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Yes it was a massively hot day, several people had tyres explode at speed, we also had fuel vapourisation , in our case for the first 3hrs it stopped fuel draining from our extra fuel tank filling up the main fuel tank with a pressure air lock in the balance pipe and cut our range between fuel stops as ambient went down the problem went away , by the time I did my first stint getting in the car about 9.00pm all was fine I did a double length run and left the car in 14th position overall.
The cluch went about 5 in the morning Bill was driving following the pace car it jammed the ring gear stalled the engine could not be restarted because friction material jammed the starter pinion , the car was stranded out at the Esses.
If we could have got the car back we could have put in a new clutch in under an hour and we did have one, but it was not to be so we were out.
Yes not impressed with that caption anyway I was interviewed by Anglia TV and that went out at 6.00pm on Friday evening.
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