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22 Sep 2017, 08:27 (Ref:3769234)
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This is a damp qualifying from 2004 
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Balls of steel (knob of butter) They're Asking For Larkins. ( Proper beer) not you're Eurofizz crap. Hace más calor en España. Me han conocido a hablar un montón cojones! Send any cheques and cash to PO box 1 Lagos Nigeria Africa !
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22 Sep 2017, 09:01 (Ref:3769235)
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#167
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RAM Cobra! GTD40! At least they were more honest about their replicas then!!!
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That's Barry's race, and replicas have always been a part of it..... 
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22 Sep 2017, 09:26 (Ref:3769237)
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Originally Posted by Gerard C
Fast fro an Anglia of course. But Saloon Cars are kind of Modsports and the track was probably slightly different.
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Gerard, I think if you took a look at my Anglia you would be surprised at how "unmodified" it is. It still has a leaf spring rear end and front suspension similar to how it came out of the factory complete with steering box also still powered by a Kent pushrod engine. All of my races were done on Yokohama road legal tyres.
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Balls of steel (knob of butter) They're Asking For Larkins. ( Proper beer) not you're Eurofizz crap. Hace más calor en España. Me han conocido a hablar un montón cojones! Send any cheques and cash to PO box 1 Lagos Nigeria Africa !
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22 Sep 2017, 10:53 (Ref:3769242)
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#169
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U2TC 2007. it was about £500 a race then as well.
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22 Sep 2017, 11:30 (Ref:3769249)
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Maybe it's time for a new forum JT. Instead of historic racing today it could be called historic racing ten or twenty years ago. Everything was so much better then
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22 Sep 2017, 11:34 (Ref:3769250)
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Noticed that it wasn't the Cortinafest that it has now become and there were far more Alfas entered. How did the race go, Joe?
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22 Sep 2017, 14:05 (Ref:3769258)
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#172
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I can't remember much Peter . . . aside brakes fading toward the end as I still had steel wheels on from Goodwood a few weeks prior, no air gets through them.
It must have been cheaper & easier then as I've not done GW/Spa both in the same year since!
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22 Sep 2017, 15:49 (Ref:3769280)
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#173
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Originally Posted by one-two
Maybe it's time for a new forum JT. Instead of historic racing today it could be called historic racing ten or twenty years ago. Everything was so much better then
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It was, at least you could do it on a shoestring in comparison with today.
Racing has always been expensive but with newer regulations regarding towing/fuel costs/ever increasing entry fees/silly historic car prices etc the "normal" working bloke with a mortgage can't afford to have a go.
I counted myself very lucky in that I had most of my racing entries and parts paid for by sponsors that I picked up along the way, there was no way that I could have done any of it "competitively" on my own unless I was really silly and re-mortgaged my house ! like some that I know ! who lost everything thinking that they were the next Max Verstappen 
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Balls of steel (knob of butter) They're Asking For Larkins. ( Proper beer) not you're Eurofizz crap. Hace más calor en España. Me han conocido a hablar un montón cojones! Send any cheques and cash to PO box 1 Lagos Nigeria Africa !
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22 Sep 2017, 16:00 (Ref:3769281)
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Gordon I do believe you about your Anglia stage of development. As you can guess, from the list you publish I do know many competitors (mainly French) and their cars. For instance, Christophe's 911 was something like full Grp 5, Claude's 2002 running a M12/7, Olivier's Camaro a light Group 2 and so on… Mainly on slicks. From my understanding, our french Saloon Cars could be compared to your Modsports. Is that right?
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22 Sep 2017, 16:21 (Ref:3769288)
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Originally Posted by Gerard C
Gordon I do believe you about your Anglia stage of development. As you can guess, from the list you publish I do know many competitors (mainly French) and their cars. For instance, Christophe's 911 was something like full Grp 5, Claude's 2002 running a M12/7, Olivier's Camaro a light Group 2 and so on… Mainly on slicks. From my understanding, our french Saloon Cars could be compared to your Modsports. Is that right?
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Probably (and more beside) ! I think that the French race that I entered they took my money after looking at my car and decided that I would be down at the blunt end of the race, some of the cars had tyres wider than my car 
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Balls of steel (knob of butter) They're Asking For Larkins. ( Proper beer) not you're Eurofizz crap. Hace más calor en España. Me han conocido a hablar un montón cojones! Send any cheques and cash to PO box 1 Lagos Nigeria Africa !
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22 Sep 2017, 18:14 (Ref:3769322)
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Certainly they did ! Sorry for that.
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23 Sep 2017, 14:57 (Ref:3769427)
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Blimey, my first time at Spa
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24 Sep 2017, 17:49 (Ref:3769613)
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I remember the £500 U2TC Spa entry fee, just about my limit at that time. When it went up to £1000+ I decided that my happy times in U2TC were over. A most enjoyable race and series despite the fairly pathetic results I scored. But I was driving the GTA from London to Spa and my GTA's state of tune was nowhere near Dominik Roschman ... and neither was my driving skill ! We just enjoyed ourselves at a great track.
Nick
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25 Sep 2017, 07:03 (Ref:3769691)
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Completely agree Nick, I'm in exactly the same boat. It strikes me that more , shall we say, 'Gentleman drivers' in 'period correct' cars stay at home than actually contest now.
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Originally Posted by apriliadriver
I remember the £500 U2TC Spa entry fee, just about my limit at that time. When it went up to £1000+ I decided that my happy times in U2TC were over. A most enjoyable race and series despite the fairly pathetic results I scored. But I was driving the GTA from London to Spa and my GTA's state of tune was nowhere near Dominik Roschman ... and neither was my driving skill ! We just enjoyed ourselves at a great track.
Nick
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