Members Meeting

[Gerard C]

Originally Posted by Mike Crow

Was free though….

+ 1.

[E.B]

Originally Posted by Mike Crow

Was free though….

And much appreciated.

[Aysedasi]

Perhaps not having watched much coverage before (my bad....) meant that I wasn't signed up to the Pye Fan Club. I thought that the racing was marvelous and I was perfectly happy with the commentary. Yes, there were a few errors that even I picked up, but as I'm not a historic 'buff' my enjoyment of the event wasn't affected. The Pye thing is a bit like when RLM dropped Ian Titchmarsh from their commentary team - I considered it (and still consider it today) absolute sacrilege.

[John Elwin]

The highlight of the weekend for me was Riccardo Patrese in the Brabham BT52 what a car & so much more appealing than the modern junk. If only they could have persuaded Nelson Piquet into his old car too, and with Herbie Blash overseeing them, what more could you want?

Ironically for me, I was job-hunting at the beginning of 1982 & Brabham was one place I contacted. By reply, I got a two-line reply from Bernie telling me to call a certain number & much to my amazement when I called a voice answered with "Ecclestone 'ere".

Anyway I went down to see him & he genuinely tried to create a job, bringing together various Buying operations. He and the factory manager eventually concluded there was three-quarters of a job, but reckoned Herbie could do with some help with team admin. He was away at the time testing in South Africa so would I call back in a couple of weeks? Unfortunately when the time came he said he didn't need help, but they told me to call every month or so in case the situation changed.

Even more ironically, I moved house a couple of years later & started to drink at the King's Head, Shepperton - where I drank many a pint with Herbie. Never did tell him he did me out of a job though...

[Peter Mallett]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Burnett reports some issues with the rear dampers but they all look very happy. Enjoyable.

In one shot as they went through Madgewick, you could see the rear left wheel oscilating.

[Gerard C]

I cant even imagine what it takes to maintain and drive those machines. They are gladiators, a lot of respect for them.

[BertMk2]

I went to Goodwood on Saturday, fist time at the members meeting for me - have to say there was some great racing and unsurprisingly some great machinery. The Hill/Huff tussle was great as was the scrap for the lead in the SF Edge race, lots of great side by side racing in the other races too. The highlight for me though was the GT1 demo - those cars running as the sun set was a glorious sight and sound, they may not have been racing but they weren't hanging around.

A few photos:

[coppice]

Terrific weekend - I enjoyed every second and returned home tired , happy and broke. Alice Powell was a breath of fresh air - Marcus is a walking Wikipedia , brilliant for an entirely enthusiast audience but can wear his learning heavily for less specialised ears. I winced at hearing Turn One but so what , she's young , very competent and I am not too traumatised . But I was when her colleague talked about bloody 'Brands' of car on the grid. Eek.

[GregUK]

Originally Posted by E.B

I was more worried for the Marshal who was caught out by the car being righted gently as the driver was still inside, as was squatted down as the car came down and looked like he got his bent knee under the car as it finally came down. Made me wince just seeing it. The ambulance was there but the driver was long out of the car totally unharmed, but someone was in the ambulance.

Fingers crossed he was not injured and it looked worse than it was..

Bruised but no broken bones. Phew!

[john ruston]

Originally Posted by E.B

Shows in the entry list as entered and driven by M.Birch. The only car shown as entered by JR was the Alta. That of course does not necessarily answer the question

Thought I would answer the various questions
The Talbot 105 JJ93 driven by Michael ***** is owned by him . I have owned the car on six occasions since 1988!Sold it to Michael about six years ago Up to that point he used to race one of my Talbots!
He is part of our Talbot team is about to start racing and rallying the works car GO 52. He won a historic pre war car rally week before Goodwood so it’s the ultimate all round car.
Gareth in the Alta had major damper problems that came apparent on Saturday caused by bumpy tack but too late to do anything before race . Idea was to annoy Richard Bradley in Aston for a few laps before it came undrivable and that’s what happened. Richard confirmed how leary it looked when following Alta. Be back to normal for the race around a smooth Donington next week!

[The Fat Clerk]

Originally Posted by Mike Crow

I thought the commentators pretty ignorant about the cars all round and rather irritating. They invented some novel pronunciations too. But all that faded into insignificance after they called Madgwick “Turn 1”! Sacrilege. Fire them all! Bring back Marcus please..

It might be just as simple as down to cost.
Unlike the Marshals, Clerks, Stewards etc the Commentators like the Scrutineers are paid to be there.

[E.B]

Originally Posted by john ruston

Thought I would answer the various questions
The Talbot 105 JJ93 driven by Michael ***** is owned by him . I have owned the car on six occasions since 1988!Sold it to Michael about six years ago Up to that point he used to race one of my Talbots!
He is part of our Talbot team is about to start racing and rallying the works car GO 52. He won a historic pre war car rally week before Goodwood so it’s the ultimate all round car.
Gareth in the Alta had major damper problems that came apparent on Saturday caused by bumpy tack but too late to do anything before race . Idea was to annoy Richard Bradley in Aston for a few laps before it came undrivable and that’s what happened. Richard confirmed how leary it looked when following Alta. Be back to normal for the race around a smooth Donington next week!

Thanks John for the confirmations and facts behind my entry list backed thoughts.
I must confess to a new found / rekindled interest in cars like Alta and Talbots thanks to your involvement plus of course the photos of these cars and others from the much missed Bauble.

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by GregUK

Bruised but no broken bones. Phew!

I'm glad to read that; I must admit that I more than winced when I watched the VW coming down, and appearing to take him under.

[Peter Mallett]

Originally Posted by E.B

Thanks John for the confirmations and facts behind my entry list backed thoughts.
I must confess to a new found / rekindled interest in cars like Alta and Talbots thanks to your involvement plus of course the photos of these cars and others from the much missed Bauble.

Yes it is good learn more about these cars. Still like Bentleys though.

[Gerard C]

Bentleys'image here belong to Le Mans history. Strange enough, the Blowers are often pictured when none won the great race. Popular imagery I suppose.

[Peter H]

Good to see a proper GT40 win a race

[john ruston]

Originally Posted by Peter H

Good to see a proper GT40 win a race

Miracle!
It’s in our Le Mans Team

[john ruston]

Originally Posted by Peter H

Good to see a proper GT40 win a race

Miracle
It’s in our Le Mans Team

[john ruston]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

Yes it is good learn more about these cars. Still like Bentleys though.

Peter, you will learn in time!
Try driving a Bentley against a Talbot!

[Peter Mallett]

Originally Posted by john ruston

Peter, you will learn in time!
Try driving a Bentley against a Talbot!