Auto Italia - Oulton 13th July

[PaulPerkins]

Finals arrived this morning:

Fosters Circuit.

Sign-on 7:45.

Qualifiers:
o T Carzzzzz (20 laps)
o Autoitalia
o Opel Telecom FFord B
o Zip Formula
o Opel FFord A
o T Carzzzz
o Ferrari
o Alfa E&F
o Zip Formula
o Alfa A, B, C & D

Lunch

Races:
o Autoitalia
o Opel Telecom FFord B
o T Carzzzz
o Opel FFord A
o Ferrari
o Alfa E&F
o Zip Formula
o Alfa A, B, C & D
o T Carzzzz

Who else on the board is going?

[AndyF]

T-cars AND Zip Formula!!!

Rather you than me

[PaulPerkins]

Hmmm...never quite understood it. Put a 15 year old in a Nova SRi in the ASDA car park and they'll drive like a complete lunatic.

Put the same kid in a purpose-build high(ish) performance racecar on a circuit and they drive like a fart in a collander.

Some things in life puzzle me...

[Stacy]

Originally posted by PaulPerkins

Who else on the board is going? [/B]

I'm testing at Oulton on Friday morning - got to bed a few sets of brakes in.

Orange Mazda

Not racing Sat I'm afraid.

Stacy

[PaulPerkins]

That's a long way to come to bed in some brakes Have fun!

(BTW, didn't I used to work with you in the hottest ex-milking shed in the world - BGT @ Staines?)

[Stacy]

Originally posted by PaulPerkins
That's a long way to come to bed in some brakes Have fun!

(BTW, didn't I used to work with you in the hottest ex-milking shed in the world - BGT @ Staines?)

The cars in Northwich at the moment, so mountains and mohammed and all that..

Ah, the Depot. Those were the days, presume you worked for Logica ?

I'll send you a PM.

Cheers

Stacy

[Dave Brand]

Kaybee & I will be there......but then, you knew that,didn't you?

[PaulPerkins]

Andy,

Originally posted by AndyF
T-cars AND Zip Formula!!!

Rather you than me

I have to admit that I have completely changed my mind about T Cars!

I don't know whether it's because we are now a good way through the season, but the racing is tight and they seem to be getting more and more competitive.

At Oulton this weekend, we had loads of argy-bargy and each race had lots of racing all the way down the field. Great stuff!

It was also good to see Anna Waleska getting better. Although she is much slower than the rest of the field she is improving noticably with each race.

The highlights were the Rose/Wilson/Hoy battle where Phil Rose ended up *very* backwards and ending up in around 6th place, only to fight back to second; and then there was poor little Jonathan Kennard at the end who went agricultural, tried to get off the green stuff by flooring it only to realise that spinning wheels + soft ground = beached car. He then flung his door open (which promptly sprung right back in his face), leapt out of the car and then proceeded to kick it in true John Cleese style. Then of course we had the obligatory throwing of gloves ceremony. Poor lamb!

And Zip Formula! Wow! Mucho-smasho!! Out of the front 4 cars, 2 had front wings smashed up, and a third had a bust rear-wing. And again, the racing was great! I think there'll be a future for Zip.

In all a great day!

[AndyF]

Glad you enjoyed it Paul. Have seen the T-Cars before, and they can provide really close racing! However, it's pot-luck - you might get one really great race and then a real procession.