Hey, just found it: From when I last saw Chris.
Photograph by Paul Wojtal Facebook
The scene was The Mitty. I can’t remember how many years ago. A bunch. This was back when the magazine was very involved with the event.
[HSR The Mitty: What you need to know]
We were riding a golf cart through the infield going somewhere to do something, when this dude ran up to us: I love your mag! I love your mag!
He handed me a CD from his band. Injected.
Chris and I fast became friends. We did a story about his GTI over on Grassroots Motorsports. He’s met my brother and our college friends.
Photograph by Paul Wojtal
This weekend, he’s making his Mitty debut–as a driver. He even made HSR’s press release:
Chris Wojtal has attended The Mitty for decades but this weekend fulfills a personal dream of competing in the blockbuster event after just celebrating his 50th birthday earlier this month. Wojtal’s debut also marks the return of a notable car that first put a winning mark on Road Atlanta at the SCCA Runoffs just a couple of years after The Mitty debuted in the mid-1970s.
Wojtal owns and makes his debut in a 1966 MG Midget (pictured at top) that Mike Pinney drove to the 1978 G Production SCCA National Championship at Road Atlanta. The car later had multiple owners but was never campaigned regularly or modified for bigger classes after the 1978 national title. Wojtal runs his first races in the car this weekend in Run Group 2 and the Sasco Sports International/American Challenge Group B sprint.
“This car brings together everything great about The HSR Mitty, MG, the Runoffs and Road Atlanta,” Wojtal said. “I have been coming to The Mitty for decades and this is finally a bucket-list moment realized.”
Hey, just found it: From when I last saw Chris.
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