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A big thank you from the RAF Motorsports RAF Benevolent Fund Team to Claire for the opportunity to run in the event and for the very generous donations from all of you at the circuit over the weekend.
Having done the Birkett 6 hr since 2005 we really like endurance formats as they take the team ethos aspect of clubman racing to the max; an important factor to our aim to show motorsport as a true team effort. We had 5 support crew (glad you liked the hats Claire - I can sort out one for you if you want!!) whom were fellow drivers from our racing series which speaks volumes. 2 of us who were drivers on the day were Team managers and support crew in the Birkett team last year so we really enjoy the format!! It was my first race outing on the 300 and what a circuit. The racing was fair and I was relaxed by the Caterhams who raced sensibly all day (loved the formation driving early on). I would add that I find the quantity of LOTUS sevenesque cars at the BIRKETT to be too many and whilst we would welcome the opportunity to race in a race within a race in our cars increased complexity can be a risk. We were very pleased with the cars performance and I was very pleased not to break a good friends MINI! We would love to come back and such was the friendliness of the format and the paddock, we would also love the opportunity to bring our race series to run a couple of rounds over the weekend (interested Claire?) Excellent weekend and thanks again for the opportunity and the support. Brian To just to re-emphasise what the charity is all about I will leave you with a snap shot of the good work of the RAF Benevolent fund: Since its foundation in 1919, the RAF Benevolent Fund has been there, through thick and thin, supporting the RAF family. It is there for all serving and former members of the RAF as well as their partners and dependent children. There are 3 main goals: To maintain and preserve the RAF Memorial in London on behalf of the nation. To provide assistance to the RAF family, when they are in need. To support the morale and wellbeing of the serving RAF. They provide a spectrum of care, supporting everyone from children growing up on RAF stations, to those serving today to keep our skies safe, to the veterans who fought for our freedom. It could be supplying an electric wheelchair for a Polish pilot who fought in the Second World War, supporting the widow and children of an RAF sergeant killed in action, or providing practical help to a young airman injured in Afghanistan. |
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Seconded!! Even the "I'm no bodys" etc.
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Thank you so much for your kind words regarding the briefing....you can waffle on for hours...I probably do, but I am proud of the briefings that I do...I had a very good teacher We are so glad you enjoyed coming and you are most welcome and please drop me an e mail re your proposal with regards to your series ta Claire PS, I think I tell my son too much, we were just playing the playstation, and we are both driving GT40s at Circuit De Catalunya, when all of a sudden he says "That was four wheels off...Black and white flag and one more of them and you are up to Race Control!" (he is EIGHT!!!) |
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And talking of them blatting past, one of my two 'whoops, that was close' moments was when 3 of them closed in at end Bentley straight. Think I let two though after esses, but third was lagging a bit so decided to get into Murrays before him. As usual in those circumstances almost outbraked myself and finished up running off onto the dirt with much opposite lock applied. Thought I was rallying again so kept foot in and shot out after kerb and he still wasn't past! Soon powered away on the straight, though.... The other close call was when caught the Starion too quickly going into Coram. No room inside so decided to drive round him, which was fine except for fact that track was filthy and had no grip whatsoever! Much arm twirling...... BTW Don't tell Cliff as don't think he saw either incident...... |
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Was that the same Starion the spun and clouted my drivers door ?
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I heard that the Spanish Starion span as it was right hand drive and the driver had never driven a rhd car before, so tried to change gear with the door handle, which didn't work for some strange reason
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I haven't tried that in the 40 plus years of driving left hookers, however I do drive one in the UK and I have been known to turn out of my house and drive down the right hand side of the road
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Has anyone got any incar footage of what happened to our Aston when Joe came off at Agostinis during the first Qualifying session? only we still cannot work out why this happened.
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Perhaps the satnav needs updating, I had to do that to mine !
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Fab weekend, thanks to everyone!
Did anyone get any pics of the BBQ by the way? Thanks to everyone who donated - don't know how much we got for the RAF (sealed bucket! ) but I know we got just over £60 for Les' niece, so well done everyone! Mike, I hope you know that I'm liable to get excluded the next time I go to post as my jacket absolutely reeks of booze! |
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I can think of a certain ZS180 and a couple of ZR105s that would be great additions to the field and are effectively raring to go. So updating the entry criteria would be great, make it a clubman race rather than a historic clubman race. The problem with inviting the Academy or something like that, is the type of driving it invites. There is nothing wrong with Caterhams per se, as last weekend proved, as long as they are driven in sympathy with the event. However, get lots of them together and that's when problems occur. IMHO of course... |
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