Well… It is a hit new year and we are going to kick things off with a really cool trip up to Laguna Seca in a couple of weeks.
To commemorate the up coming event, I found these really cool old photos from 1979 Laguna Seca Raceway IMSA race HERE… He has a lot of great photos, so check them out…
The bottom picture shows Jim’s poor BMW looking quite damaged… I asked him and this is what he said;
I was coming down the hill going 150 miles per hour, when all of a sudden my right hand, holding the shifter was sucked into the car, luckily I let go…
I looked back behind me to see my entire engine (minus the cylinder head), crank shaft, and transmission still connected rolling in a wake of oil and fuel… A rod had blown out so hard that things went shockingly wrong…
Danny Ongais, Peter Gregg and others trailing him luckily and surprsingly dodged the rogue engine and transmission and no one got hurt…
That picture is of Jim getting towed back to the pits. Wow.
The two Radical SR8’s will be coming to Laguna, can’t wait to see them in action!
