Well, it’s cold anyway, especially in the wastelands of Mallory Park race circuit. We were racing there at the weekend, on Sunday, and I spent the Saturday morning fettling the Fury (having completely ignored it since Snetterton) and we set off for Mallory so as to arrive at about 5pm when they’d let us into the circuit. Mallory is unique in that you have to drive round the circuit (actually in the wrong direction) so as to get to the paddock. Hence, you have to queue up outside for ages. Continue reading “April is the cruelest month…”
Category: Racing
Racing the Fury
A lonely race
A quick post to link to a video of the race at the weekend. This is some “highlights” from my race at the weekend although it could hardly be called exciting. Mind you, its looks fascinating compared to the GP at the weekend.
Two hats Tim
I knew it was a bad idea. I got home on Sunday from just about the most successful race weekend ever. Now I’m in a bit of a quandary as it’s going to be tough to get the J15 up to the performance of the Fury, at least in the short term.
Birkettastic
Last weekend was the Birkett and we were up again racing in team Eastern Delight (we decided to give it a better (?) name this time). The Birkett is a unique event being, if you don’t know, a 6 hour relay race for teams of up to 6 cars and drivers. In this week’s Autosport Marcus Pye got it just right in his column where he says:
End of the season
A little vignette of an RGB/750 club paddock:
I took my cordless drill to Mallory, as I always do. I didn’t use it though. However, two other people borrowed it:
- Adrian was having cat problems, again, and used the drill to hack out the remains of yet another expensive waste of money
- Andy borrowed the drill to help him repair the bonnet of an MG Midget that was racing that day, although clearly not in an RGB race.
I don’t know about you, but I think that’s great.
Down to the wire
It was time for another race meeting, this time at Snetterton. I decided not to go testing, although I did spend the test day there with Dan who was out for the first time in his RGB race car.
Silverstone again
Well, it was time to be back at Silverstone again for the club’s annual festival meeting, which essentially means that all the club formulae are represented which means loads and loads of cars and only one race each. Unless, of course, you’re an RGBer and you’ve been let into Bikesports for a cheap(er) race than usual. I didn’t have time to do any testing, so that would have to do for me.
Malloried again
We’re just back from a rather frustrating weekend at Mallory. I should have known better really. We didn’t go there last year as it was right in the middle of the time when Anthea was being replumbed. However, a lot of the RGBers that did go didn’t have a fun time of it. Continue reading “Malloried again”
So much for a quiet weekend
This year doesn’t seem to have been exactly peaceful on track, does it? Especially considering the catalyst debâcle that’s still rumbling on underneath RGB. That lost me the first two races of the season and it all looked as though I was going to lose another one this weekend.
Getting rained on again
It’s a long way to Anglesey, a really long way.
We set off at 1830 on Thursday evening and got to the circuit at about 0015. Friday was a test day and we were expecting to find a mostly empty paddock. As it was, just about the entire 750 club had clearly decided that some testing was in order and the paddock was already absolutely packed.