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Old 15 Apr 2015, 08:50 (Ref:3527595)   #1
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VSCC 'Spring Start' Silverstone 2015

A one-day event, this coming Saturday 18th April 2015. Don't think that it has previously been listed (apologies if it has) but if anyone is interested the link to the relevant VSCC page is below:

http://www.vscc.co.uk/page/events?eventID=917

Also includes FISCAR.
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Old 15 Apr 2015, 11:27 (Ref:3527634)   #2
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Have ticket, will be there despite the road closures.
Hopefully the bitter wind of last weekend will have died down a tad.
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Old 15 Apr 2015, 11:45 (Ref:3527640)   #3
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Road closures? Not having been to Silverstone this year is there anything of particular note?
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Old 15 Apr 2015, 12:11 (Ref:3527648)   #4
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Road closures? Not having been to Silverstone this year is there anything of particular note?
no access off the M40 onto the A43, 18-21st, according to signs I saw last weekend.
Also the A420 Oxford to Swindon has a long detour.
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Old 15 Apr 2015, 14:33 (Ref:3527689)   #6
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I will be there and really looking forward to it. Thanks for the roadworks update - I would have come that way from west London. I will come off at Bicester instead
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Old 15 Apr 2015, 19:56 (Ref:3527768)   #7
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I will be there with camera poised, so if you let me know I'll poise it your way.

If the weather is as nice as it was today at Silverstone it will be very 'sun screen' kind of a day.

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Old 16 Apr 2015, 07:02 (Ref:3527859)   #8
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Yep 27 cars for the Abecassis Race, so should be good if they all turn up and survive qually. FISCAR have been allocated garages so hopefully a lot of our entries will be in them; at least I've asked them to! Should be a great meeting all round.
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Lots of lovely cars, both in the paddock and on track.
If there had been less of a chill wind blowing it would have been even more enjoyable.

Good to have a chat with Mr Turner and the Abecassis race did him proud.

Will post a few photos from the meeting later.
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Old 19 Apr 2015, 06:26 (Ref:3528797)   #10
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John, kind remarks, thanks. Lots of great cars in the paddock but such a busy morning that I didn't have time to dwell on them or even snap them. The late arrival of the Grist HWM meant me rushing around to get all the other drivers to sign agreement to allow Matt to join our grid. They will probably regret that since from the back row he managed to come through the pack to win. There were some great drives though. James Cottingham's opening stint was stunning with his Dad's Ferrari, taking the lead from the start and opening it up with loads of visible arm twirling and making the car dance, Tom Walker was mighty early on with his Allard J2R Le Mans (which he calls 'The Shed' due to its fantastic age patina!) to emerge for a while in 2nd place after a fantastic dice for that position with several other cars, Jonathan Abecassis in his Austin Healey was very competitive, as was the always on form Andy Sharp in his DB2. A brilliant second half drive by Chris Ward taking over the Gordini from owner Eddie McGuire was scintillating and took him to 4th, just half a second short of Andy and less than 8 seconds covered the first 4 cars after 30 mins (including a pit stop) of racing. Sadly Charly Willems had to retire his HW Alta Jaguar before the end of the first lap, the second year running that he has brought that wonderful car over from Germany and failed to complete a racing lap, and we also had two Austin Healeys's come together in Brooklands. Those apart, this was fantastic fun with good dicing down the field, and I thank all the competitors for making it so. I was particularly grateful to Justin Kennedy who allowed the famous ex Abecassis DB2 VMF 65 to be raced by Tony Green.

For the record, I had to change all the classes around on the day so, the class structure in the programme and on the results sheets is wrong, so completely forgiveable but I feel that I ought to point out that the fastest laps posted for the Ferrari and Gordini were by the James Cottingham and Chris Ward, not as stated.

Really look forward to some photos, John

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I wonder why there were no results sheet available for the Fiscar race, plenty for all other races, but not a single one for the Fiscar?

JT .........................? You naughty boy.

Great race/racing definitely the highlight of the day, plenty of snaps to choose from John. Well done.

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I rather think I pinched a lot of them, sorry about that, Bob although there were certainly some left in the box at the time. Also sorry we didn't get to chat longer.
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Not a great lover of Silverstone but had a good day, many great cars, some decent racing - agree that the Fiscar race was a highlight, well done John. A few sample photos from the races:
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John, kind remarks, thanks. Lots of great cars in the paddock but such a busy morning that I didn't have time to dwell on them or even snap them. The late arrival of the Grist HWM meant me rushing around to get all the other drivers to sign agreement to allow Matt to join our grid. They will probably regret that since from the back row he managed to come through the pack to win. There were some great drives though. James Cottingham's opening stint was stunning with his Dad's Ferrari, taking the lead from the start and opening it up with loads of visible arm twirling and making the car dance, Tom Walker was mighty early on with his Allard J2R Le Mans (which he calls 'The Shed' due to its fantastic age patina!) to emerge for a while in 2nd place after a fantastic dice for that position with several other cars, Jonathan Abecassis in his Austin Healey was very competitive, as was the always on form Andy Sharp in his DB2. A brilliant second half drive by Chris Ward taking over the Gordini from owner Eddie McGuire was scintillating and took him to 4th, just half a second short of Andy and less than 8 seconds covered the first 4 cars after 30 mins (including a pit stop) of racing. Sadly Charly Willems had to retire his HW Alta Jaguar before the end of the first lap, the second year running that he has brought that wonderful car over from Germany and failed to complete a racing lap, and we also had two Austin Healeys's come together in Brooklands. Those apart, this was fantastic fun with good dicing down the field, and I thank all the competitors for making it so. I was particularly grateful to Justin Kennedy who allowed the famous ex Abecassis DB2 VMF 65 to be raced by Tony Green.

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Really look forward to some photos, John
As I was in Race Control I saw very little of the racing but I was glad to see all your efforts had been rewarded after Matt had a good race!
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A few from yesterday, including Rudolf Ernst's rather grand Stutz Bearcat.







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Great meeting and great photos from Brands and Percy, do either of you by any chance have a photo of car 62 in practice 8/race 11.

It is a dark grey Riley special, much appreciated if you have, as it was first time for it at Silverstone since 1988!
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Great meeting and great photos from Brands and Percy, do either of you by any chance have a photo of car 62 in practice 8/race 11.

It is a dark grey Riley special, much appreciated if you have, as it was first time for it at Silverstone since 1988!
Sorry - I missed both of those sessions while wandering the paddock
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