ttweed wrote:pecivil wrote:I will never forget when a softball sized chuck of pavement was thrown from car in front of me and it literally bounced off the roof of the Lotus and left a large ding. My 1st and last DE at qualcomm.
You should have seen the racing surface at Holtville before we stopped running there (around the turn of the century). The chunks were football sized. They didn't call it "Joltville" for nothing.
TT
I recently read through a 1971 edition of road and track, or car and driver.
Even then they we talking about the bad surface of holtville.
They were also taking about the upcoming mid-engine corvette!
in 1971!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!