HSCC Silverstone 9 & 10 May

[RickT]

Hi Guys

Dad and I will be there for the Derek Bell round with the blue Chevron B24, race number 5, say hi if any of you are passing.

Cheers
Richard Taylor

[Fay]

Originally Posted by delta

Crikey Fay I'm Evan more confused.

If you have any problems, come and see me on Sat or Sun morning. All will become clear!

[Fay]

Originally Posted by simon drabble

Are Guards and Flavien's race rolling starts? Weather looks like no rain all weekend with a small bit tomorrow lunch. Done my insuarance so now can relax and look forward to testing tomorrow!

GTSCC and Derek Bell Trophy are the only rolling starts for the weekend.

[banbury]

Originally Posted by Redlake27

I'm considering entering 70s roadsports later this year. I can only get to Silverstone on Saturday. Does anyone know if any 70s cars will be in the paddock Saturday PM (their practice is Sunday) for me to have a sniff around?

I`ll be there from lunchtime(Alfa Romeo #57) along with some of my friends.

Come and say hello.

[Fay]

I am not exactly overmanned for this meeting, so if any drivers fancy a day on the bank flagging please let me know.

Regards

Fay

[zefarelly]

any news ? ? ? ?

[PTRACER]

The timing went tits up during qualifying and I think someone in the Classic Racing Cars series was on pole with a 30-something second lap and an average speed of 260mph.

DBT was red flagged at some point, I think it was restarted, although I wasn't watching. Three or four cars got taken out in an incident on the first lap of the FF2000 race, I believe just going onto the International circuit.

I think there were more racing related personnel at the track than there were spectators, it was pretty deserted spectator wise.

[driftwood]

these events should be free to spectators then there would be more folk there watching wandering the paddock and spending some money in the shops etc
the dumb circuit owners do not realise this fact charge fortune to the clubs for races to be put on and want the gate money
they then employ 10 or so security men and get no income !!!

[esper]

Originally Posted by driftwood

these events should be free to spectators then there would be more folk there watching wandering the paddock and spending some money in the shops etc
the dumb circuit owners do not realise this fact charge fortune to the clubs for races to be put on and want the gate money
they then employ 10 or so security men and get no income !!!

Your are right , historic motorracing the only circus where the clowns pay, so why charge the spectators!!!

[grantp]

I wandered around most of the bits of the circuit that one can get to with the 'International' configuration.

If I assume that half the people in the spectator areas were connected with a team and likely entered on team tickets then there were probably a couple of hundred paying spectators. Difficult to judge really since the expanse of Silverstone and the way the structures are means you could lose a few hundred people quite easily.

Out of interest does anyone know how many people Silverstone attracted for the free Renault World Series event last year?

[Steven Humphrey]

Originally Posted by grantp

Out of interest does anyone know how many people Silverstone attracted for the free Renault World Series event last year?

According to the Renault Sport website there were 110,000 over the weekend. Silverstone does have a habit of swallowing people up though-there were 27,000 for FIA GT last weekend but the grandstands looked empty.

[zefarelly]

its probably as much to do wiith Silverstone just being a dull place!

[john ruston]

How did the Merlyn Sports Car race go?Simon D v AVK

[zefarelly]

AVK 9th Lord D 20th . . . THe ELy/Dodd E type looks damned quick to finish 6th overall

[john ruston]

What type of E Type was it,Real old or new?The first laps of last six hours were very interesting with some E types passing GT 40's on straight.Makes this old car racing very questionable although the car yesterday was/could have been real but you still ask the question.

[driftwood]

i am afraid many old cars are "questionable" these days

[john ruston]

Rule of thumb.
If the E Type lapped quicker than 1.38 it is very,very quick .

[james s]

Ely,Dodd qualified in 1:40.393.The results are total fiction.

[john ruston]

What do you mean by total fiction?

[james s]

The number of laps completed wrong, we think we did about 37.The live tv screens gave us 3rd place as did the comentator do the maths it does not work out.
If they can't do a one hour race what hope the 3 hours at snetterton.

[zefarelly]

mst website is sadly lacking in info and data so as has been suggested a timing issue is the problem. I'm sure it'll get confirmed one way or another as its all still done manually as well . . .it just doesn't get posted as quickly!

[john ruston]

What's this about E Types being checked yesterday with Papers and Scrutes.One example wider by 3" than any built in period.

[zefarelly]

Modsports has been making a comeback for several years now . . .

still no times or details on the web for today or yesterday respectively . . . .

[driftwood]

i do not think the hscc have paid the $$ to be on MST TSL site with the results
i have found the hscc website has them a day or so later

is there a wise owl out there that can enlighten me further on how it works im sure silver and palms do come into it

[PTRACER]

As I've said already, there was a timing issue at the track and some people were given laptimes of 30 seconds and an average speed of 260mph during qualifying. Others in the same race were given more realistic times, but they still came out much slower than they thought.