Well THAT was a surprise...

[Tim the Grey]

I was at WHT today, with minime, and number 2 son, and what turned up in the
BRDC Secretarys Challenge, but the Rollcentre Pescarolo Judd.
Anyway, just to keep things 'racy', they put a pitstop in, halfway trough a 15 lapper on the Silverstone NATIONAL circuit.
Despite young Hall's charge, they finished several seconds adrift of Ollie Bryant's Jade Mk2. Mr.Hall was rewarded with a lap time of 51.45, just over 115MPH average.

Piccy to come, soon...

Anyway? What' it doing here? Shouldn't it be in Brazil?

[Marcel ten Caat]

Honest answer...yes it should have been there. But as you know some teams decided it was not worth going to Brazil.

Mr. Hall himself will be there though...in a car that's quicker than that Rollcentre one.

[Tim the Grey]

They were shuffling the old Pesca today at a respectable pace...

Martin Short started, then handed over to Stuart...

[AstonGeoff]

Originally Posted by Stranger

Honest answer...yes it should have been there. But as you know some teams decided it was not worth going to Brazil.

Errr, more like couldn't afford to go. With the minimal package being offered by the organisers, and with most of the teams sponsors being European based the reason the rest of the field didn't go is cos they didn't have the budget for it.

BTW, they were about 30 seconds adrift at the end according to my watch, having made up the best part of 5 seconds on the last lap! So had it been 20 laps it might have been a lot closer, still at least they got an extra 3 laps as originally it was going to be only 12 laps. Quality of the field was better this year as last year Shortie turned up with the Radical SR9 and pulled into the pits at the end of the pace car lap (yup rolling start) and gave everyone 2 laps headstart and still lapped upto 2nd place!

Yes the Creation might be quicker but it's not as reliable as the Pesca/Judd package now is it!

[Hammerdown]

Exactly. Quicker if they can figure out a setup! Hopefully with two pros on board at Inter that might speed the process up. Here's hoping.

[pirenzo]

In a way it's nice to see this kind of thing. OK so they're not going to Brazil, but at least they're turning up somewhere in the world for a bit of fun - for themselves and the crowd!


BTW, I don't think 51.45 is actually that quick for this car, but I might be wrong. If it were a serious race you'd expect them to match or be closer to A1GP pace (47.809 at the September 18/19th test)

[minimangler]

I agree; 51.45 seemed a bit slow to me, too. They just looked slower than they would normally be around the track. But there wasn't a whole lot of prep...

[pirenzo]

And probably no need to be quicker

[minimangler]

They didn't seem to mind...

Martin Short walked into the garage brandishing qualifying times and someone excitedly asked "so how did we do!?!"

Martin replied "2nd!!", cheery as you like.

Nice to see ya, Martin!

[minimangler]

Originally Posted by Tim the Grey

I was at WHT today, with minime

I'm starting to regret my choice of screenname...

[Zytek_Fan]

I hope Rollcentre can do better next year. Always liked them

[AstonGeoff]

Originally Posted by minimangler

They didn't seem to mind...

Martin Short walked into the garage brandishing qualifying times and someone excitedly asked "so how did we do!?!"

Martin replied "2nd!!", cheery as you like.

Nice to see ya, Martin!

He likes to have a bit of fun outside of LM and the LMS, thats why he does the Silverstone 24hrs and Sec's Challenge!

They only got 10 mins or so practice in the morning and the traction control wasn't working.... Hence Shortie spun at Becketts on his out lap, and guess what, so did Stu !! That put a smile on Shorties face too!

[Tim the Grey]

The fun is seeing folks double take when they meet us...
Seeing as you are a foot taller!

[Bob Riebe]

Originally Posted by Tim the Grey

I was at WHT today, with minime, and number 2 son, and what turned up in the
BRDC Secretarys Challenge, but the Rollcentre Pescarolo Judd.
Anyway, just to keep things 'racy', they put a pitstop in, halfway trough a 15 lapper on the Silverstone NATIONAL circuit.
Despite young Hall's charge, they finished several seconds adrift of Ollie Bryant's Jade Mk2. Mr.Hall was rewarded with a lap time of 51.45, just over 115MPH average.

Piccy to come, soon...

Anyway? What' it doing here? Shouldn't it be in Brazil?

This is rather interesting; explain to someone several thousand miles away, just what is the race exactly?

It sounds like in the UK you still have some club type races that are "special", at least to some.

Bob

[Tim the Grey]

The British Racing Drivers Club is invitation only, you cannot 'buy' your way in.
This race was for various well known National or International racers both past and present.
We had 60s Camaro and Mustang, Can Am McLaren M1B and March 717, MGB, Ray Mallock driving one of his Dad's Clubman cars, and Martin Short brought the Pescarolo for a run... The Ginetta G50 was driven by one Laurence Tomlinson, who runs the LNT Panoz team.
Yes, a clubby race, but not your average clubby race!

[minimangler]

It was won by a Jade "pseudo prototype" (similar to a radical type thing).

[cmk]

Originally Posted by minimangler

It was won by a Jade "pseudo prototype" (similar to a radical type thing).

I dunno what is 'pesudo' about a CN prototype, dude. I'm pretty sure it is as real a sports prototype as a Pesca or a Radical SR9 or whatnot! Especially with the likes of Darren Manning appearing in them at the VdeV Magny-Cours 6hrs a week or so ago...

[Tim the Grey]

This sort of Jade?
http://www.jademotorsport.com/index.html

[minimangler]

Indeed, that sort of Jade.

[AU N EGL]

Great Pics there Tim.

[minimangler]

Originally Posted by AU N EGL

Great Pics there Tim.

Isn't the colour of the Ginetta fantastic (failed to avoid sounding like lawrence lewellyn bowen there... )