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20 Feb 2009, 21:25 (Ref:2401060)
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Deer, deer what a busy day!
OK, extremely bad taste but someone had to do it
 BARC general testing today at Thruxton provided more than its usual crop of spills, spins and broken cars. They were in the ditches, climbing the armco, getting beached, performing very artistic spins (shame about the technical merit), playing hide and seek with wheels from their meccano kits, deciding the engine wasn't good enough and tried to bury it in a field and then picked on the wild life and tried to take a venison joint home. Still a good and busy day, thanks to Post 11 & 14 for the entertainment though venison will be off my menu for a bit. Glad to know that all the drivers involved were OK, a couple of cars will need a bit more than a polish but unfortunately the deer became a casualty. |
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20 Feb 2009, 22:12 (Ref:2401081)
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Oh deer.
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20 Feb 2009, 22:15 (Ref:2401083)
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What do you call a deer with no eyes?
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20 Feb 2009, 22:17 (Ref:2401084)
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No eye-deer.
Hope the marshals were better prepared for their start of season than the drivers and wildlife by the sound of it. |
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20 Feb 2009, 22:28 (Ref:2401092)
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What do you call a dead deer with only one eye?
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20 Feb 2009, 23:45 (Ref:2401124)
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21 Feb 2009, 09:56 (Ref:2401291)
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21 Feb 2009, 10:20 (Ref:2401300)
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21 Feb 2009, 12:07 (Ref:2401337)
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There are some photos on the Castle Combe Forum in the photography part of the test day. http://www.racecar.net/castlecombefo...?TOPIC_ID=3266
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21 Feb 2009, 14:39 (Ref:2401394)
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Blimey, it was so busy that I had to 'do' running and everything!
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21 Feb 2009, 19:27 (Ref:2401484)
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22 Feb 2009, 13:13 (Ref:2401821)
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I took the kids up for the day for a picnic and run around. I saw Mr Jackson and Mr Harris with flags in their hands at the chicane and had a good chat with them during one of the many red flag periods!
Lovely day, hope it's not the only sunny day at Thruxton this year. |
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23 Feb 2009, 10:15 (Ref:2402281)
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Hopefully the season has peaked early for me. Otherwise I am in for a very very long season! |
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23 Feb 2009, 10:16 (Ref:2402283)
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I think the 'change of surface' flag can now be re-christened as the 'road kill' flag!
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23 Feb 2009, 19:43 (Ref:2402649)
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That was one very busy day, but good practice, one very lucky Formula Renault driver the deer took his wing mirror off so couldnt have been far from his head at over 130mph I would guess.
Norbert I had it as Post 14: 3 Post 12 :2! |
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24 Feb 2009, 09:28 (Ref:2402985)
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I am glad Trevor had managed to man Post 14 otherwise I would have been 2 stone lighter with all the running I would have had to have done. Well done to you and Ash though. Post 14 hardly ever gets hit and then when you 2 are there it gets hit twice in one day! |
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24 Feb 2009, 12:55 (Ref:2403107)
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Ahem, the cripple did a bit a running as well, admitted only short range
It was all Norbert's fault in any event, as soon as he touched the yellow flag a strange magnetic force field was created.
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25 Feb 2009, 16:53 (Ref:2404000)
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25 Feb 2009, 17:03 (Ref:2404011)
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Some very nice action pictures.
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