Friends of Triumph Website

The Friends of Triumph (FOT) are dedicated to preserving the racing heritage of the Triumph marque. Campaigning these automobiles on the track is at the essence of our purpose. Hopefully the photos and descriptions that follow will bear testimony to that end.... a dynamic display of power and agility.

The Friends of Triumph's membership hale from all parts of the world and includes current and previous Triumph race car drivers.

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Announcing the 2009 FOT Feature Event

The Columbia River Classic Road Race at Portland International Raceways, Sept 5 - 7, 2009 will be our 2009 Feature Event. We have a website to post news of the event, pictures of the cars that will be attending, etc. You'll be able to post pictures of your car(s) and bios about both your car and yourself. It's a simple form based system. It would be great to have your pics whether you are racing or driving your triumph or TR-powered car to the event. Gather up some good pics of your car.

The site is at http://www.crclassic.com

The CRC shares that date and venue with the All British Field Meet, which is one of the largest confabulations of brit cars in the Northwest. It winds up being a pleasantly crowded event, with british cars everywhere, a vendor row and an autojumble. Besides three solid days of racing, and a test and tune day put on by the Lotus club on Sept 4 for the seriously track crazy, there will be a tremendous amount of stuff to see and do.

It's also a very full racing slate, you'll have more track time than you know what to do with. We've been promised a special Triumph race if we have a good turnout. I don't think we'll have much problem getting that, this is a very special event.

I'm also working on a full-on autocross event. There will be some fine parties, and you should start putting together your vintage outfits.

Start planning folks, this is going to be fun. You east coasters-- grease up that trailer ball and let's roll. As John (Bluto) Blukarski said, "when everything is going to hell there's only one thing to do: Roadtrip!"

More about the Kastner Cup here: http://www.kaskastner.com/kastnercup.html

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The 2008 FOT Feature Event was

Triumphs at the Glen

Click here to read all about it

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Kas Kastner recently finished his third book! You can buy them them from his website, www.kaskastner.com. These are a must have for anyone interested in Triumph racing scene, past or present. More information on our Kas Pages.

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New crankshafts

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Racing is what the FOT is about,

these images say it all.

You can see this and more on the historical page photos.

Ken Richardson and Mike Rothschild in Dallas

1988 at the TR National event.

Polaroid photo by Hanne, Mikes wife. From the look of these cowboys faces they are seriously happy.

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Kas Kastner and Lew Spencer at Pomona in '59. Click the picture for the whole story.

The TR250K behind a few characters at Sebring in 1968.

Short Sebring Story from R. "Kas" Kastner

When building the cars for the 1963 attack at Sebring, I had 31 gal fuel tanks made up and then installed them in the trunks of the cars. At the first filling I found that they were oversize by almost 1½ gals. No time to take out and change etc etc.....soooooooo, I bought a bunch of plastic 8 ounce bottles, screwed the lids on tight and dumped them into the tank until the proper volume was found. Went through tech inspection easy and right on the money. Later on we found that the gasoline had melted the plastic and I was back to the original size. Good thing they never checked them after the event. Amazingly none of the drivers noticed the knocking around in the tank when on low fuel. I heard it instantly but " whatchagoingtodo". We went three hours with each car before refueling. ( could have made it without the extra but ......) Finished the event 1,2,4.