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21 Oct 2002, 12:51 (Ref:409229)
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sadly i couldnt make it but I know several of you must have raced there. Julius can normally be relied upon to put on a great meeting? certainly I presume the weather on Sunday must have been similiar to last year!!
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22 Oct 2002, 09:58 (Ref:410057)
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Simon, I was there with Les Goble and the Cortina, it was brass monkeys on Sunday morning, got a nats warmer until the wind picked up, and started raining after 59 minutes of the hour race.
a good race I thought, albeit with a delayed start under the safety car, Normans mini died at the start and he got a good whack @ the left rear corner which smashed the subframe and sent his wheel on a run for freedom. . . .from the pit lane it looked like a bit of confusion after as a few cars dropped out the reserves wanted to get in . . . .but couldnt (clerk of the course ruling) The Mustangs ran away with it really, hardly surprising when your tearing down a runway for half the lap, the Falcon was good to watch, bloody fast in a straight line, then pirouetting round the bends :-) . . . . as for us, after qualifying 17th (a PB @ Snett, 1:28:68) Les finished 10th and 3rd in class, not bad given the problems encountered with a dickie engine all season. roll on next spring . . . and its left me even more guilty for not having done any work on my own car! |
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22 Oct 2002, 10:07 (Ref:410061)
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I hope that the winter will sort all my gremlins out on the new car finally as this season has been one to forget for me! I hope to sell last years car and then I will be ready to start another project! I am starting to think about FIA MGB or a fifties saloon so the Top Hat weekends can be good double headers! Good to hear Les did well, one day I will give up my fascination with Alfa's and admit defeat and get a Lotus Cortina!!!
Snetterton has a habit of bringing the worst weather - I was at Silverstone on Saturday and it was bright but cold and I know a few where going on up to Snet the next day |
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22 Oct 2002, 11:07 (Ref:410094)
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yep, there where a few who looked like they had 50's saloons on board, JO/NW A35 for one. . . . .we discussed a 100E anglia as a possibility for a 50's saloon . . . .
as we left the weather deteriorated rapidly, the MG's racing must have had fun as it was chucking it down when they started. |
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