As Y’all be kind to those chocolate Bunny’s ears.
Yuhs Hear, especially you Max!
Yeah, know Y’all are probably distracted with
the arrival of Ye Easter Bunny, or should that be Beagle’ this Sunday. Although
it still seems odd to be celebrating Easter in march!
Therefore, I’m Arse-suming that my already
razor slim No Fenders traffic count will decrease even further? But not sure
how far it can go down from my three devoted readers, Eh?
Alas, I’ll point Yuhs towards another vintage
No Fenders yarn celebrating thee Easter Beagle’, as where are Yuhs Snoopy? With
the following No Fenders tome.
http://www.nofenders.net/2022/04/a-revheadz-easter-basket-full-o-treats.html
And for those of Y’all Jonesin’ for something
motorsports related. Here’s another story I’ve been letting percolate way too
long!
As the Racer article that caught my Attenzione was
a somewhat “Puff” piece about what Bill Riley’s up to, albeit being posted
Wayback’ on August 30, 2023. For which the exact title was: Riley keeps moving
forward on multiple Sports Car fronts.
As Riley’s wife says He’s pretty busy! With
Bill running the Riley racing “empire” that His father bob began, presumably continuing
with the three Sports Car teams He’s involved with.
With the LMP3 category going away in the IMSA
WeatherTech Sports Car Championship this season. The final LMP3 Champions
stepped up to the LMP2 category this year. Making waves when announcing that
2008 Formula 1 runner-up Felipe Massa would join Gar Robinson and company at this
year’s Rolex 24.
Although I’ve got
zero clue how they, or the majority of the field did at this years 24 Hours of
Daytona! Due to laying in a Hospotal bed for five days before hopefully being
released on January 28th…
Riley’s also involved in a partnership with
Kelly Moss Racing running a brace of Porsche 911 GT3 R’s in the GTD (Daytona)
class. The Nos. 91-92 specifically…
Whilst Arse-suming He’s continuing to field an
entry for George Kurtz and Colin Brown aboard a CrowdStrike Racing by Riley
Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo in the SRO’s GT World Challenge America series.
Where the duo won the Pro am category last year.
Whilst I had no idea that it was an Riley &
Scott chassis that the other TK’, aka Tommy Kendall devastated the Trans Am
field in during His championship winning years driving for Roush Racing in those
Nasty Ford Mustang Trans Am racecar! Or that apparently much of the SCCA Pro
Racing’s Trans Am field was comprised of Riley & Scott chassis…
As Tony Ave reportedly talked Bob Riley into
designing a new Trans Am chassis, known as the Riley TA1 for which Chris Dyson drove
to His third consecutive Trans Am National championship last year. Becoming
only the fifth driver in series history with three or more championships!
Joining the likes of the aforementioned Kendall, Paul Meatheadz’ Gentilozzi,
Scott Scooter’ Pruett and Ernie Francis Jr.
While the Riley & Scott Mk III Sports Car
Prototype chassis was the most successful Privateer “mount”, which I fondly
remember Dyson Racing using to great effect, including winning the 24 Hours of
Daytona with! Also somehow having forgotten that Riley ran the 2012-14 Viper
GT3 program.
But I was totally unaware until reading said
Racer article that Riley Technologies was now building continuation Ford GT40 Mk
IV’s, for which arse-sumedly the first cracecar’s now completed.
According to Bill, longtime Riley Technologies
customer Jim Mathews bought the former Ford “satellite” Kar-Kraft company.
Although actually Riley Technologies Inc. run by Bob & bill riley, along with
Mathews bought the assets of Kar-Kraft Wayback’ in August, 2020, for which I
definitely missed the memo!
Tooling, Fixtures, Jigs and technical drawings,
some with Bob Riley’s name upon them were sent to Riley’s shop in Moorsville,
NCAs I also didn’t know that Bob Riley had been involved upon the original Shelby
American Ford GT40 Mk IV racecar. With plans to build at least ten continuation
Mk IV’s, with the first having it’s delivery date delayed until 2023…
And thus, Y’all can “See” that Bill riley indeed is a very busy man! As I just hope none of His championship winning racecars roll over any Easter Eggs or Chocolate bunnies Ears!
