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We just got home from a rain soaked week at Infineon.

We had mostly dry practices on Thursday and Friday but on Saturday we were rained out. That meant all classes raced on Sunday.

We started our combined Ap & Bp run group with 23 entries. By our race time a light rain was causing the cars to throw rooster tails at many locations around the track. Half the field did not start the Sunday race in part because without rain tires many felt racing was too risky. There were only 12 cars on the grid but 5 were Tigers! John, Tom Sakai, Grant Lipsky, Gordon England and Lorraine Gruys.

John Morton ended up with the pole (in our SCF Tiger) using our standard dry tires. After the green flag flew, he was cautious going into the first turn and John made room for an aggressive Mustang. However that Mustang blew up 2 laps later and John retook the lead, keeping it to the checkered flag. All the Tigers finished the race.
 
Buck,

Thanks for the pics, great news a tiger win (despite a depleted field) with almost 1/2 the grid tigers a pitty we didnt see a few on the podium

In the second pic (middle one) is john getting a little sideways? Coming over the crest of a corner in the wet i can imagine it would be a handful.
 
Michael, You're correct. As he crested the hill he was drifting to our right. Every driver put on a great demonstration of car control.

On a different note, we had an engine problem. It had run fine in practice and we had not changed anything. But during the race it was popping and backfiring at partial throttle. (It was beyond embarrassing & I was looking for a place to hide.) However as the laps ticked by it ran better and better. We don't know if was moisture or heat related. John felt the plugs had fouled and slowly cleaned themselves. We'll investigate when we have more time (after Tigers United).
 
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