David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
11/7/24 11:34 a.m.

We test there often, but it’s not ours. 

Is it yours?

The note from the Florida International Rally & Motorsport Park and, sorry, no photo:

A trailer with an Expired 2021 Illinois License Plate 113739TE has been left @FIRM email managmenet@gorally.com if this is your trailer.

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
11/7/24 11:45 a.m.

Also, I copied and pasted the above note.

I’m thinking the correct e-mail is management@gorally.com.

Colin Wood
Colin Wood Associate Editor
11/7/24 11:50 a.m.

I just imagine someone reading this, running outside and panicking as their race car is just sitting behind their towing truck sans-trailer.

Mr_Asa
Mr_Asa MegaDork
11/7/24 12:08 p.m.

Only thing that makes any sense is that there was an accident?

Expired 2021 plates, though.  Did someone dump the trailer?

David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
11/7/24 12:16 p.m.

In reply to Colin Wood :

Or someone could be thinking, Hey, free trailer!

Streetwiseguy
Streetwiseguy MegaDork
11/7/24 4:18 p.m.

Stolen and dumped is my first thought.

Second thought-Berkeley motor racing.  They will never find the car in the pond, and the trailer can just sit there until it rots away to nothing.

codrus (Forum Supporter)
codrus (Forum Supporter) UltimaDork
11/7/24 6:43 p.m.
Streetwiseguy said:

Stolen and dumped is my first thought.

Seems like a lot of effort to haul a stolen trailer all the way to a race track just to dump it.  Surely there was an empty parking lot closer than that?

My guess would be either someone had a problem and couldn't take the trailer with them (such as a mechanical problem on the trailer, or a personal emergency that required leaving directly from the hotel without the opportunity to go pick up the trailer), or someone who has another event there next week and decided it was easier to ask forgiveness than permission about whether or not he could just leave the trailer there until that event.

 

ClearWaterMS
ClearWaterMS HalfDork
11/8/24 8:53 a.m.
Streetwiseguy said:

Stolen and dumped is my first thought.

Second thought-Berkeley motor racing.  They will never find the car in the pond, and the trailer can just sit there until it rots away to nothing.

unlike golf clubs you can't break a car over your knee after a bad shot...

Colin Wood
Colin Wood Associate Editor
11/8/24 8:58 a.m.

In reply to ClearWaterMS :

Hasn't stopped me from trying.

(Current score: Car - 1, Me - 0)

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