• Registered: 2010-05-15
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Topic: Video of the Italian flag Alfa spinning in Turn 10 at Thunderhill

Sorry I can't remember the team name.. I was even spotting for our team (Prickstine) with one of their guys, and I STILL forgot the name.

I spent about 15-20 mins chasing the Eyesore Miata at the end of the race.  Passed 'em at least once, but then got re-passed straight away.  They got by the Alfa and I was then behind the Alfa for about a lap before I pressured the driver going into Turn 10, and... this happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trQx8D4Ae68

Awesome race, everyone!

- reid

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  • Registered: 2009-04-30
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Re: Video of the Italian flag Alfa spinning in Turn 10 at Thunderhill

That Alfa was ahead of us in the rankings at the end of day one. Not sure what happened to them.

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Re: Video of the Italian flag Alfa spinning in Turn 10 at Thunderhill

The Afla was doing great until they broke their transaxle Sunday afternoon. They swapped out the whole tranaxle in amazing time - I think it took about 40 minutes.

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Re: Video of the Italian flag Alfa spinning in Turn 10 at Thunderhill

Those Alfa rear mounted transaxles are easy to pull out. You don't even have to pull the transaxle to replace the clutch. Now that's some Italian engineering for ya!

  • Registered: 2010-03-20
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Re: Video of the Italian flag Alfa spinning in Turn 10 at Thunderhill

The trouble is, if you want to replace the rear brakes on one, you have to pull the whole trans-axle (I think). I'm glad none of my Alfas require that.

Will

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1959 Alfa Giuletta 101.02 Sprint (huge project) 1969 Alfa 105.51 GTV (daily driver, now dead)
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