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Old 5 Oct 2020, 19:08 (Ref:4008737)   #51
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What's the weather like where you are ? It's pouring down here in Dorset !

It'd been fluffy white clouds and bright sun until about 5pm when we had a brief shower.......
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Old 5 Oct 2020, 20:29 (Ref:4008744)   #52
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It'd been fluffy white clouds and bright sun until about 5pm when we had a brief shower.......
We had a brief shower that lasted for about 12 hours...
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Old 5 Oct 2020, 20:42 (Ref:4008746)   #53
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Your picture takes me back to the 1995 Finals meeting. After dry practise, the first race just about ran in the dry but as the second race started the rain began hammering down to carry on for the rest of the afternoon. The highlight was an Austin Healey race with the big Healeys proceeding around the circuit in a series of ever more lurid slides. Great shot by the way !
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Old 6 Oct 2020, 06:22 (Ref:4008790)   #54
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Thanks Ched! I'll try to stick a few more up as and when work permits.
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Old 6 Oct 2020, 07:56 (Ref:4008797)   #55
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Old 6 Oct 2020, 19:03 (Ref:4008884)   #56
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Old 6 Oct 2020, 19:35 (Ref:4008892)   #57
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Great stuff Bel, keep them coming !
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Old 7 Oct 2020, 06:57 (Ref:4008947)   #58
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Old 7 Oct 2020, 10:29 (Ref:4008974)   #59
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Great comparison to this year's superb artwork by Brian James.
https://castlecombecircuit.co.uk/off...all-metal-sign

Sunday cancellation was a real shame after all the work put in for the 70th anniversary, and the additional effort to meet current requirements.
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Old 7 Oct 2020, 11:23 (Ref:4008978)   #60
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Great comparison to this year's superb artwork by Brian James.
https://castlecombecircuit.co.uk/off...all-metal-sign

Sunday cancellation was a real shame after all the work put in for the 70th anniversary, and the additional effort to meet current requirements.

Indeed –*just with added puddles!
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I've had some unpleasant races at Combe in the wet, but that looks pretty dire.....nd for them to cancel Sunday it must have been horrendous.

In Lincolnshire we were on slicks all day. Just sayin'
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Yes for first time in 50 years I was glad when I got called in to change driver.I must say the driving standards in the GTSCC race were very very good. Some excellent drivers out there.
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Old 7 Oct 2020, 15:51 (Ref:4009009)   #64
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Love the shot of the Frazer Nash. Where is that at Castle Combe ?
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Old 7 Oct 2020, 19:09 (Ref:4009046)   #67
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Approaching Tower. I've always liked those monopostos.
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I've had some unpleasant races at Combe in the wet, but that looks pretty dire.....nd for them to cancel Sunday it must have been horrendous.

In Lincolnshire we were on slicks all day. Just sayin'
The first meeting of the season was cancelled in 2016. I seem to remember the solar panels on the infield were blamed for not allowing water to run off into the infield.
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The only other meeting I've attended that was abandoned due to rain was an HSCC one at Silverstone in 1985 or '86. Rivers across the track, and I think they decided to call it a day when cars started going off on their warm-up laps, one a Lister Jaguar and another Colin Parry-Williams in his Lola T70 Spyder, which clouted the barrier at Maggots right where I was standing. No PA or announcements, so we only realised it was abandoned when the marshals started trudging off home.




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Old 9 Oct 2020, 08:15 (Ref:4009278)   #72
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The only other meeting I've attended that was abandoned due to rain was an HSCC one at Silverstone in 1985 or '86. Rivers across the track, and I think they decided to call it a day when cars started going off on their warm-up laps, one a Lister Jaguar and another Colin Parry-Williams in his Lola T70 Spyder, which clouted the barrier at Maggots right where I was standing. No PA or announcements, so we only realised it was abandoned when the marshals started trudging off home.
I was there sitting in the assembly area in our F5000 Trojan getting extremely wet!! Believe they sent a couple of experienced drivers out in the safety car to assess the situation (Simon Hadfield possibly one of them?).
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I was there sitting in the assembly area in our F5000 Trojan getting extremely wet!! Believe they sent a couple of experienced drivers out in the safety car to assess the situation (Simon Hadfield possibly one of them?).
Tim, good to meet someone who remembers that day. I will have photos of your Trojan somewhere. You would have been up against the F1 McLarens of John Foulston and James Wallis I think. Phil
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Tim, good to meet someone who remembers that day. I will have photos of your Trojan somewhere. You would have been up against the F1 McLarens of John Foulston and James Wallis I think. Phil
Oops! I'm !0 years out as I think the meeting I was thinking of must have been in the 2000s!!!
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