{"id":534,"date":"2017-03-22T11:44:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2017-03-22T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T18:44:40","slug":"2016-season-recap-part-4-the-hot-summer-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"2016 Season Recap- Part 4- The Hot Summer Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-519\" style=\"width: 3264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1615.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1615.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1615.jpg 3264w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1615-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1615-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_1615-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A box among the Bats. My newly refurbished 1800 Ti got its first track test at the Northwest Historic in Seattle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The mid part of our season consisted of races in Seattle and Portland, both events close to home.<\/p>\n<p>The Northwest Historic put on by SOVREN are always a fun event. This year was no exception.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend was especially fun in that I was able to track test my recently refurbished 1800 Ti. Terry Forland from Racecraft did a superb job of creating an homage to \u00a0proper mid-1960&#8217;s touring car. Here&#8217;s the short video I made of that test:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"First Test of the 1800 Ti\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vs9zIA7EadQ?start=42&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I had my trusty Koepchen 2002 at this event. The racing was very tight all weekend. I was in a large group of mixed production cars, sedans, and older sports racers. The\u00a0grid of the race was mixed up because there was a rain shower for qualifying and some of the faster cars chose to start at the back of the field. Take a look at the video from the event:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PNW Historics 2016- Highlights from Group 2\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uTEy_nmb9EY?start=211&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Portland Vintage Festival was the weekend following Seattle. I raced the 1800 Ti and my Chevron at this event.<\/p>\n<p>The Chevron and I were still coming to terms. I was getting a much better feel for the car, but still needed to work on downshifts. I had a fun race with a Lola in the feature:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Portland Vintage Festival 2016- Groups 5 &amp; 11 Feature Race\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1d186x9F9gs?start=198&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The race debut for the 1800 went really well. It ran flawlessly all weekend. I learned quite a bit about its idiosyncrasies and had a fun race with Steve Smith in his potent VW:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Portland Vintage Festival 2016- Groups 1&amp;3 Feature Race\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5YyzNlGliko?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mid part of our season consisted of races in Seattle and Portland, both events close to home. The Northwest Historic put on by SOVREN are always a fun event. This year was no exception. This weekend was especially fun in that I was able to track test my recently refurbished 1800 Ti. Terry Forland &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/?p=534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2016 Season Recap- Part 4- The Hot Summer Months<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7,11,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13","category-7","category-chevron","category-events","category-races"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}