to have a bit of fun at the end of the season, and make this a mini Formula Ford Festival. All Ford powered cars welcome, what ever the vintage. If we can get enough cars there will be prizes for pre-72, pre-85 and pre-90 cars, as well the overall winners name being immortalized forever in silver on the trophy itself!
If anyone else thinks this sounds like a good plan feel free to pm myself or Lee with your email address so we can keep an idea of potential winners of the inaugural Kentledge Cup!
It's worth mentioning again that this is not anti Honda or anti slick tires - just a group of like minded Formula Fordsters getting together for a thrash around Road Atlanta. :thumbsup:
Who's interested!?
http://www.apexspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65467
Def a change from the ARRC in years past...
I have not been to the ARRC for a lot of years, and it was always disappointing how few of FF's that were there....BUT this has all the appearance of really being big!!!
Select regions can probably host "warm up" events for tire testing, etc and help a bit on the gaining of momentum for this type of venue... four years away from the FF 50th!!!
Mike W
Great video - 1980 Road Atlanta Runoffs ...
Apologies...
- If this has been posted before, ...
- or if it's the wrong thread/forum.
On Facebook there is an interested page called Remembering the Original Road Atlanta. It's fun to see pictures from Pre-T10A days.
Here's a link I saw there and I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy it. I certainly did (and was cheering on the GoJo car). :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pURt...ature=youtu.be
ARRC Dates: 11/6 - 11/8/2015
The 2015 ARRC will be the weekend of 11/7/2015.
(An earlier SEDiv schedule had it listed a week earlier - 10/31).
ARRC schedule-2014 track time response
We weren't a featured group this year with 5 FFs and 1 CF but we had 2 quallies (20 and 15 minutes), a 10 minute warmup RIGHT BEFORE our race, and a 20 lap race.
ARRC schedule-2014 track time
It should be noted that FV had a championship race of some sort and they had another group they raced in, which was FV only (double the qual and race times). Not sure how the schedule will turn out with our group.
BTW, I think any event with more than 10 car to race against is worth quite a bit of travel time for me! An FF-only group would be even more enticing!