The article below.....brought back some memories.

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In the final race for the championship, Horst Kwech driving an Alfa Romero, was in 2nd place behind John Morton
on the last lap, going into the corkscrew at laguna Seca. Kwech booted the Datsun in the butt and knocked him off
course to take the win.


During the inspection following the race, officials found the Alfa Romero had an illegal, oversize gas tank
and that was why the Alfa had skipped a pit stop.......without making a pit stop, those cars were nose to tail......
and that speaks well for John Morton's driving ability.
Horst Kewch had already escaped from the track with the trophy. John Morton won the championship anyway.
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50 years later during a demonstration run at a vintage car race at the same track, using the totally restored original cars, the
Alfa was in the lead this time.


John Morton drove into the back of the Alfa Romeo in the same last turn, with his foot on the gas,
and put the Alfa into the weeds.
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At first I felt a little bad about such a historic, fully restored Datsun 510 being crash damaged.
Then I realized that the Nissan/Datsun company had plenty of Japanese craftsmen who probably
were standing in line to work on such a famous car.


And If I were John Morton, and knowing there was an army of Japanese craftsmen fully capable
of making the car like new again, I would have pushed that Alfa into the weeds with my foot on the floor,
just like John Morton did.


My 510 Datsun was not painted like this, but I won 5 Florida State Autocross Championships.
-Bob