HSCC Finals

[Rudernst]

wottt ?

no thread ?

cool event, I love the "school is over" athmosphere

will race my Ralt RT1 in CF3 and DBT

have loaned somer other cars out

RE

[brands]

One of the best meetings of the year.

Entry list http://www.hscc.org.uk/images/Provis..._Finals_V2.pdf

Timetable http://www.hscc.org.uk/images/Provis...s_Meetings.pdf

Race 6 will be of interest here

[dikko]

Historic Formula Ford have 48 cars entered......

We go into the last race at Silverstone with nearly 50 entrants... and we are going to fit them all in.

2 qualis and top & bottom of each quali race each other plus some! A mini Walter Hayes for historics no less.
Come and join us. Room for 20 more!

We have a format that we hope will work and fit all who enter and if it does we'll use it at some of our popular events next year. Anyone thinking of joining us is welcome to more information or see us at one of the winter shows.

[apriliadriver]

I am really impressed by the FF entry. Well done ! The Historic Road Sports entry is, ahem, more modest at 20+ but good for us at the end of the season. My Chev Camaro is in 'Class A' which is blessed by five other competitors ... about the most this year.

Forecast is dry all day, overcast and 11C ('feels like 8C') according to the Met Office. That's more like Silverstone in the Summer.

As Rudernst says, the end-of-term feeling - last chance to meet some of the HRS regulars before April 2016 ....
Nick

[percy]

I'll be there for much of the day with my box-brownie trying to get some decent snaps.

[Chigley]

You've got the Jag F type R as a safety/pace car

[dikko]

Chigley, we hope you watch our races without starting your 'F' type...

Have a good day.

[Chigley]

Originally Posted by Chigley

You've got the Jag F type R as a safety/pace car

Revision 1: No Jag.

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by Chigley

Revision 1: No Jag.

Sure the MGCC would lend you their 2005 MGZS Safety Car. Room for 3 observers in that.....

[percy]

The 'New' Jaguar F-Type...

[grantp]

Originally Posted by percy

The 'New' Jaguar F-Type...

OK, who washed the Jag and why did it shrink?

[brands]

Originally Posted by percy

The 'New' Jaguar F-Type...

It was certainly flying leading the DBT around

[brands]

Some excellent racing today.
A tad chilly on the Luffield terrace and it was a good job the cars in the final race had headlights.

[grantp]

The HFF "Final" seemed to have extraordinarily close finished for first and second and then third and fourth.

The result as first published seemed to suggest a deadheat for first and second.

Presumably some events earlier in the day led to the reduced race times?

[brands]

Originally Posted by grantp

The HFF "Final" seemed to have extraordinarily close finished for first and second and then third and fourth.

The result as first published seemed to suggest a deadheat for first and second.

Presumably some events earlier in the day led to the reduced race times?

The HFF qually race had 2 red flags, the HFF final another.
The second qually race red flag involved removing 6 broken cars and then treating the track for spillages at Brooklands. The stoppage in the final was out of my sight but took as long to clear up.
Great work by the marshals and recovery crews.

[grantp]

Originally Posted by brands

The HFF qually race had 2 red flags, the HFF final another.
The second qually race red flag involved removing 6 broken cars and then treating the track for spillages at Brooklands. The stoppage in the final was out of my sight but took as long to clear up.
Great work by the marshals and recovery crews.

Oh dear.

One wonders what antics the players will get up to during the WHT.

Still, good revision course for the marshals I assume, presuming no participants were (seriously) hurt in the process.

[brands]

Originally Posted by grantp

Oh dear.

One wonders what antics the players will get up to during the WHT.

Still, good revision course for the marshals I assume, presuming no participants were (seriously) hurt in the process.

All walked away from the Brooklands accident, the only one I saw.
I hope it was the same elsewhere.

[JasperClan]

Originally Posted by brands

Some excellent racing today.
A tad chilly on the Luffield terrace and it was a good job the cars in the final race had headlights.

Yes we had lights but I would have preferred a full length race in daylight.

Safety car was needed and it was not helped by the falling light conditions making the safety car boards difficult to pick out. May be a case for illuminated boards in the future. Also a larger set of flashing lights on the safety car would have been be useful.

I'm not bitter really as I had a good race.

[Chigley]

Also a larger set of flashing lights on the safety car would have been be useful.

The lights are loaned to the club by Julian Floyd who also had his own meeting to run at Oulton Park (VW Funcup). I'm exceedingly grateful to him for the lights otherwise we would have been using the hazard lights on my Civic R and they are not the largest nor brightest compared to today's standards.

It was certainly flying leading the DBT around

The original plan was for the DBT to go round to the grid and then have two pace laps before their rolling start. As the meeting was tight for time the DBT volunteered to only have have one flying pace lap. Hence the reason we flew round to try to give them some warmth in the brakes and tyres. Well maybe just take the chill off them. OK the grid was strung out at the start but with only one lap of the National circuit slowing to pack the grid up was a non starter. Our brakes and tyres were quite warm.

[Chigley]

OK, who washed the Jag and why did it shrink?

HSCC only found out at Thursday lunchtime that the Jag had been spirited away to go to a Jaguar event somewhere. There was a chance that the club could have hired a Porsche but there was insufficient time for the authorisations to be arranged, hence this morning it was use my car at no notice or run the meeting without a SC.

[grantp]

Well I think it's very generous of you to put your P&J on the line like that Ian.

New tyres on Monday?

[Mike Bell]

I can see the ad in next HSCC mag- 'Safety car team wanted. Must have own car'......

[midgetman]

That really is 'above and beyond' and shows why this is such a great sport.

[Colin McKay]

Good for you Ian, the very least the club can do is buy you some new rubber

[jodi]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

I can see the ad in next HSCC mag- 'Safety car team wanted. Must have own car'......

Although, considering we just received the October 2015 issue today, and they're promoting JHC race in Nurburgring and Oulton Park which happened in August, they'll probably leave it until once the season's started again.