30 Apr 2012, 21:12 (Ref:3067646)
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 54
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Guinness2702
Bumper cars at Thruxton 3 years ago. Post 4. Darren Turner came out of the pit lane on the way to the grid, and promptly put it into the armco opposite me, having gone probably a little over 100 yards. Broken steering*. Also, in the next race, he made the start, bujt then put it in at post 2 on the first lap.
* EDIT - to clarify, that was the result, not the cause as far as I know.
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Forgot about that one, I must have been on post with you! Of course that was in the pre-drought era when the ability to swim to your post wasn't a necessary qualification to be a marshal at Thruxton!
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